In U.S. backyard: How China embedded itself in Canada
Since the 1970s, there have been important political and economic pro-China vectors emanating out of Montreal and Ottawa. Since then,...
How Canada became dangerously compliant to China
The baseline was hug a PLA soldier and ride off on a unicorn into a trust-based sunset together. It wasn’t...
India-China: The shove felt around the world
India showed itself, and others, it could lead on a comprehensive national pushback on China. Now, it is scaling that...
Did China help rig the South Korean election?
One of the probable goals of the manipulation, for the CCP at least, is to nurture a political constellation in...
How to burst CCP’s balloon
The thing that scares the CCP even more than a country pushing back on multiple fronts, is countries banding together...
How Kiribati was lost to China
While China builds a fish plant that gives jobs to I-Kiribati in Kiribati, Australia promotes a scheme where young men...
Watch China’s actions, don’t listen to its words
Beijing’s parasitic model weakens the global economy, its traditional hosts are becoming poorer. Which is likely one of the reasons...
World tries to shake off its dangerous China addiction
Across political divide, there are focused efforts to make serious changes to the way the US does business with China,...
Time to practice social distancing from CCP
How many times does CCP have to lie before we just say, ‘ok, they are liars’? Miami: It’s time to...
Boris has a clear run, but also a long road ahead of him
Boris Johnson won a decisive majority in Parliament. He is no longer politically tethered to a Northern Ireland political party....
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....
