Jijo Jacob

Articles by Jijo Jacob

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Emperor Xi: China under one man rule is a larger threat to India

A China with a single-minded leadership and without internal squabbles to worry about is essentially expansionist in nature.

Mar 12, 2018

PNB requests relief from RBI: Occasional expose is feted, but justice never served

The daring bank heist executed in an unbelievably simplistic manner will now become the subject of complex arguments at various courts.

Mar 9, 2018

Dalai Lama visits monastery in disputed Arunachal Pradesh region

Dalai Lama snub: How India keels over in face of bare-knuckle diplomacy

China grudgingly accommodated the fact that India hosted the Lama and occasionally used his banner to spite it, while for India, batting for him was an emphatic diplomatic statement.

Mar 8, 2018

Trump says guns should be taken from mentally ill without due process

Trump's trade war (of honor) against China is a losing game

Whenever it was hit with tariffs, China has responded in kind, inflicting equal or greater pain on the US

Mar 2, 2018

Thanks to Putin and Trump, arms race is back from cold war dungeons

If the US can update its nuclear weapons strategy for the first time since 2010 and can develop its latest nuclear weapons, the Russians can do so too.

Mar 2, 2018

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Trump sharpens attack on China as trade war looms

China sends President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser Liu He to the US in view of the worsening tensions.

Mar 1, 2018

India under Modi is a 'greater threat' but China has a plan to browbeat us

'If we again suppress India's infrastructure in the sky, even if the Indians launch another border conflict, they will only once again throw their helmets out of their shame'

Feb 27, 2018

Xi Jinping becomes most powerful Chinese leader since Mao

More power to Xi: How new tyranny plays out for China's neighbours and rivals

Parallels are drawn between what lies ahead for Xi Jinping's China and what had been Mao's.

Feb 26, 2018

Hideous links: India's poor corruption score card and its dead whistle blowers

As many as 69 activists and whistleblowers who were trying to expose corruption at various levels were killed in India since 2005.

Feb 22, 2018

China's 'cash and carry' diplomacy in Balochistan: The good, bad and the uncertain

If Pakistan is willingly degrading itself as a client state of China, there are positive takeaways for India.

Feb 21, 2018

Oli's India snub: Revives dam project with China, to review Nepali recruitment in Indian army

The Chinese role in Nepal's economy has been growing in recent years.

Feb 20, 2018

PSBs haven't met the goals of bank nationalisation, so privatise them

Bank nationalisation had its economic goals -- to stem the rising tide of bank failures, refocus bank lending on agriculture and offer credit support to a whole lot of priority sectors.

Feb 19, 2018

Will India thwart Chinese bid to win key stake in Dhaka Stock Exchange?

China picked up a 40 percent stake in the Pakistan Stock Exchange last year.

Feb 19, 2018

OPINION- PNB scam: We allow these piggeries happen again

Media is aware of the loot but it's too carried away by the daily euphoria around markets, budget, mutual funds and those start-up wunderkind piffle.

Feb 16, 2018

US and the Western bloc will find it hard to retain military edge over China

In the last 17 years China built more submarines, destroyers, frigates and corvettes than Japan, South Korea and India combined.

Feb 15, 2018

Bad loans and capital infusion: Welcome to the freeloaders' paradise

The unavoidable, inevitable public largesse on defaulters and their abettors encourages lax governance and a lack of probity.

Feb 14, 2018

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Another stock market sell-off waiting in the wings?

For Indian stocks, there is actually more to worry even beyond March.

Feb 13, 2018

OPINION: Rahul Gandhi's spiritual awakening is good for Indian secularism

A Rahul Gandhi who unapologetically prays at temples is a better guardian of India's secularism than his agnostic great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru.

Feb 12, 2018

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Market's TINA moment: There's no alternative to a crash

The P/E ratio of Sensex stocks was near the dangerous 2008 levels while the ratio of corporate profits to GDP has been low.

Feb 9, 2018

Bitcoin's upcoming ultimate crash: Take it from Nouriel Roubini, other naysayers

Investment luminaries and financial experts have called cryptocurrencies a bubble, a mirage and a scam that's waiting to go belly up.

Feb 8, 2018

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