A knee jerk disruption in trade ties will hurt Indian businesses, especially at a time when the economy is beginning to re-adjust to the new normal of Covid-19.
Ram Manohar Lohia, George Fernandes and Mulayam Singh Yadav always saw China as a bigger threat than Pakistan, and wanted India to recalibrate its foreign policy accordingly.
Jaishankar understands that crises are the bedrock of opportunities. So before EU leaders held a teleconference on COVID-19, India activated hot lines across South Asia.
Modi has already shown he is different in the way he cancelled talks with Pakistan, just because its high commissioner met Hurriyat leaders, till now a routine and passing blip on media radar.
By giving himself an opportunity to feature on an international stage, Modi can relaunch himself as a big-hearted moderate, switching from electoral campaign to governance mode.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
It cannot be status as quo and business as usual with couple of demarche’s to Chinese and let them off the hook without any transaction cost for doing these incursions. Every incursion they do should have to have some costs both diplomatically and politically. Currently chinese do not feel any costs associated with such actions and it almost happens every hear some reported/ some unreported, some serious and some not so serious. We cannot move from one fire-drill to another. Unless there is a concerted policy to impose unacceptable costs to Chinese on every incursions this will continue no matter you can scream and write about Modi, Italians, half-baked RG, the Print, The Wire and all the left parties etc. It is not all about Modi as some of these publications makes it appear as they are more interested in blaming Modi and doing retail politics with this issue, as opposed to finding a solution as a country.. It is 70 year old policy problem that requires fixing. China is a tough neighbor who does not play by rules. It is an expansionist state as Modi points out and there should not be any doubt about that for all folks who are interested in India as a nation be it in the Left or Right.
It cannot be status as quo and business as usual with couple of demarche’s to Chinese and let them off the hook without any transaction cost for doing these incursions. Every incursion they do should have to have some costs both diplomatically and politically. Currently chinese do not feel any costs associated with such actions and it almost happens every hear some reported/ some unreported, some serious and some not so serious. We cannot move from one fire-drill to another. Unless there is a concerted policy to impose unacceptable costs to Chinese on every incursions this will continue no matter you can scream and write about Modi, Italians, half-baked RG, the Print, The Wire and all the left parties etc. It is not all about Modi as some of these publications makes it appear as they are more interested in blaming Modi and doing retail politics with this issue, as opposed to finding a solution as a country.. It is 70 year old policy problem that requires fixing. China is a tough neighbor who does not play by rules. It is an expansionist state as Modi points out and there should not be any doubt about that for all folks who are interested in India as a nation be it in the Left or Right.