Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) In its 250th year, the United States is witnessing a rare reversal. More Americans moved out than moved in last year, a shift not seen since the Great Depression, a major financial daily has reported.The US experienced net negative migration in 2025, with an estimated loss of about 150,000 people, according to calculations by the Brookings Institution. The outflow is expected to increase in 2026. Total in-migration fell to between 2.6 and 2.7 million in 2025, down from …
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Washington, Feb 18 (IANS) China’s expanding military footprint, economic leverage, and technology dominance are sharpening India’s strategic anxieties, top American and Indian experts told a U.S. congressional commission on Tuesday, warning that New Delhi’s rivalry with Beijing remains structural despite a recent diplomatic thaw. Testifying before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, academics, think tank experts, and former officials stated that the October 2024 diseng…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The world is financially retrenching from China, with foreign direct investment (FDI) flows falling more precipitously than to the rest of emerging markets (EM), according to Robin J Brooks, Senior Fellow at the US-based nonprofit Brookings Institution.In an article on online publishing platform Substack, he writes that the “narrative that China is impervious to US tariffs is wrong”.“You just have to look at the massive scale of trade diversion that’s happening t…
Los Angeles, Dec 29 (IANS) The Southern California News Group (SCNG) published an editorial titled “$12 billion payout to farmers is a tariff-based disaster,” saying a bailout announced earlier this month underscored the failure of the Trump administration’s trade policies.The editorial, written by the SCNG Editorial Board, opened with a pointed question: “If President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade wars are so great for the American economy, then why does he have to shell out, as he did this …