The International Push to Make Social Media Accountable
BY: RAJEEV SRINIVASAN PUBLISHED ON MARCH 07, 2021 There is a widespread sentiment that Big Tech has become far too dominant; these firms act as though national sovereignty were subservient to their interests. This is leading to a backlash. The most egregious offenders are the big social media companies: Facebook, Alphabet (Google), and Twitter. There […]
China Pakistan Economic Corridor: Disagreements that Illustrate the Brutality of Chinese Neo-Imperialism!
Chinese President Xi Jinping displayed his expansionist ambitions within a year of taking over as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) when he launched the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that traverses through Asia, Europe and Africa, connecting dozens of countries. The first country that partnered with China on the Belt […]
The God Vaccine? Is it the second coming?
BY: RAJEEV SRINIVASAN PUBLISHED ON NOVEMBER 15, 2020 The announcement by US giant Pfizer and startup BioNTech about their candidate vaccine for Covid-19 has been greeted with understandable euphoria, as people are chafing under the ‘new normal’ of lockdowns and restrictions. Indeed, markets cheered: stock market indices hit new highs; airline stocks soared; Zoom’s (an […]
Why Italy Should Reorient Towards the Indo-Pacific and India
BY: HARSH V. PANT PUBLISHED ON DECEMBER 20, 2021 The news that in November 2020 the Netherlands, a relatively small country of the European Union (EU), had issued its own official strategy on the Indo-Pacific region, generated much discussion around the world. The Netherlands was the third European country, after France (2018) and Germany (2020), […]