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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Opinion | Trump's Hollow Claims: Here's Where India - And China - Really Buy Their Oil From
Navarro says India is importing more oil than it needs, forgetting that it is adding value by refining it and satisfying existing external demand, created, ironically, by the US and the EU imposing sanctions on Russia.
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Opinion | Can One Tariff Their Way To A Nobel? Ask Trump
When faced with the reality that peace in Ukraine is not a real estate deal and that his obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize cannot dictate the calendar of a peace breakthrough, Trump has kept extending the timetable for reaching a solution.
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Opinion | Trump Tariffs: The West Botched Up Russia ... And Now Wants India To Foot The Bill
The West has grudgingly recognised its inability to persuade India not to buy Russian oil. However, anti-Russian lobbies continue to apply pressure on New Delhi, seeing that their goal of imposing a strategic defeat on Russia has proved illusory.
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Opinion | The Latest G7 Was A Disaster, Thanks To Trump
With the deep differences between the US and the other six members from Trump's first term getting accentuated after his re-election, the prognostics for this summit were, in any case, not good.
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Opinion | Turkey: Why Nobody Trusts It, But Everyone Deals With It
Turkey's diplomacy has a "bazaari" (market) element to it; it is bargain-oriented.
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Opinion | Trump Is So, So Wrong In Lumping India And Pakistan Together
No doubt the Pahalgam assault was condemned by the US and others, but it means little from India's point of view if they did not take cognisance of Pakistan's role in it.
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Opinion | Bangladesh: Why Yunus Government Must Be Careful With 'Loose Talk'
One would have hoped that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's gesture of having a formal meeting with an Interim Adviser who has done virtually nothing to reach out to India, would have been used as an opportunity to initiate a fresh approach.
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Opinion | Trump's Approach To Indian Tariffs Reeks Of Bullying
Very simplistically and unfairly, Trump seeks equality of treatment between the US and India in the matter of trade, rejecting the concept of special and differential treatment.
