Bloomberg In a democracy, two resounding election defeats in a matter of months might prompt some soul searching in the losing camp. In China, however, a snub at the polls in places it claims is more a minor setback rather than a sign of a flawed strategy. President Xi Jinping’s government showed that yet again in the wake of Taiwanese ...

Bloomberg India will create at least 1.6 million fewer formal jobs across government and low-paying sectors, State Bank of India estimates, a segment that typically absorbs some of the millions of youth entering the world’s biggest workforce each year. There’s also evidence that people who migrate within the country for employment are sending less money home to some of the ...

Bloomberg India lost more than $1.33 billion to internet restrictions in 2019 as prime minister Narendra Modi’s government pushed ahead with his party’s Hindu nationalist agenda, raising tensions and sparking nationwide protests. The worst shutdown has been in Kashmir, where after intermittent closures in the first half of the year, the internet has been cut off since August 5 following ...