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How India could get the Trade Deal with the US by buying oil from US and Saudis/UAE and allowing imports of non grain and non dairy agricultural products

08/28/2025

US sanctioned India with 50% tariff for buying Russian oil saying it finances RUssia's war against Ukraine and daily deadly missile strikes. ein dollar terms are now insignificant at $2-the 3 billion. In fact India is already shifting to getting more of its imports from the Middle East. India could also import additional oil from the US and make changes to import non grain and non dairy agricultural products from the US in large volumes such as almonds, walnuts, pistachios, blueberries, cherries that it's upper middle class population of 250 million could benefit from the nutritional benefits. US in its fight against the pharmaceutical companies high pricing could change laws to bring in Indian pharmaceutical products at 10-15% price above Indian prices set by the government to meet needs of its large population. In pharma product pricing India leads the whole world and this benefit would lower the cost of living in the US tremendously. Both sides would benefit in a WIn-WIn relationship in trade- THIS IS ACHIEVABLE FOR THE INTERESTS OF AMERICANS AND INDIANS. IT ONLY REQUIRES VISION OF BOTH SIDES.

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India's benefit from Russian oil imports exaggerated; actual gain at just $2.5 bn

The Economic Times 08/28/2025

Opinion | America’s Fearsome Farm Lobby Has Nothing on India’s

The Wall Street Journal 08/27/2025

Steve Jobs Tim Cook and shipping out of America' industrial base and with it America's leadership of the Free World

05/26/2025

America's industrial strength, it's industrial base, is one of the four pillars of America's leadership of the Free World. Without it the Free World will fall apart. The other pillars are it's education and it's health care. Underfunding of education with declining enrolment of men in college and lack of factory jobs comes with loss of the industrial base for taxes, taxes avoided by Apple and other companies. All these problems are becoming clear in 2025 as DJT calls for reindustrializing the Nation.

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Trump, Apple relationship devolves with threats 

The Hill 05/26/2025

Tech’s Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades

NYTimes.com 05/26/2025

Tim Cook’s Bad Year Keeps Getting Worse

WSJ 05/24/2025

DJT US 25% auto import tariff April 2, 2025

03/30/2025

The impact of the 25% DJT US auto import tariff comes after NAFTA and USMCA Trade Treaty did little to prevent the outshoring of US jobs and manufacturing to Mexico and Canada. German and South Korean companies made about 80% to 60% of cars sold in the US in Mexico or in their home country. The outshoring was used by American and foreign companies as a way to keep American automobile wages low as American companies could threaten workers asking for higher wages with loss of jobs by outshoring the production. This happened for two decades under the elder Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. The US International Trade Commission estimates in a 2024 study that this 25% tariff would increase revenues by 5% and prices by 5% in the US for cars. Higher prices over 10% would be borne by affluent buyers of BMW's, Benz and Audis. Because US auto plants have excess capacity and operate at 60% in 2025 they could quickly increase American production without increasing prices as American manufacturers car sales increase. Hyundai plans to invest $21 billion in US plants from 2025. UAW union supports this move by DJT and trade advisers Lighthizer, Jamieson USTR, and Navarro.

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Trump says he 'couldn't care less' if car prices rise in the US

BBC News 03/30/2025

Transcript: UAW president Shawn Fain on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," March 30, 2025

03/30/2025

How Trump’s Tariffs Are Hitting Big Car Producers, in Charts

WSJ 03/27/2025

Trump Warned U.S. Automakers Not to Raise Prices in Response to Tariffs

WSJ 03/28/2025

Action to cut single use plastic bags and packaging 2025

11/27/2024

Efforts to end the use of single use plastics that are a threat to health and the environment, land, rivers and oceans. The use of plastic water bottles has worsened the crisis. Supermarkets are slow in the US to ban plastic bags showing need for prudent regulation. Talks in Busan, South Korea, in Nov 2024 to find a solution to the plastics proliferation crisis. The plastics industry including plastics makers and recycling companies say things are under control with recycling goals, yet reports show only 30% of plastics is being recycled each year in 2024, and going back to the beginning of plastics 2 decades back only about 10% has been recycled.

