Resolving ongoing conflicts to counter China E Tv Bharat 16 Feb 2025President Trump’s team comprises largely of China hawks. Secretary of State Marc Rubio had regularly called out Beijing in his days as a Senator. He criticized China’s human rights records, its Belt Road Initiative resulting in debt traps etc. In fact, Beijing had sanctioned him twice and he is […]
Managing illegal immigrants The Excelsior 15 Feb 2025Illegal immigrants are not a US problem alone. They exist all over the world, spreading from the American continent to Europe to India. The US has illegals from all parts of the globe, traversing treacherous routes, entering ultimately through Mexico or Canada. Europe has them arriving either by land or sea, largely from […]
Russia-Ukraine War Speeded Up Development and Manufacturing Of New Equipment ETv Bharat 11 Feb 2025On 24 Feb 2025, the Ukrainian conflict will enter its fourth year. A change in the White House resulted in Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian President, offering to commence talks to end the conflict. In an interview to British journalist Piers Morgan, Zelensky, in response to how […]
Can India deal with a bullying Trump The Statesman 11 Feb 2025Trump, following his election, has been pushing his agenda considering it pro-US, based on his election manifesto of MAGA (Make America Great Again). While every national leader is primarily interested in the wellbeing of his own people, yet carries allies along, on occasions ignoring their few shortcomings, even if […]
The Trump era begins The Statesman 28 Jan 2025Donald Trump commenced his first day in office by signing a slew of executive orders, 26 in total, covering a vast variety of subjects. The same pace in issue of executive orders as also sacking of previously appointed individuals, continues. He has stopped all aid, less to Israel and Turkey. He appears […]
Ceasefire agreement marks new chapter in Israel-Hamas conflict E TV Bharat 21 Jan 2025Israel and Hamas have accepted a ceasefire deal which kicked in on Sunday. The deal, pushed through detailed negotiations spread over months, comes into effect just as Biden finishes his tenure as US President. Both, Biden and Trump, have taken credit for the ceasefire, with Trump claiming […]
The embattled ICC The Excelsior 17th Jan 2025Last weekend, the US House of Representatives passed a bill termed as the ‘Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act’ which seeks to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC). The bill proposes to freeze property assets and deny visas to any foreigners who materially or financially contributed to the court’s efforts to ‘investigate, arrest, detain or […]
American role in targeting India The Statesman 14 Jan 2025Two recent reports emerging in The Washington Post have intentionally been published, without checking facts, intending to lower India’s image at a time when there is a government change in the US. The first was an article stating that India was scheming with politicians of Maldives to have the current pro-China […]
The Americans never learn The Statesman 24 Dec 2024The Arab Spring, which began in 2011, was dubbed as the starting point in removal of dictators in West Asia and North Africa. The latest to face this change is Syria where Bashar al-Assad was recently overthrown by a loose rebel alliance led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), after over fifty years […]
Syria after Assad’s fall The Statesman 17 Dec 2024Syrian rebel forces captured Damascus and forced President Bashar al-Assad to flee to Moscow with his family where he has been granted refuge. In just over a week, the Hayat Tahir al-Sham (HTS), translated into ‘Organization for the liberation of the Levant,’ backed by Turkey, captured the cities of Aleppo, Hama and […]