Saturday, October 12, 2019

Quick notes: Kurd slaughter | RCEP bait...

  • Kurds may be wiped out before Turkey sanctions happen: “Reestablish safe zones to protect Kurds and prevent the reemergence of ISIS before it’s too late”.


  • 'You are leaving us to be slaughtered': Military leader of Syrian Kurds tells US


  • Did we betray the Kurds for Trump Towers?: Donald Trump's longtime business connections in Turkey back in the spotlight


  • Swadeshi Jagran Manch Is Right: The RCEP is not for India. Very often, we get into bad deals because of the fear of being left out in the cold. In theory, FTAs are good for everybody; in practice, they are often tilted towards manufacturing powers to the detriment of services powers. India has a huge trade deficit of over $50 billion with China precisely because of this. We export only low-value added products, while we import higher-value products, and our services industry has been kept out substantially through non-tariff barriers.

    FTAs are not an either/or option for us. We can substitute FTAs with bilateral deals that are renegotiable based on actual results over the coming years. These can later be converted to FTAs once the benefits are seen as two-way.


  • India rejects RCEP e-commerce chapter: Acceptance would have prevented it from implementing the rules on data localisation. . . . “No Party shall require a covered person to use or locate computing facilities in that Party’s territory as a condition for conducting business in that territory,” reads the wording in the draft chapter.


  • Affordable EV? Tata Nexon EV gives India an affordable domestic-brand electric car


  • Women transform rural Vellore: How an army of women in Vellore resurrected a river that once served as their lifeline



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