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Thursday, July 24, 2025
TopicCold War

Topic: Cold War

India played US-versus-Soviets to get development aid, but gave up state power

Sadhana Singh -
The Price of Aid by David C. Engerman is a fascinating account of how the economic cold war shaped the first 25 years of independent India.

Real news can be a bigger problem than fake news

Tyler Cowen -
The world of the internet — a world of information — is giving us more truth than we can handle, which explains the decline of the liberal world order.

China looks to beat the world to 5G, and Aung San Suu Kyi won’t be stripped of Nobel Peace Prize

ThePrint Team -
China denies Trump's accusations of hacking Clinton's email, Vladimir Putin softens pension policy in Russia.

This is why China could collapse like the Soviet Union

David Fickling -
China's dying labour-force boom, like the Soviet Union's in the 1970s, may not revive even with Silk Road project’s heavy investments.

India-US relations survived World War & Cold War. They may not survive Trump

Srinath Raghavan -
Trump’s policies underscore discontent with globalism of past decades and a turn towards emphasising US’s narrower national interests. The mounting tensions over trade and tariffs...

Who owns the moon? A space lawyer answers the compelling question

Frans von der Dunk -
Under Outer Space Treaty, moon & other celestial bodies such as asteroids can't become a 'territory' of one sovereign state or another.

‘Our Time Has Come’: Alyssa Ayres’s chronicle of India’s rise to global prominence

Shyam Saran -
Despite the various challenges author Alyssa Ayres has highlighted in her book, she sees India well on the road to acquiring global power and status.

India’s vote at UN on Jerusalem is not a knee-jerk Cold War era reaction

Arun K. Singh -
India’s vote opposing Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, was a reflection of current international norm and legality.

New big idea vs failed, old bilateralism

Shekhar Gupta -
Pakistan is not an equal or stable neighbor. Only the stamp of a global power can assure lasting peace with India

Modi’s NAM – A New Alignment Movement

Shekhar Gupta -
Modi has debunked uncontested old wisdom that foreign and strategic policy must follow broad national consensus despite change in governments.
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Opinion

Defence, tech, education—Modi’s visit will boost India-UK ties

Ruchi Ghanashyam -
Given the immediate challenges on India’s borders, cooperation in the defence sector with partners such as the UK has achieved greater importance.

Hyderabad is no longer the better Bengaluru. Our roads are flooding and full of traffic

Saiyaara proves star kids don’t need hype, just a good film and a killer soundtrack

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

Snehesh Alex Philip -
PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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