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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It’s the Nobel Prize, stupid! Ego clash with Modi triggered stiff Trump tariffs against India
The New York Times has reported that it was the refusal of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to endorse the Nobel Peace Prize nomination for US President Donald Trump, an endorsement that Pakistan was willing to give, led to the unravelling of US-India ties.
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.
“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”.
Trump tariff war: Political motives overwhelm commercial acuity
While many of these new US tariff rates are reciprocal — the United States is raising export barriers for countries that slap a high tariff on US imports into their own territories — many of them are political, with US President Donald Trump using tariffs to settle scores where his political intervention has not made much headway.
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.
Trump hands China 125 percent tariff, partial respite for India and 74 other countries
Trump made these announcement on social media, stating that the decision to raise tariffs on China was due to the lack of respect China has shown to the world’s markets. He mentioned that China’s actions of “ripping off” the US and other countries will no longer be accepted.
China responds to US tariffs with new trade measures and Google probe
China is the world’s largest importer of liquefied natural gas, with its top suppliers being Australia, Qatar and Malaysia. The US, which is the biggest exporter of LNG globally, does not significantly export LNG to China.
