Last week India and the United Kingdom inked a Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (FTA). It is not India’s first such trade agreement and neither will it be the last.
At a time when the world economy is fragmenting due to geopolitics, the business, composition and direction of trade is being reinvented. The earlier mantra of identifying the cheapest product and locating the fastest route is no longer tenable.
What will be this new geometry of trade? How will India traverse this new world trade order?
To answer all this and more, StratNewsGlobal.Tech spoke to Harsh Pant, Professor of International Relations, King’s College, London on Capital Calculus.
Anil Padmanabhan has been a journalist for the last 36 years. He has worked in various capacities in several publications including Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Press Trust of India, Business Standard, Mint and was based in New York for India Today. He was a Nieman Fellow in 2001. He tweets at @capitalcalculus.