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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.

Race with China~III

But the fertile central plain is both China‘s strength as well as its weakness. China feeds 23 per cent of the world‘s population from 7 per cent of arable land, by crowding some 2,000 human beings onto each square mile of cultivated earth in the valleys and flood plains. But the narrow coastal zone of prosperity also creates a deep social chasm because it profits hugely from maritime trade which does not flow to the rest of China.

CIA sets up new mission centre for China

The CIA's mission centers integrate key functions of operations and analysis, says former CIA China analyst Rodney Faraon, pointing to other key mission centers like counterterrorism and counterintelligence, the report said.

AUKUS narrative

True to form, China seems to have come up with a plan which it is implementing robustly through state-controlled as well as sympathetic mainstream media.

Race with China~II

To increase the ratio to the level of China‘s, India‘s fiscal architecture needs to be redesigned so as to encourage both domestic savings and investment, by optimally balancing the interest rates for both.