From the Editor-in-Chief

TThe birth pangs of Modi 3.0 are now all but settled, so the government can get down to brass tacks in right earnest. In Trump’s “demolition drive” lies the chance for India to position itself as the main port of call for capital in flight from China. Axis Bank chief economist Neelkanth Mishra reads the incoming US president’s promise to disrupt the status quo as only a “starting point for negotiation”. Swedish journalist-author Bertil Lintner anticipates a spell of “unpredictable” behaviour from Beijing as well, saying the Belt and Road Initiative has become a bleeding white elephant it’s trying to dismount. For author-academic Amita Batra, the intensifying ‘China Plus One’ phase is the right time for India to ease its own tariff regimes, if it is not to lose out to fast emerging economies like Vietnam.