29 Sep 2021
Samir Saran & Mihir Swarup Sharma
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All good things must come to an end, and so must illusions of the promised common future. A fundamental assumption long held by many in the West is that the multilateral institutions instated over the six post-War decades would serve to constrain and direct the “peaceful rise” of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It…
20 Mar 2021
Samir Saran & S.Paul Kapur
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Although the Pacific and Indian Oceans have traditionally been viewed as separate bodies of water, India and the US increasingly understand them as part of a single contiguous zone. The US Maritime Strategy (2015), for example, labels the region the ‘Indo-Asia-Pacific’, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump referred to it in their…
10 Feb 2021
Chitra Subramaniam
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India must talk trade, for its people by its people and with its people. What India needs today is not a paradigm shift, a new narrative nor a strategy but hard work, focus and commitment aimed at creating nearly 20 million jobs the economy will consume year on year. If you think global trade negotiations…
24 Sep 2020
Ashwin Ahmad
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The recently held summit between China and the European Union showed all too well the souring of the relationship. From the European side, the inability of Beijing to offer ‘reciprocity’ and ‘basic fairness’ when it came to opening up the Chinese market to European goods was just part of the reason why the one day…
1 Sep 2020
Chitra Subramaniam
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It is not a Moody’s, but its power in Switzerland, an international centre for banking and financial advice and signals, is as substantial as it is understated. The Swiss Association for Responsible Investments SVVK has excluded four of India’s sterling companies – Tata Power, L&T, Bharat Dynamics and Walchandnagar Industries – in a nuclear weapons…
10 Aug 2020
Chitra Subramaniam
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On May 13, 1998, India became a full-fledged nuclear state joining the ranks of the United Nations P5 (US, UK, France, Russia and China). A European diplomat asked me why India required a nuclear weapon in an unstable part of the world. The patronizing framing of that question notwithstanding, I had one answer and a…