Quick notes: UPI learnings | Trade war lost...

• Unified Payments Interface: Google thinks India’s UPI can become a global model.



• Trump lost the trade war: China stood firm and won. The sad truth is that the U.S. will continue to run huge wealth and technology transfers to China financed by America’s increasing net foreign debt that will show as net foreign assets on China’s books.
  
  

  That's certainly how the Chinese see it. Trump tried to bully them; they hung tough; and are basically ending up where they started, buying agricultural products while selling us increasingly sophisticated manufactured goods 2/ https://t.co/akDz4MGiIz

  — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 15, 2019

  
  
  If losing some $17 billion in agricultural exports to China due to the trade war was tough for farmers, imagine a much larger market, with China taking some $50 billion away from American agribusiness in the future should relations deteriorate.
  
  This is not France versus Germany. This is a capitalist democracy versus a Frankenstein economy that’s one-part capitalist, one part state-controlled, and run by a single political party — the Communist Party — long considered the enemy of Western democracies.



• “Sheltering Minority Refugees Act”: This govt simply does not understand the art of telling its story and managing the narrative internationally.

India creates an act for sheltering persecuted minorities.

It is slammed in global media for “persecuting” minorities. 🙄

Language is key to narrative.

E.g. what if it had called the act, more accurately —“Sheltering Minority Refugees Act” instead of #CitizenshipAmendmentBill? https://t.co/SuQSd5vLlx

— Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ (@sankrant) December 10, 2019




• KKKaangress foments unrest: Joins hands with Breaking India forces. 



• Mohandas Pai: BJP's big disconnect with South and East India