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Will Xi play ball with Trump on Ukraine?

US president-elect Donald Trump has invited China’s president Xi Jinping to his inauguration on January 20 in a surprise move which appears to be part of a plan to involve Beijing in ceasefire negotiations in Ukraine.

Good immigration

This is bad news for those pushing nativist agendas but a welcome addition to the growing pool of evidence which shows that research and development (R&D), innovation, and the subsequent outcomes for multinational corporations (MNCs) are tied to liberal immigration policies. Just a few decades ago, emerging markets constituted a negligible share of global patent production.

The question Imran did not answer

This question, about whether he would condemn Chinese atrocities against the Uighur Muslims, effectively stood for whether Pakistan would stand with the liberal order and its centring of human rights, or with China. There was a time immediately after the collapse of the former USSR in 1989 that suggested that unlike international orders that have existed before, the liberal order would last forever.

Chinese telecom firm Huawei raided for tax evasion

A source said that the Income Tax department on Tuesday started the search operation which is still going on. The source said that the raids were being conducted in National Capital Region (NCR), Bengaluru and some other parts of the country.