Best of BS Opinion: The myth of rational voter, the lost republic, and more

The Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday that China was increasing troops along the Line of Actual Control since early May and India had to make a counter deployment. With rising border tension, some believe that India should respond in economic terms by cutting imports from China. This may not be easy. Business Standard opinion pieces of the day talk about India’s economic response to China among other issues 

There is every reason to distrust the weight that an increasingly geo-politically aggressive China occupies in the global trading system and within the Indian economy in particular. But the solution