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The Congress perhaps sees that China’s power poses a great challenge to India and that the US must be a part of the answer

The Left and Congress critique of the BJP government’s foreign policy, uneven though it might be, challenges a widespread view that consensus and...

17.04.2024 20

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Imperatives for the US and China toengage are real. So are the contradictionsbetweenWashington and Beijing

When the Joe Biden administration described its China strategy as “responsible competition”, many analysts in India and beyond dismissed it as...

10.04.2024 10

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Island states and territories from the South Pacific to the African coast have become new nodes in India’s changing strategic geography

Delhi’s surprising focus on Katchatheevu, an island in the narrow strip of waters between India and Sri Lanka, is a part of the ruling BJP’s...

03.04.2024 30

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What the Oppn could do is remind the nation that India will remain a distant third to the US and China and there are gigantic tasks at hand to reduce the gap

One of the subtle but significant changes in the conduct of India’s foreign policy over the last decade has been the evolution of its diplomatic...

27.03.2024 20

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The lack of a foreign policy debate today is less about a genuine consensus than declining interest in world affairs within demoralised Oppn

India might be polarised on various domestic issues in this general election, but there is hardly any political argument on foreign policy. Is this...

20.03.2024 10

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A possible Donald Trump presidency is worrying US's allies

A recent headline in Nikkei Asia, a leading English-language publication from Japan, said America’s allies in the Indo-Pacific “tremble at the...

13.03.2024 10

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The costs are higher in Pakistan, where the new government is weak and hobbled by multiple domestic challenges

As Shehbaz Sharif t akes charge as the Prime Minister of Pakistan this week, the focus inevitably turns to the prospects for ending the current...

05.03.2024 30

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This election season, they are melding into a powerful political stream that seeks to make America a Christian nation

As he races to clinch the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, Donald Trump is intensifying the outreach to America’s Christian...

28.02.2024 10

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For India, “intelligence diplomacy” has become critical amidst the expanding scale and scope of its security challenges

Three major events this week draw attention to the expanding Indian diplomatic footprint. One is the annual Raisina Dialogue, hosted this week by the...

19.02.2024 10

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The new terms of endearment with the Arabian Gulf constitute one of the most significant gains for Indian diplomacy in recent decades

It is perhaps fitting that one of his last international trips in his second term as Prime Minister takes Narendra Modi to the United Arab Emirates...

14.02.2024 20

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Internal and external conditions confronting Pakistan Army General are far more demanding than those that tested his predecessors

This week’s story from Pakistan is not about who might win the national and provincial assembly elections there; it centres on army chief General...

07.02.2024 20

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India must avoid the nationalist hubris that has undermined Beijing’s fortunes

Writing in the Financial Times a few weeks ago, well-known investor and fund manager Ruchir Sharma highlighted the irreversible decline of China’s...

31.01.2024 10

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The challenge for Modi and Macron does not lie in abstract conceptions like ‘multipolarity’ and ‘strategic autonomy’

Will there be anything more than pomp and show during French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to India this week? To be sure, the two leaders...

24.01.2024 20

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The new alliance between Russia and China has presented the West with the greatest challenge since World War II

Three summits this week — one in Davos, Switzerland and the other two (NAM and G77) in Kampala, Uganda — point to the shifting terrain of global...

17.01.2024 20

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What happens in the US will certainly not stay within the US

In a year of elections around the world, here is one where the incumbent president calls his predecessor a Nazi. The former president accuses his...

10.01.2024 40

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No, the US-led global order is not collapsing

Is the US-led global order collapsing? The military stalemate in Ukraine, the widening war in the Middle East, and the Chinese assertiveness in Asia...

03.01.2024 10

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Delhi must find ways to gain ground in a changing Subcontinent

Has India lost the Subcontinent? The lament on “losing” South Asia becomes louder when “negative” (from Delhi’s perspective) developments...

27.12.2023 20

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Political unity against Russia in early 2022 is yielding place to divisions

As 2023 draws to a close, a spectre haunts Europe — the spectre of Donald Trump returning to the White House in the US Presidential elections at...

20.12.2023 30

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For Delhi, building peace and prosperity in J&K is key to permanently changing international attitudes

The Supreme Court’s judgment this week, validating the abolition of Article 370 for Jammu and Kashmir and the separation of Ladakh from it —...

13.12.2023 20

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Many issues that animate AI governance today are similar to those the world faced at the dawn of the nuclear age

All current discussions on the geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence inevitably hark back to the nuclear experience. As the world recalls the...

06.12.2023 30

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Smaller states in the region have gone from being ‘pawns’ in fights between India and China, to using the big powers as ‘pawns’

The international evolution of the Maldives has long been framed in terms of the entrenched geopolitical rivalry between India and China. The new...

29.11.2023 10

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Renewing political and economic engagement does not solve India’s problem of rebuilding peace on the frontier

As India’s Quad partners — Australia, Japan and the US — renew their high-level political engagement with China, should Delhi rethink its...

22.11.2023 20

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C Raja Mohan writes: India, 'killer robots' and the China challenge

Like all major technological advances, artificial intelligence poses major challenges to the world in developing responsible use in civil and military...

14.11.2023 2

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Unless the demand for personal vehicles comes down, any action to clean the air will be inadequate

Written by Anumita Roychowdhury As a severe smog episode persists in Delhi and the National Capital Region , emergency action has been taken to not...

10.11.2023 10

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GPS trackers on UAPA-accused don’t address fundamental issues, carry risks

On November 5, a Special Court in Jammu granted bail to Ghulam Mohd Bhat who has been accused of terror financing under the Unlawful Activities...

10.11.2023 20

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Prospect of Beijing’s dominance in AI use for economic, military purposes will be centre stage at 2+2 dialogue

As the foreign and defence ministers of India and the US gather in Delhi this week to review and advance the defence and security partnership,...

10.11.2023 10

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India will have to find its own voice on AI governance

The London summit this week on the safe use of Artificial Intelligence could be an important first step towards the global governance of a technology...

01.11.2023 7

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Middle East crisis has shown US capacity to manage different theatres of conflict simultaneously

The unexpected explosion of the Israel-Palestine conflict has raised questions about the potential overstretch in American grand strategy. Put...

27.10.2023 9

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India has much to lose if the current crisis in Gaza explodes into a wider regional war

If there was one big idea that captured the essence of independent India’s early thinking on the Middle East, it was the preference for modern...

21.10.2023 20

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The biggest change in India’s Middle East policy under Modi remains understated. It is the de-linking of India’s regional diplomacy from religion

It was not surprising that the horrible Hamas attack on Israel over the weekend quickly acquired a domestic political dimension in India. Over the...

11.10.2023 30

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Canada's entrenched culture of self-righteousness is to blame for current crisis

Strange as it may seem today, India and Canada were once bound by shared idealism and a liberal internationalist commitment to a normative global...

03.10.2023 10

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