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El Salvador’s recognition of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in August 2018 was the third such change in Latin America following the end of the informal truce that had restrained the PRC’s diplomatic competition with Taiwan between 2008 and 2016. This pivot also precipitated expressions of concern from Washington, whose reaction to prior changes in diplomatic posture by the Varela government in Panama (June 2017) and the Medina government in the Dominican Republic (May 2018) had been more muted.

“They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work.”
– Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework (1975)
 
 

China’s expanding presence and inuence in Latin America is now widely recognized by political and business leaders and security professionals. In the last two decades, the nation’s trade with the region has expanded 18-fold to $314 billion, while its companies have become important partners and suppliers for rms operating there and key owners and operators of the region’s oilelds, mines, ports, telecommunications and electricity grids.

The U.S., Latin America and China know mercantilism well. Britishrestrictions on direct trade between its colonies and Europe to advantage itsown industry was a driving factor in the American Revolution.
The "Boston Tea Party," taught to U.S. children from grade school, was aniconic protest against British mercantilism. Similarly, for Latin Americans,Spain's use of mercantilist regulations, including the famous

Last week, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the majoritarian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’ passed three farming bills during the monsoon session of the Parliament. It was heralded as a “watershed” moment in the history of agriculture sector reforms by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The three bills are the repealed versions of the ordinances of the same that were brought in June 2020.

In April and May 2019, the world’s largest democracy held elections. More than 540 million voters, out of 900 million registered, cast ballots. The global press portrayed the election as a contest between the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress, though India is a multi-party parliamentary democracy. The BJP won an overwhelming majority and returned to power in Parliament.
 

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  Many do not know the difference between Hinduism and Hindutva, and so it is disturbing to read and hear about ‘Hindu fundamentalism’.

  The fact that several third world countries, especially in Asia, have experienced remarkably high rates of GDP growth has been a matter of much discussion. There has been talk of a development of “multi-polarity” in the world, of a shift in the balance of economic power from the West to the East, and of even an overtaking of the traditional metropolitan economies by the newly emerging ones.

Communal Violence in Muzaffarnagar Agrarian Transformation and Politics Jagpal Singh This paper is an integrated version of presentations made at the Centre for the Multi-level Federal Studies, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi in November 2013; Academic Committee’s Discussion Forum, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi in August 2014; and in Doon University in February 2015, Dehradun. I thank Balveer Arora, S V Reddy, Nandini and an anonymous referee for their helpful comments and suggestions.

For many of us, beef has become ‘news’ of unpleasant sort. There is now a forensic report after eight month from a lab in Mathura which claims that the meat found inside the lynched man, Mohammad Akhlaq’s home at Dadri “belonged to beef or a cow progeny”. It is in contrast with an earlier report by the Greater Noida Veterinary Officer which declared that the meat was mutton. Be it beef or mutton, no respectability is shown to the right to food, the notion of privacy and right to life of the citizens of India.

Let’s move beyond the problem of exports and transit to GST. This will reduce levies impacting inter-State goods movement

 
India’s merchandise exports have fallen over the last 16 months. Future prospects look bleak as ever due to sluggish global demand accentuated by a slowing China, and India being blocked out of regional trade deals such as TPP.