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Saturday, April 4, 2026
TopicMiddle powers

Topic: middle powers

What the Iran crisis means for middle powers

The message coming out of Davos and Munich this year is not that diplomacy has died, but that its center of gravity has shifted.

Middle powers are showing unprecedented agency — to offset unsteady US era

The participation of middle powers in platforms such as the G20, ASEAN, AUKUS dialogues, and regional security forums positions them as brokers between competing interests.

Carney’s hope for a middle power partnership is silly. He ignores geography in the power math

Both Canada and India are neighbours to one of the two great powers of this era. This severely restricts their choices, but in different ways.

Middle power era is here. India can’t afford to miss the bus again

The two contesting powers US and China are also having to look for allies, supporters, and strategic partners from among middle powers.

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No amount of welfarism and futurist illusion can remove poverty of Indian people: BS Sanyal

The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.