Opinion

Opinion | How Trump Is Doing More For BRICS Than Its Critics Ever Could

By trying to bully BRICS countries into submission, Trump may be giving the grouping the very relevance he is trying to deny

Opinion | Indus Treaty, Hague, And Pakistan's Endless Search For Leverage Over India

If the IWT survived all the trials in the past, it is because India's threshold of tolerance had been unusually high. But Pakistan must know that it can't arm-twist India through international pressure.

Opinion | The Gulf's New Defence Agreement Has A 'Credibility' Problem

There is much talk of this pact bringing peace and stability to the region. For this, the three countries involved must be stable and peaceful themselves.

Opinion | How Everything That Could Go Wrong Has Gone Wrong For The US In Iran

The Global South, which is the most vulnerable to the economic cost of high oil prices, is almost a mute spectator.

US Has No Regrets. Indian Sailor Killings Collateral Damage For Them

Three Indian mariners on a merchant ship off the coast of Iran and Oman are killed by the US Navy, but the US did not think it politically appropriate to express regret at this loss of life. Whatever the circumstances that led to this killing, some words of regret from the US would have been normal. After all, the merchant ship was unarmed and was ...

Opinion | Xi Is Truly Done Falling For The Great American Bluff

The Chinese and others have long sized up Trump. As a person, he does not inspire trust. His transactional approach, erratic behaviour, ego-driven approach, brutal pressure tactics make him an unreliable interlocutor.

Opinion | The Beijing Visit: Why Does Trump Suddenly Need Xi Jinping?

China will factor in the real possibility that in the mid-term elections in November, Trump may lose the House of Representatives and may become a lame-duck president. How far should it invest in an agreement with Trump is the question.

Opinion | Iran Was Giving Trump The Best Deal America Ever Had. Why He Walked Away From It

Trump's approach to the Iran question has been irrational. He reacted to the failure at Islamabad saying that he wanted not 90% or 95% but 100% satisfaction. This is dictation, not negotiation.

Opinion | Have US And Iran Already Gone Past The Point Of 'Negotation'?

Serious negotiations need to be held behind the scenes with as much confidentiality as possible.

Opinion | Iran And The Actual Questions India Should Be Asking About IRIS Dena Storm

The Iranian ship was our invitee, took part in our Fleet Review, and its personnel paraded before our President. As hosts, this put some moral burden on us to express our regrets at the tragedy that befell those who were earlier our guests.

Opinion | Gulf Confronts An Ugly Truth About Aligning With America

That Iran is attacking bases and other sites in the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia - even Oman - has caused disillusionment in these countries, which thought that they were protected by the US. They are now learning they're not.

Opinion | 10 Days After Bangladesh Polls, Lingering Questions About Pak, Hasina, US

No smooth sailing of bilateral relations can be expected. The effort would be to restore normalcy. The good days of India-Bangladesh ties under Sheikh Hasina are likely over.

Opinion | US Trade Deal: Is This Trump's 'FOMO' After The India-EU Pact?

The India-EU free trade pact wrong-footed the US, turning on its head the very playbook Trump was using to browbeat America's trading partners.

Opinion | Donald Trump: When 'Ego-Mania' Trumps Rationality

No US president after the Second World War has shaken up the global system as much as Trump has done in only a year of his presidency.

Opinion | Putin In India: Why A Fuming Europe Must Accept Its Problems Aren't Of India's Making

The initiative of the three European envoys to write an article in an Indian daily maligning Putin and Russia just before the Russian president's visit served no real purpose. It was diplomatically unwarranted.

Opinion | These Are India's Options Against Sheikh Hasina's Death Sentence

Bangladesh's domestic war crimes court - the International Crimes Tribunal - has sentenced Sheikh Hasina to death after a trial in absentia. This verdict raises many questions.

Opinion | These, Really, Could Be Trump's Plans For Pakistan (And Munir)

Trump's reasons for his tilt towards Pakistan are unclear. Is it as simple as feeling piqued that he wasn't given credit by India for brokering the ceasefire with Pakistan, which he thought would make him eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize?

Opinion | Message To India, Or Something Else? Why Trump Is Really Coddling Pakistan

Trump has reshuffled the political, security and economic cards in the subcontinent as a challenge to India's interests.

Opinion | It's Not India That Should've Handled Trump Better, But The Other Way Round

Our ties with the US are the most important that we have, but how to handle them is not for us to do alone. All the provocations have come from Trump and the sycophants around him.

Opinion | SCO, And Why Trump Must Know The World Doesn't Really Dance To His Tunes

Modi has already met Xi Jinping at the BRICS summit in Kazan in 2024, following which some re-engagement with China has begun. But the fundamentals of our issues with China have not changed.