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India At 73 Needs A New Trade Legacy: Aggressive Regionalism
Integrating India with the TPP-11, decoupling it from China, will serve India’s national security and public health interests.
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![Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi, on March 13, 2020. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)](https://media.assettype.com/bloombergquint%2F2020-07%2Fb1ba494a-a3bd-4c7e-8997-de0f02ae9051%2F360264436.jpg?rect=0%2C0%2C2749%2C1546&auto=format%2Ccompress&w=200)
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi, on March 13, 2020. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)
Nearly three-quarters of a century after Britain partitioned India effective Aug. 15, 1947, modern Indian politicians faced a challenge the country’s Founding Fathers could not have foreseen: rewriting India’s trade laws and policies. Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas K Gandhi, and BR Ambedkar thought laterally across multiple disciplines. Today’s leaders include shrewd technocrats with Hindu nationalist biases presiding over unconnected fi...
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