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Sunday, September 14, 2025
TopicForeign policy

Topic: foreign policy

This is how Xi Jinping gang sidelined CCP deep factions

Xi Jinping ended the Chinese Communist Party’s internal democracy that Deng Xiaoping had established.

Foreign tweets to foreign hands — India’s ‘FDI’ moment under Modi was a long time coming

Whatever Meena Harris, Rihanna or Greta Thunberg may say, they are not coming here to fight on behalf of a weak and supine opposition. Modi knows that.

Can army and air force tackle climate change, pandemic? This is why diplomacy is needed

Former foreign secretary Shyam Saran, in a talk at the LSE Ideas Programme, says nations cannot define their interests in absolute terms, disregarding the interests of other states.

5 questions for the Modi government as it enters 2021

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

India should be relieved Biden won. Modi-Trump bond can only go so far

A Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration will ensure substance takes priority over rhetoric in India-US relationship.

Trump didn’t make America isolationist. It dates back to George Washington

In ‘Isolationism’, Charles A. Kupchan traces the US history of shielding itself from the world. And it’s not a tradition that started with Trump.

Kabul attack shows why India needs own Afghanistan plan, no matter who wins in US

The next US president will need to set his own house in order before it can help India or frame a South Asia policy. New Delhi can’t wait for it.

Why NSA Doval and his men are asserting themselves in Nepal, rather than MEA

PM Modi wants relationship with Nepal fixed. So R&AW chief Samant Goel and his team boarded a special aircraft to the Himalayan republic.

India waving SFF and Tibet cards won’t scare China. Can’t pull levers you don’t have

Bending foreign policy to serve domestic politics is proving to be costly for India. Hyping the use of the Tibetan-majority SFF against China is one such example.

India’s comatose opposition is letting Modi govt’s foreign policy go unchallenged

The Centre failed to defend Indian territory along the LAC, but the only pressure on the Modi govt appears to come from a set of journalists & analysts.

On Camera

Manipur has seen too much pain to be seduced by promises

Nehru learned the truth the hard way when 3,000 Nagas walked out of his 1953 rally. The people of the Northeast aren’t easily seduced by baubles.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.