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The anatomy of India’s trade capitulation to Trump

In the high-stakes world of trade diplomacy, agreements are usually forged quietly through painstaking negotiations behind closed doors, dense legal texts and carefully calibrated “reciprocity” and “give and take.” The recently announced India-US “interim trade deal” departs

How the Takaichi era can save Japan

Japan is a parliamentary democracy; they have a prime minister rather than a president. So when Takaichi Sanae became prime minister last October, it was because she won an internal party election, not because she received the mandate of the people. This was a problem for her,