China’s debt diplomacy challenged by new players
The LDS Church has offered to help Tonga with its sovereign debt to China. LONDON: So, this is a...
China forcing a shift in strategic map
China is building new islands in the South China Sea, and equipping them in ways resembling military bases. Our...
Climate disruptions are also about politics and economics, as about environment
We need to look at insurance, zoning, locations of critical infrastructure and more to understand what kind of risk we...
India can learn from UK’s low cost, high impact geopolitics
So, this is interesting. At last week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in London, the United Kingdom announced it was...
Things can only get better between India and Canada
On 17 February, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in India for a week-long visit. He has brought his wife,...
‘More India and less China, please’
The world needs more India and less China—that’s according to many of the members of the global strategic community who...
Fire and Fury explodes like an IED in Washington Beltway
Michael Wolff’s new book about the Donald Trump presidency, Fire and Fury, has exploded like an IED (Improvised Editorial Device)...
Catalan crisis tests EU’s limits
The problem for the European Union is that it doesn’t have a Sardar Patel. Deep in the heart of many...
President Trump: Here there be monsters?
NEW DELHI: The modern incarnations of Humphrey from Yes, Prime Minister excel in keeping their pet politicians on leash through...
Foreign relations: 2017 likely to be a good year for India
Kochi: 2016 planted the seeds for some fundamental changes around the globe—a Donald Trump Presidency, Brexit, demonetisation, migration waves in...
What now for Trump’s America?
London: So here’s what just happened. President-elect Donald J. Trump blew up the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, major funders,...
Look beyond the Presidential race, don’t miss the Senate vote
London. The men who designed the American system of governance didn’t trust each other. Having just won independence from a...
Trump or Hillary, India’s foreign policy set to get complicated
Ottawa: With less than two weeks to go before the US election, many in Delhi, and beyond, are wondering which...
The big debate in US is about the media
MONTREAL: In the United States this past week, the big debate wasn’t Trump versus Clinton, it was Drudge versus Huffington....
2016 is year of the ‘Deplorables’
WASHINGTON: This is the cycle: concern, discounting, hardening, attack. We’ve seen the cycle repeat all year, from Brexit in the...
Hillary has to cross the Trans-Pacific hurdle
MONTREAL: This past week, at its convention in Philadelphia, the Democratic Party officially chose Hillary Clinton as its candidate for...