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Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds

NYTimes.com 11/27/2024

The plastics we breathe

Washington Post 06/10/2024

China Tries to Stem the Flow of Its Plastic Waste

WSJ 01/20/2020

Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis

WSJ 12/12/2018

New York Businesses Anticipate Plastic-Bag Ban

WSJ 02/27/2020

Supermarkets in France forced to ditch plastic and set up ‘refill stations’ selling unpackaged goods

The Times 04/01/2021

China and the World Face a Double Blow from decades of housing construction enabled hyper growth- creating problems of climate change for the World and a slump in growth in 2023

10/16/2023

Decades of growth at 12-14% have left China and the World worse off. As Greg Ip pointed out in WSJ America could not cope with this hyper growth in a country many times the size of Japan after absorbing the growth of Japan in the sixties. The result was the closing down of factories and ever increasing imports from China until America had transferred its manufacturing prowess to China. This led to the societal breakdown in the US with communities dependent on factories across the US feeling the brunt. The other effects were an unprecedented in scale use of coal and fossil fuels to fuel hyper growth rates in China that created the problems of World Climate Change by 2023 and contamination of water, land and air inside China. By 2030 China will be aging rapidly similar to Japan today and the slowing economy in 2024 onwards could mean China will be stuck in the Middle Income category. All this poses lessons for America, for Europe, India and the World on what kind of growth is healthy and what kind is not, what is sustainable growth and what is not,what works well for the planet and what does not.

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China Bet It All on Real Estate. Now Its Economy Is Paying the Price.

NYTimes.com 10/16/2023

An Even Bigger Housing Crisis Threatens China’s Economy

WSJ 09/18/2023

Is China’s Economic Predicament as Bad as Japan’s? It Could Be Worse

WSJ 09/19/2023

China’s Economy Remains Shaky After Challenging Summer

WSJ 10/13/2023

The World Bank and Africa, Global South- $100 billion expansion and new vision supported by Modi and Biden

10/14/2023

Prime Minister Modi and president Biden put forward a new vision for the World Bank at the G20 meetings in New Delhi, India. This means the World Bank will expansion of funding of $100 billion and new task of development in poor counties of the Global South in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

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A Bigger World Bank Takes on China’s Clout

WSJ 10/13/2023

Opinion | Humanity Is Facing a Great Injustice. The World Bank Must Respond.

NYTimes.com 10/09/2023

WSJ News Exclusive | India’s Modi Sees Unprecedented Trust With U.S., Touts New Delhi’s Leadership Role

WSJ 06/22/2023

Economist Adriana Kugler in Her Own Words

WSJ 05/12/2023

World Bank President Malpass announces resignation – DW – 02/16/2023

dw.com 02/16/2023

The World Bank and Africa, Global South- $100 billion expansion and new vision supported by Modi and Biden

10/14/2023

Prime Minister Modi and president Biden put forward a new vision for the World Bank at the G20 meetings in New Delhi, India. This means the World Bank will expansion of funding of $100 billion and new task of development in poor counties of the Global South in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

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A Bigger World Bank Takes on China’s Clout

WSJ 10/13/2023

Opinion | Humanity Is Facing a Great Injustice. The World Bank Must Respond.

NYTimes.com 10/09/2023

WSJ News Exclusive | India’s Modi Sees Unprecedented Trust With U.S., Touts New Delhi’s Leadership Role

WSJ 06/22/2023

Economist Adriana Kugler in Her Own Words

WSJ 05/12/2023

World Bank President Malpass announces resignation – DW – 02/16/2023

dw.com 02/16/2023

Changes in Saudi society and women's participation under MBS 2023

09/30/2023

Profound changes are taking place in Saudi society and participation, opportunities for women. It is similar to what happened in Turkey under Kemal Ataturk in the 1920's and 1930's. The role of MBZ in the United Arab Emirates and of MBS in Saudi in bringing changes to societies that have not changed since the Renaissance changed the way Europe looked at the world leading to the scientific and industrial revolutions. These changes affect a larger region extending from Saudi to India and Indonesia, that increase participation of women and the exercise of fundamental rights of women, participation of women in society and opportunities for education and advancement. The changes for women in East Asian societies are now within reach of South Asian and West Asian socieities as they embrace the scientific and industrial revolutions.

