Howard Lutnick has spoken. Instead of taking umbrage, New Delhi should listen. He’s telling India it’s a new world and deals are struck between strong leaders. This is what’s wrong with old-style trade negotiations. Conservative practices shouldn’t drag the deal. The lesson for next time the moment arrives: seize it.
ED raids at I-PAC sites in Kolkata reflect a predictable pre-election pattern
The ED raids at the I-PAC sites in Kolkata follow what has now become a predictable pre-election pattern. The optics are all wrong. It amounts to a brazen attempt at intimidating the opposition parties and frightening away potential donors. Every state election doesn’t have to become the same unedifying spectacle.
UAE’s effort to curb Islamisation in Britain isn’t ironic but proof of new extremism
The UAE is discouraging students from enrolling in British universities fearing Islamisation isn’t a matter of irony. It points to a new radicalisation drive among Europe’s Muslim immigrants, hyphenated with an angry Left. It’s fundamentally reshaping Western democracies. Especially as more and more failed Muslim states go into crisis mode.
Yeah, now India should make deals publicly. After all, that is what trump does…makes everything a public spectacle
Muslims in Europe and North America are way more radicalised than Muslims in the original homelands of Islam. And the primary credit for this goes to the Leftist and Socialist political parties in Europe and North America. In their effort to turn immigrant Muslims into a permanent votebank, they (through their control over mainstream media outlets and academic institutions) have successfully made Muslims believe that they are ‘victims’ and their ‘Islamic identity’ is under serious threat. Of course, ‘Jihad’ is the logical next step for such brainwashed people.
It’s a travesty indeed. Mr. Shekhar Gupta and his acolytes at ThePrint never ever report on issues plaguing West Bengal. The state is mired in corruption with vicious political violence being a part of daily life – one never ever finds any report on ThePrint on the unfortunate ground realities of the state.
Yet, as soon as ED raided I-PAC, Mr Gupta and Ms. Shailaja Bajpai came out strongly in defence of the Mamata Banerjee regime. They don’t print a word on the brazen corruption of the regime or the egregious violence aided and abetted by it. But tey now they are concerned about ‘intimidation of Opposition parties’. What a joke!
So the editorial team at The Print is now on Lutnick team ? This foul mouthed uncouth person has said a lot of things in the past year. Such a person is not trustworthy and neither is the US in its present avatar ! This “seizing of opportunity” is a fallacy because the present US dispensation is not presenting “opportunities” but pitfalls for every sovereign. I wonder what inside information the editors at The Print have to come to such a weird conclusion from Lutnicks commentary.
Dealing with Howard Lutnick is a joke. India is still developing country and can’t make deals based on whim of a millionaire in NY and his thought that the President of US thinks every deal is a stair case. Deals amogst countries are not same as deals between two commercial entities motivated only by profit. India and US won’t make trade only based on profit. If a commerce secretary is not ready to understand that fact then let’s just wait.