<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Nalin Kumar Mohapatra"><item><title>India and the Shifting Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/india-and-the-shifting-geopolitics-of-the-indo-pacific/</link><pubDate>June 13, 2022, 3:55 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/India-and-the-Shifting-Geopolitics-of-the-Indo-Pacific-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region is undergoing a tectonic shift following the formation of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). While this framework will substantially weaken China’s dominance in the economic realms, it will provi...</excerpt></item><item><title>Ukraine war: Re-reading geopolitical contours of Russian foreign policy</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ukraine-war-re-reading-geopolitical-contours-of-russian-foreign-policy/</link><pubDate>May 11, 2022, 5:45 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/INDIA-WANTS-RUSSIA-UKRAINE-TALKS-TO-INCLUDE-‘SAFE-PASSAGE-FOR-ITS-NATIONALS.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The geopolitical narratives underlined by the Russian geopolitical thinkers provide a framework to examine the Russia-Ukraine war in a broader geopolitical context.  Though the war is in full swing, what needs to be underlined here is that the geo...</excerpt></item><item><title>Geopolitical fallout of Russia, Ukraine war in Central Asia</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/geopolitical-fallout-of-russia-ukraine-war-in-central-asia/</link><pubDate>April 6, 2022, 6:51 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/putin_reuters.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>In post-2016 phase, Russia tried to expand its greater influence and regain its lost space in Central Asia, both in geopolitical and geo-economic spheres, even though China is establishing its hegemony in the region.
</excerpt></item><item><title>﻿Isolated globally, is Russia hostage to China-Pak nexus?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/%ef%bb%bfisolated-globally-is-russia-hostage-to-china-pak-nexus/</link><pubDate>February 23, 2022, 8:08 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/a194c78a_7945_p_4_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>If Moscow continues to pursue its policy of engagement with Pakistan, then it will harm Russia’s geopolitical position in international community as it will send a wrong signal on its stand on terrorism</excerpt></item><item><title>Taliban takeover and Russia’s strategic miscalculation</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/taliban-takeover-and-russias-strategic-miscalculation/</link><pubDate>September 27, 2021, 6:03 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/e7ec7465_4518_P_4_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Russia will commit a strategic blunder by supporting the Taliban regime as the latter is not the legitimate voice of the Afghan people. This move will further isolate Moscow globally.</excerpt></item></author></feed>