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Missing Mr Xi

China's leader skips the G20, underlining his unwillingness to make place for an aspirational India

Will industrial policy fail India again?

Seven lessons from East Asia's industrialisation

The boys played well

The military's crackdown on Imran Khan and his supporters is anti-democratic, and will further reduce Pakistan's chances of normality and growth

Ignore geopolitics

To make India's G20 presidency a success, leaders must narrow their focus

A failure in Russia

The events in Russia last week reveal that Mr Putin's governance innovations are not as robust as claimed

Hesitations historic and present

The drivers of the India-US relationship have stalled

The reason for ritual

The restoration of lost imperial or religious ceremony is vital for the desecularisation and demodernisation process

The end of 'decoupling'?

A more nuanced vision of the future of supply chains and economic security has emerged from the G7 summit

A living fossil, on TV today

No doubt the coronation of King Charles III has enduring cultural heritage, but when state rituals are divorced from private beliefs, can they retain their public character for long?

Behind the 'Russia tilt'

Unpacking India's 'national interest', more than a year after the invasion

Dealing with the diaspora

There are worrying signs that in the next decade the Indian diaspora will begin to create more complications for Indian foreign and domestic policy than it hitherto has

A monster from the past

The global turn to industrial policy defies history and logic

A presidency in peril

From the point of view of India's chosen position as a bridge between West and East and between North and South, the inability to craft even a weak consensus as well as the Indonesians will be a worry

Lessons from a year of war

Nine errors from Moscow, and one thing Kyiv got right

India's reputation will survive Hindenburg

Those who worry that the Adani saga will turn the world off India are not looking at the entire picture

Union Budget 2023-24: Firm on prudence, high on feel-good factor

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday presented the Union Budget for 2023-24, which is expected to serve as the last full Budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term in office

The emperor's new valuation

Short-sellers have a role to play in market processes - but it is regulators that really make markets move

The year's biggest question mark: China

Investors have responded well to bits of optimistic news since late October, but no one can be certain that there is money to be made in China

Assumptions that didn't survive 2022

In a year marked by conflict and loss, silver linings were few and far between, with many statements much harder to repeat at the end of 2022 than at the beginning

India better placed as world deals with Covid, economic headwinds

From a full-blown war in Europe to China's botched-up exit from its zero-Covid policy, the first of a yearender series assesses how geopolitics and geoeconomics played out for India