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Opinion | BrahMos For Philippines: A Symbolic Win In The Choppy Indo-Pacific

A new phase in India's defence ties with the Philippines commenced last week when the Indian Air Force handed the first batch of BrahMos supersonic...

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Opinion | Indian Diplomacy Needs To Be In Top Gear Amid Iran-Israel Face-Off

The Middle East is on tenterhooks, again. A dangerous slide into an all-out war is being feared by most even as few seem capable of doing anything...

16.04.2024 9

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Opinion | Ukraine's India Outreach, And The Search For New Friends

The Russia-Ukraine war shows no signs of ending any time soon. The death and destruction is all-pervasive, but both sides continue to insist that they...

02.04.2024 7

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Opinion | 10 Years Of Modi's Foreign Policy: Aspiration Meets Self-Assurance

A day might be a long time in politics, but in foreign policy, even a decade is usually not long enough to merit a serious appraisal. The last decade,...

21.03.2024 40

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Opinion: Muizzu's China Tilt Hurts Maldives Far More Than India

Last week, the Maldives and China signed a defence pact "on China's provision of military assistance gratis to the Republic of Maldives", underlining...

11.03.2024 10

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Opinion: Pakistan-It's A Rocky Road Ahead For Shehbaz Sharif, Thanks To Imran

While India enters its own season of general elections, Pakistan's poll cycle seems to be ending with Shehbaz Sharif taking over the nation's prime...

05.03.2024 8

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Opinion: Two Years Of Russia-Ukraine Crisis - This Is A War With No Winners

Alexei Navalny, one of Russia's most prominent opposition figures, has died, becoming another one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's critics who...

22.02.2024 10

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Opinion: Qatar Release Is A Landmark In Modi's Middle East Success Story

There are moments in a nation's trajectory when its arrival on the global scene is heralded by the quality of its leadership. The decision by Qatar to...

13.02.2024 20

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Opinion: Pakistan Polls - Imran Khan's Is A Remarkable Feat In This Twisted Spectacle

Even as one circus of the absurd has ended in Pakistan, another has begun. The farcical nature of the electoral exercise in the country has produced...

10.02.2024 8

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Opinion: Modi, Macron And the World

French President Emmanuel Macron may be facing political trouble at home but his visit to India, full of pomp and ceremony, underscored the special...

27.01.2024 10

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Opinion: The Dystopia That Is American Democracy Today

The world is passing through a phase of disorder, which is posing serious policy questions for nations big and small. But the one country that should...

19.01.2024 10

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Opinion: India Should Let Maldives Learn The Cost Of A Chinese Embrace

Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu has made it clear that he has no intention of bringing Delhi-Male ties from the edge of a precipice. In fact, he...

16.01.2024 10

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Opinion: Maldives Should Avoid Provoking New Delhi

In this day and age of social media, diplomacy is facing new challenges. At times, the cacophony of social media drowns out the really important...

09.01.2024 7

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Chinese and Russian choices impact India’s approach

Foreign policy is a murky business. All nations across the world, given a choice, would want to be strategically autonomous. That is, they would want...

26.12.2023 9

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Opinion: The Year India Engaged The World On Its Own Terms

As we bid adieu to the year 2023, we are witnessing a global order that has been fundamentally reconfigured - politically, economically and...

25.12.2023 9

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Opinion: Article 370 Judgment - Boost For India On Global Stage

A process that started in August 2019 finally culminated this week when the Supreme Court placed its seal of approval on the Narendra Modi...

13.12.2023 6

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Opinion: The Kissinger Overhang On Contemporary Global Politics

It was perhaps inevitable that Henry Kissinger would be as controversial in his death as he was during his life. His obituaries reflect the...

01.12.2023 3

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Opinion: Rishi Sunak's Big Bold Gambit - Or Is It Desperation?

British politics has once again taken a turn with the cabinet reshuffle ushered in by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak this week. The sacking of Suella...

15.11.2023 6

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Opinion: The Curious Case Of US Presidential Election

A year from now, the US will have a new President but the nation's electoral challenge is getting curiouser and curiouser. An incumbent President,...

09.11.2023 2

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Opinion: India's Challenge In Qatar With 8 Ex-Navy Officers On Death Row

At a time when the Middle East is passing through a delicate phase, India's challenges in the region grew even more serious last week when the Court...

30.10.2023 10

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The return of hard power: Naive approaches were bound to fail

As conflict escalates in the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war shows no sign of petering out in Europe, nations, large and small, are...

29.10.2023 4

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Opinion: China Envisions A New World Order Via BRI

Reaffirming his nation's commitment to continue pouring billions of dollars into the economies of developing countries as the Belt and Road Initiative...

21.10.2023 10

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Opinion: As Israel-Hamas Crisis Escalates, Indian Diplomacy Under Pressure

As tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East, diplomacy too has picked up pace with US President Joe Biden deciding to visit Israel to assess...

18.10.2023 6

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Opinion: Israel-Gaza War - A Major Shock And A Few Lessons

As if the world was not grappling with enough instability, the renewed conflagration between Israel and Palestinians has added another, more dangerous...

08.10.2023 10

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Opinion: The Trudeau Problem in Canada

It's been a tough few days for the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Nothing, it seems, is going right for him. His domestic popularity has...

27.09.2023 20

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The G20 showed India’s foreign policy is exploring new territory

As the G20 summit successfully concluded in New Delhi last week, it managed to generate some positive headlines for India globally. Even India’s...

17.09.2023 10

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