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24 July 2018

Export Or Perish: Why India must achieve a quantum jump in exports to drive growth

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Amitabh Kant Source Link A quantum jump in exports presents a tremendous opportunity for India. Nearly two-thirds of the world’s pro...

What the Falling Rupee Means for India's Economy

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Source Link A strengthening U.S. dollar is causing the rupee to depreciate as the cost of India's hefty, dollar-denominated oil im...

Taliban, Islamic State continue battle in northern Afghanistan

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BY BILL ROGGIO AND CALEB WEISS Source Link Scores of jihadists from both the Taliban and the Islamic State’s Khorasan province have ...

A double-edged sword: China and Pakistan link up with fibreoptic cable

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By Dr. James M. Dorsey Source Link

World knows if Pakistan behaves well, India’s hand is extended

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Written by Sushant Singh Source Link Former foreign secretary S Jaishankar Wednesday said India had spoken to Pakistan during his te...

Chinese Internet Companies Sharpen Their Competition at Home to Better Compete Abroad

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Source Link Chinese e-commerce startup Pinduoduo is seeking between $16 and $19 per share in its upcoming initial public offering on t...

How China's state-backed companies fell behind

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Source Link It was a prime candidate for overhaul. China Unicom's former chairman, Chang Xiaobing, was found guilty of taking brib...

Will China Undermine Trump's Iran Strategy?

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By Dina Esfandiary and Ariane M. Tabatabai Source Link In May, President Donald Trump announced that he was pulling the United State...

ZTE’s Ties to China’s Military-Industrial Complex Run Deep

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BY CHRISTOPHER BALDING Source Link The Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE has had U.S. sanctions against it lifted thanks, in part,...

The U.K. Hits a Chaotic Patch on the Road to Brexit

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Source Link Friction within the British government and between the government and Parliament will intensify as the date for Brexit in ...

All wild on Ukraine’s eastern front

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By LILY HYDE Source Link A smallholder farmer named Galina Korovaytseva had left it tethered in her yard late last month in Urzuf, a...

A Theory of Trump Kompromat

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By Adam Davidson Source Link The former C.I.A. operative Jack Devine watched Donald Trump ’s performance standing next to Vladim...

Why Did the European Commission Fine Google Five Billion Dollars?

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By John Cassidy Source Link According to some estimates , about eighty-five per cent of the world’s smartphones run on Google’s Andro...

SIPRI Yearbook 2018

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This text summarizes the findings of SIPRI’s Yearbook 2018. As in the past, the Yearbook provides original data on world military expendit...

Europe in the New Era of Great Power Competition

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By Alina Polyakova and Benjamin Haddad Source Link In the run-up to last week’s NATO summit and the meeting between U.S. President...

Macron and Salvini face off over Continent’s future Both want to redraw Europe’s political battle lines.

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By RYAN HEATH, MAÏA DE LA BAUME AND JACOPO BARIGAZZI Source Link Macron is a former investment banker who styles himself as a libera...

The Nato summit proves Europe doesn't get Trump – or the US

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Cas Mudde Source Link It was always going to be this way. Whatever Donald Trump ended up actually doing on his trip, Europe was go...

Putin and Trump Couldn’t Make the Relationship Work

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Leonid Bershidsky Source Link Given the weeks of apocalyptic speculation that preceded the Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and ...

NATO’s Challenge Is Germany, Not America

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By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Source Link During the recent NATO summit meeting, a rumbustious Donald Trump tore off a thin scab of nicetie...

Europe Misfires on Google A big regulatory penalty will solve no problems and create plenty of harm.

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Source Link In a long-awaited decision, the European Commission on Wednesday fined Alphabet Inc.'s Google a record 4.3 billion eur...

The Geopolitics of London: Or, How England Joined the World

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Deep Dive Source Link Editor’s note: Earlier this month, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced her plan to withdraw from the ...

The Nelson Mandela Lecture

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By Barack Obama Source Link On July 17th, former President Obama delivered the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, in Johannesburg, South...

How Much Damage Did Trump Cause in Helsinki?

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BY WILL INBODEN Source Link After U.S. President Donald Trump’s Helsinki debacle , it is time to take stock of what the substantive ...

NATO Already Vastly Outspends Russia. Its Problems Are Not About Money.

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BY WILLIAM D. HARTUN Source Link President Trump’s dismissal of Russian interference in the 2016 election – choosing to believe Vlad...

The simplest explanation of machine learning you’ll ever read

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Source Link You’ve probably heard of machine learning and artificial intelligence, but are you sure you know what they are? If you’re ...

For better electronic warfare, the Army and Marine Corps work together

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By: Mark Pomerleau  Source Link The Army and Marine Corps are hoping to cooperate more when it comes to electronic warfare and have a...

Ever heard of ‘deep fake’ technology? The phony audio and video tech could be used to blackmail US troops

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By: Kyle Rempfer   Source Link On June 7, during a training exercise in the Baltics , four U.S. Army Stryker vehicles driving along...

What if People Were Paid for Their Data?

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Source Link “Data Slavery.” Jennifer Lyn Morone, an American artist, thinks this is the state in which most people now live. To get fr...

Pentagon Plans to Publish Broad Artificial Intelligence Strategy ‘Within Weeks’

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By Jack Corrigan, Source Link A top Defense Department tech official on Tuesday said the Pentagon is weeks away from publishing its f...

When Drones Attack: The Threat Remains Limited

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Scott Stewart Commercial drones have become widely available, not only to hobbyists but also to those with more nefarious purposes.  T...
23 July 2018

Agni-V Canister Launch: Facts and Implications

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By Asma Khalid Source Link Three main nuclear players of Asia: China, India and Pakistan have established “triangular” dilemma due to...

Will India Nuclearize the BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile?

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By Joy Mitra Source Link Since the early 2000s, the BrahMos missile system has made India’s military arsenal a formidable one. A pro...

Dash onto Jarpal

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by Imran  Source Link There is this “Akram Raja Conference Room” at Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul. It’s a place of significance a...

SIPRI Annual Report: Flawed Analysis of Pakistan’s Nuclear Forces

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By Ahyousha Khan Source Link Since its inception Pakistan’s nuclear program became a victim of nuclear apartheid, even though the a...

Pakistan election: BBC interview with Dawn newspaper boss stirs controversy

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Source Link A BBC interview with the boss of Pakistan's leading English-language newspaper has stirred controversy a week before n...