Kiran D. Tare

Ashley Tellis’ arrest exposes how Chinese influence operations and think-tank funding networks have blurred the line between scholarship and statecraft. For decades Ashley J. Tellis was the cleverest man in the room. A Mumbai-born academic who climbed to the summit of Washington’s strategic establishment, he helped craft the Bush administration’s civil-nuclear deal with India, taught realism to idealists, and wrote with the serene assurance of one who believed himself indispensable to the...

From halting the violence in Gaza to confronting Putin over Ukraine, Trump’s high-stakes diplomacy has reasserted U.S. influence at a time of global uncertainty. Donald Trump has always believed the world needs a teacher and that the teacher is him. Few politicians so nakedly revel in self-congratulation, yet few can deny that the former property magnate has once again placed himself at the centre of global diplomacy. The guns in Gaza have fallen silent. Hostages have returned home....

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize honours Venezuelan leader of opposition Machado even as Donald Trump’s self-aggrandising claims fail to...