The emerging discipline of Complex Choices explores the rationale behind defining purposes, generating ideas, and dissecting decisions, thereby increasing probability of success in personal life, organisations or public policy. Prof Anil K Sood, founder at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Complex Choices (IASCC), explains the applications of this intriguing subject, and discusses the government’s enforcement of lockdown and economic management as well as US-China trade war from the prism of Complex Choices.