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Piyush Goyal: India held high-level trade talks with six key nations

Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said Friday that the government held a series of high-level bilateral meetings with representatives from Chile, Oman, the Netherlands, the Maldives, Germany and Egypt to deepen trade, investment and strategic cooperation.

Indo-German Ties~II

Africa is estimated to have an abundance of rare earths but lacks exploration and extraction capabilities. German capital and green tech know-how augmented by an Indian-African workforce could be the key driver for Africa to replace China as the world‘s source of rare earths over the next decade. It would provide employment avenues for India‘s young population both at the skilled and semi-skilled levels, remittances from a new geography will come into play, and the opportunities for trade and commerce would grow. Africa would benefit as its own youth bulge would become productive

Indo-German Ties~I

The issue is: Has Germany truly grasped that its accommodative approach towards autocracies whether out of economic self-interest or in the interest of conflict-management by engaging deeply with them is subject to the law of diminishing returns? Further, has Berlin understood how damaging overdependence on absolutist states is?