Joyeeta Basu

2023 comes with baggage of 2022

January 3, 2023

Looking ahead into 2023, looking back at 2022 is inevitable, given that the New Year comes with the baggage of last year. As if the disruption of food and energy security caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent economic sanctions imposed by the West were...

Oversharing of military information
best avoided

December 20, 2022

Looking at the turmoil in Parliament created by the Opposition, demanding a debate and revelation of more information on the clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang the question that arises is: what’s there to debate about a war-like situation, in fact an actual hand-to-hand combat? Defence...

War is always on China’s mind, not peace

December 15, 2022

There is a sense of inevitability about the news of the latest violent clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, where the Chinese side tried to occupy a 17,000-feet high peak and were forced to retreat by their Indian counterparts. It is inevitable that these two...

Congress was its own enemy in Gujarat, not AAP

December 13, 2022

While looking at the Gujarat Assembly election results, the Aam Aadmi Party factor in Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory and Congress’ loss is being overstated by many analysts and politicians, particularly those from the Congress. Former Union Minister and Congress leader P. Chidambaram said in an interview on Sunday, that it...

India-US relations irritate China

December 1, 2022

In a 196-page report titled, “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2022”, which the Pentagon presented to the US Congress, India finds several mentions in the context of the threat that China’s aggressive military policies pose to India’s territorial integrity. At one place the report mentions,...

Xi Jinping must resign

November 29, 2022

Some are calling it the “white paper revolution”, others the “blank paper protests” or the “A4 revolution” where civilians hold up a piece of blank paper of A4 size, to register their protest against their authoritarian government. Characterised as “passive aggression”, the protests are spreading—from campus to campus, from city...

This is India’s time, don’t blow it

November 24, 2022

China has ceased to be the world’s best place for business, a fact that is more than apparent by now. The tide started to turn from 2020, when with the onset of Covid, China shut down city after city, disrupting supply chains the world over. Everyone got a rude wake-up...

Qatar proving to be unfit to host the World Cup

November 22, 2022

What is Qatar’s claim to football-fame for it to be the host of one of the biggest international sporting events, the FIFA World Cup? One win in an Asia Cup tournament in 2019 out of ten such appearances? As it became apparent at Sunday’s inaugural match, the Qataris were no...

Mr Biden, China will not change its spots

November 15, 2022

According to the Chinese, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not tell Xi Jinping that he was going to invade Ukraine—presumably during Putin’s Beijing visit for the Winter Olympics—and that the Chinese were in a state of shock when it happened on 24 February 2022. To add some credibility to the...

Don’t let the Ukraine war hijack G20

November 10, 2022

This month will mark the culmination of Indonesia’s G20 presidency. India takes over the presidency for a year from 1 December. Next week’s G20 leaders’ summit will take place in Bali, Indonesia, where the leaders of the 20 countries—actually 19 and the European Union—that are a part of G20 will...

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