From Michigan to Madrid and from Ankara to Auckland, voters are beginning to factor in foreign policy issues as they go out to decide who they should hand over power to.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
We should be grateful for small mercies. 2. Once a retaliatory cycle starts, whether it is shelling across the LoC – five members of a family were killed yesterday, two injured – or this harassment of diplomats, in contravention of diplomatic courtesies that predate the Vienna Convention by centuries, it is very difficult to decide what was provocation, what is retaliation. As both nations head into the uncertainty of federal elections, no major breakthrough is possible. However, it should be possible to step back from this wholly avoidable dismantling of diplomatic protocol.
We should be grateful for small mercies. 2. Once a retaliatory cycle starts, whether it is shelling across the LoC – five members of a family were killed yesterday, two injured – or this harassment of diplomats, in contravention of diplomatic courtesies that predate the Vienna Convention by centuries, it is very difficult to decide what was provocation, what is retaliation. As both nations head into the uncertainty of federal elections, no major breakthrough is possible. However, it should be possible to step back from this wholly avoidable dismantling of diplomatic protocol.