Best of BS Opinion: Tackling China in Ladakh, Covid-19 crisis, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Dealing with China militarily can fasten on to tackling an impending economic recession. In that sense, things are more complicated now than in 1962. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

When it comes to dealing with China, it is time to shed kid gloves. Ajai Shukla explains    Read here

The Aatmanirbhar Bharat package has the much-needed focus on MSMEs, NBFCs, and the agri-sector, says Rajan Wadhera … what is needed is an immediate stimulus to boost demand, which has not happened   Read here

Dexamethasone will not “cure” Covid-19 even though it gives the critically ill a better fighting chance, says Devangshu Datta   Read here

Innovative and forward-looking thinking is needed to align the government package and other programmes with the needs of the service sector. Rupa Chanda and Pralok Gupta detail the requirement   Read here

T T Ram Mohan talks about what is needed for bank governance  Read here

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The Chinese will not move back, the Indian people will not tolerate (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi accepting the new status quo, so we will have to go to war, maybe a localised war.

BJP MP Subramanian Swamy