Amid shifting global power, India must choose: push bold political, economic, and federal reforms now—or risk deformation and decline in the new world order.
Study, conducted between January & April, finds that just 34% of people across 24 countries believe that Trump is doing a good job leading the world on major global issues.
It's hardly surprising that Maldives has played the China card. This is the kind of self-interested behaviour that India frequently invokes with Russia or Iran.
Although a modest bounce back for China cannot be ruled out, the widely anticipated challenge it was supposed to pose to Western strategic dominance is still some ways away.
For Indian foreign policy, a weakened Russia is a mixed bag: it is likely to be more beholden to Beijing, but its support to China in the Indo-Pacific would matter less.
Aparna Pande's Making India Great, by HarperCollins, will be released on 18 August on SoftCover, ThePrint’s e-venue to launch select non-fiction books.
If India fails to action key reforms, its geopolitical leverage will reduce and it will be forced to ally more closely with the US on less favourable terms.
Recent data does not support any dramatic shift away from the dollar. As per IMF, the share of international transactions conducted in dollars has declined from 56.90% to 56.77%.
Increase in employment subsidy, Rs 500 crore for estate revamp, new townships in pipeline—but land cost, power breakdowns and inspector raj top among key worries for industry leaders.
CDS Anil Chauhan says future space capability will not be built by government agencies alone. ‘It will be co-developed with industry, start-ups, and technology innovators’.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
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