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Sweden beefs up Baltic Sea forces amid regional tensions
Sweden is beefing up its military presence in the Baltic Sea amid concerns over increased Russian activity in the region and heightened tensions in Belarus following a disputed election
1 min read26 Aug 2020China is buying American but not enough to it trade deal target
China continues to lag behind the pace of imports from the U.S. needed to meet the terms of the two nations’ trade deal, amid a rapidly worsening diplomatic standoff that’s sparking global fears of a new Cold War.
2 min read28 Jul 2020Opinion | The next cold war could centre around facial recognition tech
While the Chinese authorities are supportive of its use, US lawmakers are wary of privacy limits being breached
4 min read27 May 2019Opinion | The global consequences of a Sino-American cold war
If care is not taken to avert the ‘Thucydides Trap’, it could get worse than the US-Russia Cold War
4 min read21 May 2019US markets: Dow Jones sheds 400 points on Apple slide, trade woes
Apple shares fell 3.8% after reports that the company has cut production orders in recent weeks for all three iPhone models launched in September
2 min read20 Nov 2018Opinion | Mistaken criticism of the US’ foreign policy elite
Trump era is providing a case study in what happens when competence and respect for processthose underestimated qualities of the establishmentgo by the wayside, and policy is whipsawed by the impulses of an erratic president
4 min read5 Nov 2018Pawel Pawlikowski wins best director at Cannes for ‘Cold War’
The best actress award was given to Kazakh actress Samal Yeslyamova for playing a jobless single mother from post-Soviet Central Asia adrift in Moscow in Sergey Dvortsevoy's 'Ayka'
1 min read19 May 2018Chicken games
A game theorist would find striking similarities in the US-China trade war to two standard situationsthe game of chicken and the prisoners' dilemma
1 min read5 Apr 2018What Donald Trump can learn from Cold War before Vladimir Putin and Kim summits
What the Cold War meetings and Donald Trump's potential ones have in common is an open agenda and lack of the painstaking months of diplomatic preparation that precede summits with more formal, treaty signing goals
5 min read26 Mar 2018Donald Trump’s ‘space force’ idea comes as a cold war brews in space
Donald Trump says space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea
6 min read21 Mar 2018Popular Topics
Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared