On Wednesday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to arrive in New York City for a historic state visit to the United States. His visit will commence with the most unusual PR spectacle. Even before he meets US President Joe Biden, or addresses a joint sitting of Congress, or is serenaded by an adoring Indian American…
China will always remain one of Russia’s top energy partners for economic, geographic, and political reasons, but Moscow doesn’t want to become dependent on exports to the People’s Republic, which is why it’s preemptively diversifying by betting big on South Asia in general and on India in particular. Several interconnected developments this month prove that…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visits abroad are carefully choreographed events, given their optics domestically. Perhaps, this is even more so today as general elections loom ahead and in Hiroshima, Modi was taking the stage after the crushing defeat in the Karnataka election, which was as much political for the ruling BJP as personal for Modi…
Make no mistake about what the G7’s Hiroshima Communique is all about. The setting: a city in neo-colony Japan nuclear-bombed 78 years ago by the United States, for which it made no excuses. The message: the G7, actually G9 (augmented by two unelected Eurocrats) declares war – hybrid and otherwise – against BRICS+, which has…
The Foreign Secretary’s special briefing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Asia-Pacific tour (May 19-24) dovetailed skilfully into three summit meetings, and brings to mind an institution of the Middle Ages known as the “wandering minstrels”. Wealthy people used to employ minstrels to entertain them in their homes. These wandering minstrels told stories, recited poems, sang…
China and Pakistan have an interest in jointly coordinating a media campaign to raise wider awareness of their respective claims to Kashmir, which could strengthen their strategic partnership at a crucial time while worsening ties with India. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Friday that his country won’t attend next week’s G20 event…
