India's 'no' at WTO may just mean 'not yet'Farmers shout slogans as they burn an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other ministers at a protest site at Shambhu Barrier, the border between Punjab and Haryana states, on Friday. India's welfare state, like so many others, is not set up for modern concerns and problems. This very week, some of India's farmers are protesting again -- a reminder that, if India says no, it is because a large subset of Indians are saying no. And a large subset of Indians can often mean a group of people larger than the populations of most WTO member states. India's "no" at the WTO is sometimes "not just yet".


Source:   Bangkok Post
February 27, 2024 01:55 UTC