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By Nathan Barlow Jun. 7 – A trade corridor is a specific trading route that utilizes common trade agreements and infrastructure of the involved nations to increase the flow and productivity of trade. The establishment of a trade corridor by the Bangladesh–China–India–Myanmar Forum for Regional Cooperation (BCIM) was an idea originally developed by Chinese scholars […]

June 6 – The United States (U.S.) has decided to extend six-month sanction exemptions for China, India and seven other countries for reducing their oil imports from Iran. The seven other nations include South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Taiwan. Japan and 10 countries from the European Union also received exemptions earlier […]

India strengthened its “Look East Policy” recently after government officials visited several of the country’s Asian neighbors, meeting with representatives in Japan, Thailand and Vietnam.

May 21 – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has recently met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, the first trip abroad for Premier Li in an official capacity. The two world leaders discussed India-China relations, as well as penned several agreements designed to foster investment and trade between the two nations. “The purpose […]

As India begins to recover from the aftermath of what has indeed proven to be a difficult financial period, questions are now being asked as to the extent of competition India really brings to global markets when measured up against China.

May 14 – UBS, a global financial services company, has recently published its exhaustive global summary of prices and earnings as part of a report released once every three years. Using their listed global benchmark of New York as a standard for comparison, we have extrapolated the data UBS produced on China and India regarding purchasing power and expenditure. For […]

Based on a UBS report of global prices and earnings, we present a comparison of China and India’s wages and salaries. We find that low-skilled worker wages are lower in India, while high-skilled worker wages are closer to being equal.

Hopes are rising that the proposed India-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA) may finally be signed off next month after five years of talks. Another window for reaching consensus may not come around again for some time.

Recently, a third round of talks at the Brigadier-level between the Indian Army and a Chinese battalion has failed, with the Chinese side objecting to “infrastructure developments on the Indian side.”

In a survey of 1,373 front-line leaders in both China and India, a report has found that compared to their Chinese counterparts, Indian managers are more self-confident.