Joyeeta Basu

No-bilateral was PM’s message to Xi

September 20, 2022

The most important “statement” made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the SCO summit in Uzbekistan’s Samarkand was, in reality, not a statement, but the message that he sent out by not meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in a bilateral on the sidelines of the summit. The message was clear:...

TUCKER CARLSON NEEDS TO STUDY HISTORY

September 15, 2022

US TV presenter Tucker Carlson was busy bashing the Joe Biden government recently when he compared the US exit from Afghanistan with the apparently benign exit of Britain from India. In the process, he made a collateral damage out of India, by claiming that the English gave India a civilisation....

THE US MAKES THE WRONG CHOICE, ONCE AGAIN

September 13, 2022

The United States has decided to provide Pakistan with a US$450 million F-16 sustainment program. Apparently, Pakistan will be provided with spare parts that will help it maintain its jets, some of which are more than 40 years old, in flying condition. No new weapons or capabilities are being provided...

REDEVELOPED CENTRAL VISTA IS A BREAK FROM COLONIAL PAST

September 6, 2022

The power centre of the Indian capital has got a major and much needed makeover and is all set to open its doors to the world this week with the inauguration of the Central Vista by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At the heart of this gigantic project is the new...

INDIA’S STRATEGIC AUTONOMY IS RESEMBLING STRATEGIC CONFUSION

September 1, 2022

This is the age of strategic autonomy in foreign policy, we are told. Our policy is all about “India first” and apparently, “strategic autonomy” helps us serve this policy. It’s but natural that any country will look after its own interests, before trying to save the rest of the world....

INDIA IN AMRIT KAAL

August 18, 2022

From the time Narendra Modi has become Prime Minister for the first time in 2014, his speeches on Independence Day have gone beyond listing the achievements of the government and walked into a territory where a very strong reformist streak comes to the surface, with the aim being to reform...

WEST NEEDS TO LISTEN TO INDIA ON UKRAINE VS RUSSIA

August 9, 2022

This month it will be six months of the Russia-Ukraine conflict—six months of non-stop war and sanctions that have endangered food security all around the globe and led to increasing oil prices and skyrocketing inflation. The majority of the economies around the world are predicted to be sliding into recession....

NANCY PELOSI STANDS UP TO CHINA

August 4, 2022

Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi must be congratulated for being steadfast in her decision to visit Taiwan, in spite of opposition from US President Joe Biden. Biden was rather circumspect about Pelosi’s visit, saying that it may exacerbate tensions with China. But Pelosi went ahead nonetheless....

LANKA SHOULD REFUSE CHINESE ‘RESEARCH’ SHIP ACCESS TO HAMBANTOTA

August 2, 2022

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence confirmed on Saturday that a Chinese “research” vessel is set to berth at Hambantota port from 11 to 17 August for the purpose of “replenishment, including fuel”. This came after the Sri Lankan authorities denied for days that the ship, Yuan Wang 5, would be...

MAKE INDIA CHINA-PROOF

July 28, 2022

Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a congratulatory message to newly elected President Droupadi Murmu, said that “China and India are important neighbours of each other, and that a healthy and stable China-India relationship is in line with the fundamental interests of the two countries and their people, as well as...

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