Ties between India and the US have hit a rough patch, with President Donald J. Trump taking aim at New Delhi’s continuing trade with Russia. Trump has described India as a ‘dead economy’.
In Chinese discourse, India is portrayed as playing both sides, indecisive, and lacking strategic coherence, a “fence-sitter” unable to secure the confidence of either Washington or Beijing.
With Trump escalating trade tensions, especially with China, the 90-day moratorium presents a rare opportunity for India to strike while the iron is hot.
China wants to disregard India’s global status as the key factor forcing its hand toward military disengagement. But it can’t ignore New Delhi’s engagements with the US and its allies.
India must leverage its state capacity to implement policies that support businesses while avoiding coercive actions that create chilling effects on companies and investments.
Speaking at India Ideas Summit, Lindsey Ford says countries in Indo-Pacific are increasingly questioning the role China should have in their critical infrastructure.
The ‘Global Times’ commentary isn’t the first attempt by Chinese state media to criticise Indian diplomacy. But its swift retraction shows significant embarrassment for Beijing.
The need of the hour is for India to forge an ambitious SMR public-private partnership with the US–the country that spearheaded the exception for India at the Nuclear Suppliers Group 16 years ago.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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