Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
The Pakistani political leadership is weak and devoid of any intellect. Its diplomacy is entirely India-China-US focused and suffers from a presumptive view of Afghanistan as a vassal.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
By next weekend, Bangladesh will have an elected government. This is India’s moment to reboot broken ties by moderating the ‘ghuspethiya’ rhetoric in poll-bound West Bengal and Assam.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
As social media debated whether audiences were consuming Pujarini Pradhan as a symbol, The Juggernaut turned her into a story that could circulate globally, with or without her participation.
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
This is a minority view in India. Often feel diffident expressing it. China is doing many things right, notably on the economy. Generating global best practices, as they once borrowed some best practices from Singapore when their trek to greatness began in 1978. How India should manage its relationship with China is a complex question. At least on economic engaged, the full spectrum of trade and investment, India should be much more open to China. We stayed away from RCEP out of fears that they would swamp us with their exports. If anything, our trade deficit with them has doubled during this time, from $ 60 billion to about $ 120 billion. Give them a list of goods and services that India can sell a lot more of and urge them to help reduce the deficit.
Good research. But wasn’t Gupta knocking down the idea of Atmanirbharta only a few years back ?
This is a minority view in India. Often feel diffident expressing it. China is doing many things right, notably on the economy. Generating global best practices, as they once borrowed some best practices from Singapore when their trek to greatness began in 1978. How India should manage its relationship with China is a complex question. At least on economic engaged, the full spectrum of trade and investment, India should be much more open to China. We stayed away from RCEP out of fears that they would swamp us with their exports. If anything, our trade deficit with them has doubled during this time, from $ 60 billion to about $ 120 billion. Give them a list of goods and services that India can sell a lot more of and urge them to help reduce the deficit.
This is the fate of our socialist India. No money, no brain, no firepower, no honesty; only corruption, socialism, garbage, and pollution.