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The Russia Squeeze
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Washington’s new Russia sanctions give Donald Trump a powerful economic weapon, but India’s response will have to balance energy security, trade and strategic autonomy.
The United States has acquired a new weapon in its economic arsenal, and it is powerful...
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Electoral Example
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India’s election machinery has long been treated by its domestic critics as a convenient punching bag. Now, rather unexpectedly, America appears to be taking notes from its. U.S, President Donald Trump recently used a routine meeting between his ambassador to...
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The Discombobulator’s Iran Problem
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Following my piece last week wherein I had written on President Donald Trump’s claim that American forces allegedly used a mysterious weapon dubbed the ‘Discombobulator’ during its operation in Venezuela to depose Maduro, some readers have asked me that if...
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Decoding Trump’s Discombobulator
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The U.S. President’s latest military buzzword may be political theatre. Even so, it captures a profound shift towards wars fought by perceptions and paralysing systems.
When Donald Trump spoke of a mysterious “Discombobulator” after the dramatic American operation that captured...
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Oil, Missiles and the Gate of Tears
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As the Houthis target Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure, the widening West Asia conflict raises fresh concerns over global oil supplies and India’s economy.
As President Donald Trump struggles to extricate the United States from the increasingly intractable conflict with Iran,...
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Unending War
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The collapse of the United States-Iran ceasefire in less than a month is a stark reminder that peace in West Asia has become a remarkably perishable commodity. The ink on the ceasefire with Iran had scarcely dried before missiles are...
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Hard Bargain
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The proposed India-US trade agreement has now become a test of whether India can convert a turbulent global trading order into a lasting strategic and economic advantage. For decades, trade negotiations largely revolved around a familiar arithmetic of reducing tariffs...
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The Modi-Trump Contrast
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Though often grouped together as ‘nationalist strongmen,’ Narendra Modi and Donald Trump reveal strikingly different approaches to power, diplomacy and governance.
Politics in the 21st century has become increasingly personalised. Institutions still matter, but voters often view governments through the...
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The Price of the American Dream
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The fight over Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee reveals deeper tensions over immigration and presidential power
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While the urge to chase the American dream has remained unchanged for most Indians from past few decades, the Trump card...
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Strategic Warmth
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Donald Trump’s lavish praise of Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G7 summit offered a familiar lesson that in international affairs, there is often a vast gulf between atmospherics and reality. Whether it translates into warmer U.S. policy towards...
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Chaos Diplomacy
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Donald Trump has always understood one thing better than most modern politicians that markets respond to perception. In the grinding drama over Iran, the American president appears to have weaponised uncertainty itself. One day he hints at a diplomatic breakthrough...
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Anchoring India’s Resilient Future
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For nearly half a decade, the global geopolitical landscape has been stuck in a state of permanent turbulence. The protracted war in Ukraine, the protectionist tariff regimes of the Trump presidency, and the volatile escalation of hostilities between the United...
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