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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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Ex-Diplomat Rebuts M Kharge's H1-B Attack On Centre, Kiren Rijiju Reacts
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today latched on to a former Foreign Secretary's remarks on the Donald Trump administration's H1-B visa move to send a strong message to the main opposition Congress.
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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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"Blood, Water...": Ex-Diplomat Kanwal Sibal Calls For Halting Indus Waters Treaty With Pak
Calling for a strong response after the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, in which 26 people were killed, former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal has called for the indefinite suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan.
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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.
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Opinion | Why Modi-Trump Meet Was More Productive Than Expected
Rather than wait for the mercurial and unpredictable President Donald Trump to say and do things on his pet peeves, which include an obsession with tariffs, Modi took the initiative to engage him directly.
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Opinion | Trump Hates 'Tariff Walls'. Why Is He Building One For America?
Trump's position is contradictory and overbearing. He wants the US to protect its economy. He harks back to the 1920s and '30s, when the US built its industrial and trade sinews behind high tariff walls. Yet, he would deny the same option to India.
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Opinion | Trump's Return Has Laid Bare Europe's Weaknesses
Europes dependence on the US and its limited margin of manoeuvre have been brutally exposed with Trumps coming ascension to the White House.
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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.
-
Ex-Diplomat Rebuts M Kharge's H1-B Attack On Centre, Kiren Rijiju Reacts
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today latched on to a former Foreign Secretary's remarks on the Donald Trump administration's H1-B visa move to send a strong message to the main opposition Congress.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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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"Blood, Water...": Ex-Diplomat Kanwal Sibal Calls For Halting Indus Waters Treaty With Pak
Calling for a strong response after the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, in which 26 people were killed, former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal has called for the indefinite suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan.
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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.
-
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.
-
Opinion | Why Modi-Trump Meet Was More Productive Than Expected
Rather than wait for the mercurial and unpredictable President Donald Trump to say and do things on his pet peeves, which include an obsession with tariffs, Modi took the initiative to engage him directly.
-
Opinion | Trump Hates 'Tariff Walls'. Why Is He Building One For America?
Trump's position is contradictory and overbearing. He wants the US to protect its economy. He harks back to the 1920s and '30s, when the US built its industrial and trade sinews behind high tariff walls. Yet, he would deny the same option to India.
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Opinion | Trump's Return Has Laid Bare Europe's Weaknesses
Europes dependence on the US and its limited margin of manoeuvre have been brutally exposed with Trumps coming ascension to the White House.
