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India’s PetroChina envy has one problem —shareholders

  Everything China has, India wants — except perhaps its communist rulers. Right now, the object of the southern neighbour’s envy is oil. Or, to be precise, very large energy gorillas. Beijing possesses three, and New Delhi none. So the latter wants to merge its smaller companies into bigger groups. There’s only one problem with the plan: shareholders. When China ...

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Rex Tillerson: Show up for human rights

  In another year or another administration, the absence of a cabinet official at a press conference would merit no comment. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s decision not to attend Friday’s release of the department’s annual human rights report, however, is a small but telling sign of a more profound and dangerous shift: President Donald Trump’s apathy for the values ...

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US president changes tack on Russia

  Russia might be Achilles heel of Trump foreign policy. During his campaign, and after taking oath of office for president of United States, Trump was accused of having something to do with Russia. Trump always lambasted the report of Russian interventions in US presidential elections. The Republican billionaire disparaged those who accused Putin directing Russian hacking. The intelligence report ...

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