Skipping the Gaza peace summit The Excelsior 18 Oct 2025 PM Modi skipped the Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh despite personal invitations from both hosts, US President Donald Trump and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. This was considered by some as India missing a major opportunity on the global stage. Shashi Tharoor in a tweet termed it […]
Trump’s Pakistan tilts highlights limits of India’s trust in the US First Post 14 Oct 2025 Pakistan’s sudden found bonhomie with the US has given their hybrid government a feeling that their relations with the US, frozen for almost a decade, are on the heal and that they can depend on Washington for support, especially during a conflict with […]
How Trump trapped Pakistan into the Gaza peace plan First Post 07 Oct 2025 Shehbaz Sharief and failed marshal Asim Munir celebrated their recent visit to Washington and meeting Donald Trump as a sign of increased bonhomie between Islamabad and Washington, unaware as to why they were entertained by Trump. Reality dawned with the release of the Gaza peace plan […]
Trump’s Sharif-Munir photo-op may sway Pakistanis, but can’t forge enduring ties First Post 30 Sep 2025 Against all norms the Trump-Sharief meeting conducted in the White House was closed to the press. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State, Marc Rubio, were present. From Pakistan’s side Shehbaz Sharief was accompanied by the army chief, failed marshal Asim Munir. […]
Will Pak- Saudi pact impact India The Statesman 23 Sept 2025 The killing of Jamaal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018 led to Riyadh facing global flak. US President Biden, promised to hold Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accountable. Everything changed a year later when the US began courting Riyadh to stem the Chinese challenge to […]
India’s delicate balancing of US, Russia and China ties reflects political realism First Post 17 Sep 2025 Photographs of Putin, Xi and Modi walking, smiling and conversing throughout the SCO summit is haunting Washington as never before. US political commentator Van Jones mentioned, ‘the image of Xi Jinping with Putin, with Modi from India, with the leader of Iran, […]
India’s balancing act in Tianjin The Statesman 09 Sep 2025 The recently concluded SCO summit in Tianjin displayed India’s ability to balance ties with different groupings. Contrary to views, New Delhi’s attempts to resolve its differences with Beijing are not due to tariffs imposed by Trump, though they are factored in, but a desire to restore normalcy along a […]
Despite US tariffs India is the nation in limelight The Statesman 02 Sep 2025 With passage of time Donald Trump’s Alaska summit appears to not only have failed but also displayed a changing world order. Sanctions on India for procuring Russian oil and thereby funding their war machinery was aimed at pressurizing India into switching alliances. India refused to […]
Mixed signals from the Trump administration 26 Aug 2025 The US Under Secretary for Defence, Elbridge Colby, stated in a tweet on 14th Aug, while referring to the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Japan, ‘That is the policy we are carrying to our allies in the Asia-Pacific.’ Why the switch from ‘Indo-Pacific to Asia-Pacific?’ This was not corrected […]
Why strategic partnership with America cannot be one-sided First Post 21 Aug 2025 White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro in a strongly worded article in the Financial Times accused India of cozying up to Russia and China. Simultaneously, he accused India of ‘acting as a global clearinghouse for Russian oil, converting embargoed crude into high-value exports while giving Moscow […]