India is taking baby steps toward green energy. Two of India’s biggest business houses are spearheading it — Adani and Ambani groups. India has made several ambitious commitments at the Glasgow climate summit and two key pledges were that India’s non-fossil energy capacity will reach 500 GW by 2030 and the country will transition to…
While it remains to be seen whether Pakistan will grotesquely transform from the “Zipper of Eurasia” into the “Faultline of Eurasia” like is feared, that scenario is still credible enough to seriously concern all stakeholders. South Asia’s Central Role In The Great Bifurcation The global systemic transition to multipolarity is leading to profound changes across…
No country should ever enter into a position of disproportionate dependence whereby they literally come to rely on anyone else, though nor should they isolate themselves from global processes either, hence the need to pragmatically strike a careful balance between these two goals exactly as Russia is doing. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov shared two bits…
Vietnamese-Indian relations remain an important axis of South-South cooperation that deserves to be followed more closely by intrepid observers going forward since these two states are crucial regional nodes of the emerging new Non-Aligned Movement (“Neo-NAM”) that’ll come to play a greater role in the future. Vietnam doesn’t usually come to mind right away when…
The US is no longer able to impose its will onto others like it did during the climax of the brief unipolar moment immediately after the end of the Old Cold War because rising multipolar Great Powers like India refuse to unilaterally concede on issues that they regard as being in their objective national interests….
The Indian leader was subtly conveying his government’s view that China is already a developed country with similar socio-economic metrics as its Western counterparts. By tacitly denying recognition of China’s self-identification as a developing country, not to mention its claim to being the largest one, India is sending a signal to the rest of the…
