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US tariffs on Indian goods went 26% to 50% to 18% between April 2025 and February 2026. Where India's real opening lies amid the chaos.

Oil at $110, China's demographic collapse, the India-US AI talent corridor, an unplanned soft power moment, and why the rupee at 87 is not the real problem.

China's population fell for a fourth straight year in 2025, births hit a record low, youth unemployment sits near 17%, and the property sector is unwinding.

A 28-year-old Chinese man diagnosed with terminal cancer held a wedding ceremony with a life-size inflatable doll — and the photos went viral around the world.

Saudi Arabia posted job ads for eight new executioners in 2015 as beheadings surged — 85 executions by mid-May, nearly matching the whole of 2014.

In January 2015, Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal told Maria Bartiromo that oil would 'never' see $100 a barrel again — history had other plans.

By 2013, China's leaders faced a shrinking workforce, 360 million elderly by 2030, and a 118-to-100 gender skew — and reformers said the one-child policy's

In 2013, with growth halved and scandals mounting, the dragon-versus-elephant debate looked settled. A decade later, the race had a different leader.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak warned of 'horrible problems' as computing moves to the cloud: 'With the cloud, you don't own anything.

Apple paid $60 million in July 2012 to settle with Shenzhen Proview over the iPad trademark in China, clearing the way to sell the tablet in a key market.

No living writer knows censorship like Salman Rushdie. His decades-long argument: censorship protects the powerful, never the weak — and it has only

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng's 2012 escape to the US Embassy in Beijing put Hillary Clinton at the center of a human-rights versus geopolitics crisis.

In 2012 China tightened visa enforcement for foreigners — and Americans in Beijing found renewals, paperwork, and work rules suddenly much harder.

China's 'Interviews Before Execution' put death-row prisoners on prime-time TV for 40 million viewers. The show, its host Ding Yu, and why it vanished.

In 2011, historian Thant Myint-U argued Burma would be the hinge of 21st-century Asia — the new crossroads of China and India. His case, revisited.

In 2011, World Bank economist Justin Lin forecast China would be twice the US economy by 2030. The forecast's hit-and-miss record is instructive.

Groupon's China arm Gaopeng imploded months after launch — mass layoffs, a viral employee revolt, and 5,000 local clones. What the China debacle revealed.

In 2011, The Economic Times reported that Chinese executives in India — some 60,000 strong — were choosing to stay. Warmth, it turned out, was the pull.

Stephen Elop's leaked 'burning platform' memo of February 2011: the most brutally honest corporate memo ever, and the prelude to Nokia's Microsoft deal.

In January 2011, reports that China issued stapled visas to Arunachal residents sparked debate: a policy shift, or just another obstacle? History answered.

In 2011, China was pushing yuan trade settlement and 'dim sum' bonds. Would the renminbi displace the dollar? Fifteen years on, the answer is instructive.

In November 2010, Wen Jiabao and Vladimir Putin agreed that China-Russia trade would be settled in yuan and roubles instead of dollars.

Chinese acquisitions of Western firms make geopolitical headlines — but inside the acquired company, the experience is cultural and human before anything else.

On 11/11 — four singles — China celebrates singlehood with self-gifting. How Alibaba turned a joke holiday into a retail juggernaut.

While Obama toured Asia, David Cameron raced to China with Britain's largest-ever business delegation. The great powers were all courting the same customer.

At the 2010 Seoul G20, leaders chanted 'global rebalancing' — less reliance on American shoppers, more on China's. Luxury carmakers had already moved.