To delve into the question of ‘How China and India are confronting the global economic turbulence’, two Singapore institutes — the East Asian Institute (EAI) and the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) at the National University of Singapore — are jointly holding a public session on 8 September 2025 (9.30am – 12.30pm) at Amara Singapore Hotel.
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Important for India, China to work together to bring stability to world economic order: Modi
In an interview with Yomiuri Shimbun, published during his ongoing visit to Japan, Modi also asserted that stable, predictable, and amicable bilateral relations between India and China — as two neighbours and two among the largest nations on earth — can have a positive impact on regional and global peace and prosperity.
India is the “springboard” for Japanese business to the Global South, Modi says in Tokyo
Showcasing India as an attractive investment destination, Narendra Modi said in Japan that his country has political and economic stability as well as transparency and predictability in policy decisions.
“Modi’s war”! Now White House blames New Delhi for Russia-Ukraine conflict and its economic cost
Peter Navarro, who is US President Donald Trump’s Senior Counsellor for Trade and Manufacturing, claimed in an interview to Bloomberg that “India is helping feed the Russian war machine”.
Singapore has not just endured, but also prevailed and prospered: PM Wong on SG60
PM Lawrence Wong delivered his National Day Message from the Padang, a historic site that saw the very first National Day Parade of Singapore in 1966. He shared an image on X, stating: “60 years on, we are at another important turning point. We must now adapt to a very different world.”
UAE attracting 9,800 millionaires in 2025: Reports
The UAE is eyeing to become the world’s major destination for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) in 2025.
World Bank report says global economic growth is expected to decline this year
Global economic growth is expected to decline this year due to increased trade barriers and policy uncertainty, the World Bank said.
Trump tariff war: Singapore downgrades 2025 GDP growth forecast to 0-2%, as global trade falters
The April 14 announcement of downgrading by MTI comes exactly two months after a February 14 media release stating that the ministry was maintaining the Singapore “GDP growth forecast for 2025 at 1.0 to 3.0 per cent”. That media release had said that the Singapore economy had expanded by 4.4 per cent in 2024.
Is US headed for “Trump recession”? Economic worries mount over tariff wars, workforce cuts, spending freeze
The US federal government reduced its payrolls by 10,000 in a potential harbinger of the alarm being sounded by the stock market, consumer confidence and other measures of where the economy is headed. Since January, the economic policy uncertainty index has spiked 41 per cent to a level, 334.5, that in the past signalled a recession.
Donald Trump says “India charges us auto tariffs higher than 100%”; announces tit-for-tat US tariffs globally from April 2
Trump said on March 4 night, in an address to the Joint Session of the Congress, the first of his second term in the White House, “Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades and now it’s our turn to start using them against those other countries. On [an] average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India — Mexico and Canada, have you heard of them — and countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them. It’s very unfair.”
