Ahead of the World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, which began on May 27, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had been urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to invite China’s Taiwan...
Not only are economic issues higher on people’s agenda than in post-Balakot 2019, but the Mandir effect more far more muted than the BJP expected and the stench of electoral bond corruption hangs on...
Desperate to increase vote share while protecting its Hindutva pitch, BJP needs to woo the OBCs. This explains its move to communalise reservation. Access full article at the Frontline website...
We found that underneath all the hype and hoop-la about India’s stellar economic performance and about the prime minister’s economic helmsmanship, on the ground there is no more important issue than that of unemployment....
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was recently in China to talk about its “clean energy overcapacity.” What can that possibly mean? At a time when the world needs more and cheaper clean energy equipment to...
A new presidential election year has produced a new attack on Tiktok. Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed ban on TikTok in 2020 was overturned by the current U.S. President Joe Biden, in an...
In 2023, China-U.S. relations first nosedived over the “spy balloon” incident and then appeared to improve. The resumption of military dialogue and cooperation on narcotics control bide well. Will 2024 bring further improvement? One...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stated in his pre-ministerial press conference on the eve of the NATO Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Brussels on November 28 and 29, that the almost 75-year-old organization faces “the most...
Rarely has a summit between the world’s two most important countries been burdened with fewer expectations. Rarely has the world, bristling with problems both urgent and persistent – from proliferating conflicts, renewed nuclear threats,...
Few will doubt that one of the most important things the world needs is better relations between its two biggest economies and greatest powers. This is the sine qua non for addressing the world’s...