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Not until committee strongman C. W. Oseen died in 1944 could the theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli – one of the
giants
of quantum mechanics – receive a prize.
India’s early-stage experience with capitalism has lessons that other countries should heed in an age of rising tech
giants.
No crystal ball is needed to know that intensifying global resource competition means that Europeans must use their combined weight in world markets, and in dealing with emerging economic
giants
in Asia and elsewhere.
As a result, relations with Latin America’s giants, Brazil and Mexico, are being put on a more normal footing, relations with Spain are being improved.
Likewise, emerging economic
giants
like China and India should be accorded substantially greater voting power.
These dynamic
giants
terrify the wealthy populations of the industrialized world with the potential power of their low-cost competition, cheap products, and outsourcing of services.
Flawed geo-political
giants
have in the past been a source of instability (Germany before World War I is an obvious analogy), and there are good reasons to see them presenting increased risk in the twenty-first century.
Ireland’s greatest weapon against the ensuing debt deflation was its ability to attract US-based tech giants, by offering them a combination of EU law, a well-trained English-speaking workforce, and a 12.5% corporate-tax rate.
But while the world’s economic
giants
have been withdrawing from multilateralism, Africa has been quietly moving in the opposite direction.
Looking ahead, China and India are the looming
giants
of Asia, with their huge populations and rapid economic growth rates.
Other leaders who held similar views were not treated as great sages, let alone as
giants
of history.
It is high time for business leaders to be more candid about where their real constituencies lie, and for national politicians to recognize that they can no longer wield control over the
giants
of today’s European business.
For the countries of Asia – especially its rising giants, China and India – sustainable growth is no longer part of a global challenge.
Its two giants, India and China, are especially determined, as Indian author Ashutosh Sheshabalaya recently put it, “to return to their nineteenth-century status, when they accounted for well over half of world economic output.”
Chinese analysts gleefully point out that, after having sung the “liberalize, privatize, and let the markets decide” song for so long, the United States and Britain took the lead in bailing out their financial
giants
at the first sign of trouble.
But the two
giants
of Europe can agree to disagree about the virtues of German-style budgetary rigor or French-style fiscal stimulus as long as they don’t insult each other, and, more importantly, as long as they compensate for their philosophical differences with a well publicized program of joint initiatives on key subjects.
Other large and populous emerging countries in Asia and South America are following in these giants’ footsteps.
By enshrining so-called Xi Jinping Thought in the CPC charter, Party members established Xi alongside the People’s Republic’s two historical giants, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping – the only other Chinese leaders with officially recognized eponymous ideologies.
This is all the more true at a time when tech
giants
like Facebook, Amazon, Tencent, and Alibaba – with matchmaking-based business models turbo-boosted by digital technology – are propelling a shift toward “ultra-concentration.”In this context, building a dynamic private sector capable of providing opportunities to the Arab world’s young workers will require even more vigilant and effective regulators, operating within a smart regulatory framework that addresses issues relating to the collection and use of data.
Asia’s Stifled ServicesMANILA – The eurozone crisis has dominated discussion among policymakers over the last few years, but the economic slowdown in Asia’s two
giants
– the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India – has become a source of growing public concern as well.
Pre-1914 Britain anticipated the private-public partnership that today links technology
giants
such as Google, Apple, or Verizon to US intelligence agencies.
The economic takeoff of these two
giants
started 40 years ago with the introduction of higher agricultural output and an end to famines.
Royal will do nothing to increase the flexibility of the French labor market so as to facilitate structural change and enable new firms to be created, while Sarkozy is likely to continue to support France’s lumbering giants, as he as done so frequently in the past.
The Treasury and Federal Reserve are adding preferred stock to the balance sheets of the US mortgage
giants
Fannie Mae and FHLBC and the insurance giant AIG in the hope of shoring up their capital cushions and lowering their borrowing costs so that they can buy more mortgages.
From Wall Street to AIG to Detroit, the US was quick to rescue corporate
giants
that would have failed otherwise.
In Davos, speaker after speaker touted the idea that even if China is ahead now, over the longer run, the race between Asia’s two
giants
is a toss-up.
And the biggest question of all – how to engage with China, India, and other
giants
of the future – has received virtually no attention from EU-level policymakers.
Because China continues to favor state capitalism and discriminates against the private sector, it lacks strong private firms that can take on Western multinational
giants.
For example, China, which used a protectionist industrial policy to nurture domestic digital
giants
like Baidu and Tencent, is now supporting these firms as they move deeper into development of new technologies and try to expand globally.
But these infant
giants
are quickly threatened with eclipse by even newer enterprises.
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