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India-Saudi collaboration holds promise of shared growth, prosperity, says Jaishankar

The Hindu 09/11/2022

Opinion | What would Jamal Khashoggi think of Saudi Arabia today?

Washington Post 09/30/2023

Post-G20, India and Saudi Arabia build on corridor, strategic ties

The Indian Express 09/12/2023

Mohammed bin Zayed’s Dark Vision of the Middle East’s Future (Published 2020)

NYTimes.com 06/29/2022

Why India needs women to work

The Economist 07/11/2018

A Conundrum for Saudis: Women at Work

New York Times 11/28/2014

The Future of Work - worklife balance, Feirabend, (breaking off from work at 5.01), 30 hour weeks and longer careers

09/13/2023

What does the future of work look like. Ideas from Laura Carstensen of the Stanford Center for Longevity who says rather than follow an outdated norm of education in the early part of life, work in the middle part of life and leisure in the latter part of life, it makes sense to mix education, work and leisure throughout life. Feierabend is the German practice of breaking off from work at 5.01 pm so that one can go outdoors for exercise and fresh air. All this with nutrition and exercise, healthy living, contributes to a more productive satisfying life that includes time for family, parents and children.

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The Future of Work - worklife balance, Feirabend, (breaking off from work at 5.01), 30 hour weeks and longer careers

09/13/2023

What does the future of work look like. Ideas from Laura Carstensen of the Stanford Center for Longevity who says rather than follow an outdated norm of education in the early part of life, work in the middle part of life and leisure in the latter part of life, it makes sense to mix education, work and leisure throughout life. Feierabend is the German practice of breaking off from work at 5.01 pm so that one can go outdoors for exercise and fresh air. All this with nutrition and exercise, healthy living, contributes to a more productive satisfying life that includes time for family, parents and children.

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How 65% of students failing reading comprehension and 75% failing civics and history is holding back America.

05/19/2023

The scores on National Assessment of Education Progress NAEP show two thirds of students failing reading proficiency, similar math scores, and over 75% failing civics and history. This has a serious effect on everything in society- the ability to get good jobs, to increase incomes, to teach their own children to create a better future, for the overwhelming majority of Americans. This has not changed for about two decades and is only getting worse. Nothing that Silicon Valley or capital markets have done, or successive governments have done so far for 2 decades is changing this situation. What Biden calls the struggle for the Soul of the Nation has this as the probable cause because lack of reading comprehension affects everything and leads to serious deterioration and breakdown in society. What is sometimes called technology is not really technology, computers yes, but not social media which damages the capacity for clear thinking and in the young of mental health also or what passes for technology that takes everything to the lowest common denominator including Google Search as shown in Lyrarc's Movement for Global Literacy.

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History and civics scores drop for U.S. eighth-graders on national test

NPR 05/03/2023

National math and reading scores remain constant, but disparities emerge

Washington Post 04/11/2018

U.S. student performance slips on national test - The Washington Post

Washington Post 10/28/2015

Eighth-Graders’ History, Civics Test Scores Hit Record Low

WSJ 05/03/2023

Test Scores Show Students Made Little Progress in National Exam

WSJ 04/10/2018

The Great Stagnation in American Education

New York Times 09/07/2013

Indian effort to power renewable energy with the help of Denmark and Nordic countries

03/07/2023

Denmark is a key player for renewable energy expansion and for port logistics modernization in India. Denmark produces 50% of its energy from wind power, Germany 25%. A Danish business delegation accompanies the prime minister on a visit to New Delhi and India participates in a Nordic Conference in 2022.

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A Nordic-India connect to power a green transition

The Hindu 02/08/2023

India-Nordic Summit

www.narendramodi.in 08/27/2022

Danish port city to play key role in Europe's wind energy plans | DW | 24.07.2022

DW.COM 07/24/2022

Denmark eyes Germany among top wind farm clients | DW | 09.10.2021

DW.COM 10/09/2021


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