India-Canada row: How ties hit rock bottom between the two countries

There is also an uneasy relationship between China and India. Their twenty-five-hundred-mile border is unresolved, and it was a major cause of their 1962 war. But the friction transcends the border dispute and reflects their strategic competition. An important motive for India…

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There were also clashes over the environment. Ricardo Salles, the ideological environment minister, cut funding for agencies such as Ibama and ICMBio. The resulting increase in deforestation has been a major concern for local agribusiness groups, worried about their potential loss of access to markets and capital. At the 22 April cabinet meeting, S

Political decisions and diplomacy mattered too. The Soviet Union was isolated from the other major Communist power, China, as the two increasingly fell out over China’s resistance to being the junior partner in the relationship, differences over which Communist model other countries in the nonaligned third world should emulate, disagreements over t

At the heart of the deterioration of the relationship has been American frustration over trade, especially Chinese theft and forced transfer of American intellectual property as well as Chinese barriers to American exports. There is also concern that China is forging ahead (in no small part because of large government subsidies) in the competition