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July 14, 2011

The World Next Week: Debt Debates, U.S.-Indian Relations, and Afghan Handovers

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sonia Gandhi, head of India's ruling Congress Party, before a meeting in New Delhi on July 20, 2009. (B. Mathur/courtesy Reuters) The World Next Week podcast …

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shakes hands with Chief of India’s ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi before their meeting in New Delhi on July 20, 2009. (B. Mathur/courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

December 18, 2015

Development
This Week in Markets and Democracy: Modi’s Reform Agenda, the WTO, and 2015 UN Development Report

Modi’s Reforms at Odds A senior official in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is pushing a corruption probe that threatens to derail his own party’s Goods and Servic…

A labourer pushes a handcart loaded with sacks containing tea packets, towards a supply truck at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India, June 26, 2015. For years Indian businesses have lobbied for a nationwide sales tax, hoping to replace a chaotic structure that inflates costs and halts their trucks at state borders for duty payments, and to unify the country into one of the world's largest single markets. But after political compromises that finally got a goods and services tax (GST) bill before parliament
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Development Channel

May 16, 2014

China
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of May 16, 2014

Ashlyn Anderson, Lauren Dickey, Darcie Draudt, Charles McClean, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia today. 1. And the results are in: A Modi mandate in India! The five-we…

Supporters of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate on March 16, 2014, after learning of poll results showing Narendra Modi of the BJP as the next leader of the world’s largest democracy (Amit Dave/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Asia Unbound Asia Unbound

October 29, 2013

India
Introductory Post

Hello Asia Unbound readers! As CFR’s newest senior fellow, and the newest contributor to the blog, I look forward to adding a little more content on South Asia to the group effort. At CFR, I am cover…

Indian PM Singh speaks with Gujarat's CM and Hindu nationalist Modi during the inauguration ceremony of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel national museum in Ahmedabad
Blog Post by Alyssa Ayres Asia Unbound

June 27, 2016

Cuba
Bush Gives the Medal of Freedom to a Cuban Hero

In 2007, President George W. Bush awarded the Medal of Freedom in absentia to the Cuban human rights and democracy activist Oscar Elias Biscet. This week, he was able to place the award on Biscet’s s…

President Bush Medal Freedom Oscar Biscet
Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points