Best of BS Opinion: Liquor sale decisions, coronavirus outbreak, and more

From the reasons China’s unrelenting ascension is unstoppable and how its weak administrative  capability and poor institutional quality have stood in the way of India securing its full economic potential to why Karnataka CM's earlier decision to force migrants to stay back and work puts them in the same position as bonded labourers, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day.

Liquor sale decisions show policy arbitrariness, says our top edit. Read on...

Karnataka was wrong in treating migrants as bonded labourers, says our second edit. Click here to read...

China has the  wherewithal  to  set  corruption  aside  where  the country’s strategic interests lie, writes Parthasarathi Shome. Read on...

By further weakening the internal cohesion of the world’s leading powers, the Covid-19 crisis threatens to leave the world even more rudderless, writes Arvind Subramanian, a former chief economic adviser to the government of India; a non-resident senior fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics and a visiting lecturer at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Click here to read...

The virus lockdown exposes five regulatory hurdles holding back an important pillar of learning’s future, write Manish Sabharwal and Sumit Kumar, who are with with Teamlease Services and Teamlease Skills University respectively. Read on...

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"People have to understand that liquor is not a vaccine for COVID-19"

An editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana'