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India – Seed-stage tech investments drove most of the growth in 2020 (ORF)

RAMRAJ PAI, SHRIYA NENE Despite the global health pandemic and its accompanying effects on the business and economic environment in 2020, impact enterprises received US $2.6...

Europe/China/CAI – European Parliament rejects CAI — with a clever fine print (ORF)

GAUTAM CHIKERMANE As predicted four months ago, the EU-China investment deal was dead on arrival. But it took almost five months to find the diplomatic ground...

India/Cybersecurity – The equities of telco cyber exploitation: 5G and the Huawei ban (ORF)

PUKHRAJ SINGH The Indian government has commenced the trials of 5G technology, but the Chinese company Huawei is notably absent from the list of approved vendors. https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-equities-of-telco-cyber-exploitation-5g-and-the-huawei-ban/

China/Space Competition – China’s Tianwen-1 Lands Rover on Mars (ORF)

RAJESWARI PILLAI RAJAGOPALAN A significant technological feat for China, Beijing’s accomplishment is also a reminder of the revved-up space competition among the major space powers. https://www.orfonline.org/research/chinas-tianwen-1-lands-rover-on-mars/

Democracy/Technology – Democracy: Debugging in process (ORF)

SUNEERA MADHOK It is important to harness informed technology so that we protect against and mitigate the very risks that are likely to play spoilsport...

USA/China – What Explains America’s Antagonism Toward China? (Project-Syndicate)

ZHANG JUN In the last few years, the view of China as a strategic rival has taken over the American political mainstream, with leaders largely...

Politics – Prosecute the Populists? (Project-Syndicate)

NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA As legal investigations of current and former populist leaders get underway, it is easy to succumb to schadenfreude. But the assumption that...

Germany – Germany’s Ineffective Green Unilateralism (Project-Syndicate)

HANS-WERNER SINN Climate change is a serious problem for humanity, but ambitious unilateral action by governments is self-defeating and will achieve little. Without binding international...

Ukraine – Zelenskyy Ready to Frame Poroshenko on Criminal Charges (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor On May 20, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a highly personalized form, threatened to send his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, to prison. https://jamestown.org/program/zelenskyy-ready-to-frame-poroshenko-on-criminal-charges/  

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