Indian Americans are in the spotlight in the US presidential election. Pro-Trump Vivek Ramaswamy and Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of Republican Party vice-presidential nominee JD Vance, have created waves in the media. But the focus of Indian Americans is Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, a Baptist Christian married to a Jew who was born … Read more
Watch: What’s strategic autonomy and why is it important for India? In this episode of Realpolitik, Stanly Johny explores the complexities of India’s foreign policy and its balancing act between the U.S. and Russia. Since independence, all Indian governments have adhered to strategic autonomy in various forms—non-alignment, multi-alignment, multi-engagement, or multi-directional foreign policy. Today, the … Read more
After five years of steadfast leadership under Mr. P.V. Narasimha Rao, India witnessed some one of its the most unstable years politically, between 1996 and 1999. The cause for this was largely the two consecutive United Front governments and the short-lived Vajpayee government. The United Front (UF) experiment between 1996 and 1998 was a non-Congress, … Read more
Ahead of the 2-year anniversary of Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine, a barrage of European Foreign Ministers are in Delhi for the annual Raisina Dialogue. Is Ukraine in danger of losing land annexed by Russia permanently? And has the needle of Indian Foreign policy moved at all since 2022? We get you the picture that emerged … Read more
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borell. File | Photo Credit: REUTERS European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrived in China on Thursday, looking to manage the bloc’s “de-risking” strategy with its largest trading partner while laying the foundations for a planned summit this year. The visit comes just days after war broke out between … Read more
I wish at least a percentage of their courage to those who have been thinking for 31 days how to transfer a dozen or two of planes or tanks … Ukraine cannot shoot down Russian missiles using shotguns, machine guns, which are too much in supplies. And it is impossible to unblock Mariupol without a … Read more
New International Monetary Fund forecasts due in April will show that the war in Ukraine will slow global economic growth, but will not cause a global recession, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Tuesday. Georgieva, speaking in an online event hosted by Foreign Policy magazine, said that some weak emerging economies still struggling with … Read more
Like many of her friends, Tatyana, a barista at the fashionable Moscow coffee-shop chain Skuratov, was glued to the screen of her mobile phone as Vladimir Putin addressed the nation. “Usually, I don’t watch television, especially when our president speaks. But I felt like I had to tune in this time. I was witnessing history … Read more
Latest updates: prime minister tells MPs Russian president has staged ‘renewed invasion’ of Ukraine Russia condemned at UN after Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine Ukraine-Russia crisis: latest updates According to a report by Lucy Fisher in the Telegraph, Russian oligarchs have been lobbying the Foreign Office in the hope of ensuring they avoid being … Read more
China’s increasingly assertive approach to international diplomacy is manifested not just in South China Sea or Taiwan Strait but also in India‘s neighbourhood through settlements on Bhutanese territory, a report in the Washington Post has said. “China’s latest move in the Himalayas is unusually provocative: It is carrying out full-scale settlement in another country’s territory. … Read more