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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 21 December, 2018

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

How Google is spying on us (Guardian)

Open Letter to Barkha Dutt (Abhijit Iyer-Mitra)

Rahul Gandhi, the Economic Saboteur (Jaggi)

Iraq’s post-ISIS campaign of revenge (New Yorker)

How UAE is profiting from the Yemen war (Guardian)

Assad wins in Syria (Time)

How CTrip is changing global tourism (SCMP)

Bureaucrats under scanner (Gossip Guru)

Mir Sultan Khan: The unsung chess genius (Madras Courier)

The best time to wake up (Daily O)

Tech is killing Street Food (Atlantic)

The untold story of Kashmiri Pheran (Outlook)

1919: A Portrait (Open)

Priya Varrier’s wink (Mint)

Obituary: Chennai’s Rs. 5 Doctor (BI)

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Steel

Steel King

Astounding to see China’s share in global steel production

Source: Annual Report 2017-18 of Maithan Alloys Ltd

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Excerpts

This Means War

“As evidenced by this investigation, the threats we face have never been more pervasive or more potentially damaging to our national security. And no country poses a broader, more severe, and long-term threat to our nation’s economy and cyber infrastructure than China.

China’s goal, simply put, is to replace the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower—and they’re breaking the law to get there. They’re using an expanding set of non-traditional and illegal methods. And Chinese state-sponsored actors are the most active perpetrators of economic espionage against us.

In short, they seek to strengthen themselves and weaken the United States. And while we welcome fair competition, we cannot and will not tolerate illegal hacking, stealing, and cheating.

This is conduct that hurts American businesses, American jobs, and American consumers. The Chinese government’s not pulling any punches. They want what we have so they can get the upper hand on us. And they’re highly strategic in their approach—they’re playing the long game.”

FBI Director’s Christopher Wray’s Remarks

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Links

Linkfest: 21 December, 2018

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Farm loan waiver may give banks 1.5 L Cr headache (ET)

Govt gives tax relief to startups (Mint)

US-China trade war intensifies (CNBC)

Interview with Vijay Kedia (MC)

On Indian retail investors (BQ)

The Jhunjhnuwala Brothers (Forbes)

Company Profile: Skechers India (OB)

How to prepare your portfolios for bear markets (Ian Cassel)

Where we’re going (Irrelevant Investor)

Putting panic in perspective (Swedroe)

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MegaTrends

Mega Trend: India QSR

Source: Annual Report of Jubilant Foodworks Ltd 2017-18