After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage and military modernisation.
The end of the Cold War in the 1990s brought an end to the ideological spheres of influence that had defined the post-World War II period, envisioned as a fight between the capitalist West and the communist East.
Trump’s action in Venezuela is likely to raise questions about the choices that US allies and partners face today, putting even greater stress on the international order.
In Episode 1623, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta discusses the dragon-elephant dance in the Trump 2.0 era which is seeing the US President upend the world order.
American adversaries such as Russia are salivating at the thought of the US withdrawing from its global position. China is eager to claim the mantle of regional and possibly global leadership.
Country's used lithium-ion battery problem is also set to grow sharply in next decade. India 3rd largest e-waste producer with 7% global share but currently recycles only about 10% of it.
Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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