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As Biden shapes a new US policy, China changes tack on ties with India

Biden sees China as more of an economic threat than a security one. The US’ stress on transatlantic alliances reflect this.

Trump’s Afghanistan troop cuts risks resurgence of global terrorism, NATO chief warns

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says ISIS could try to build terror caliphate in Afghanistan, as Trump is set to order downsizing of troops by January.

Quad must be built on agendas, not emotions. Can’t afford to become another NATO

Jaishankar described the Tokyo Quad meet as ‘consultations’. It needs more than China to become a regional institution.

China muscles its way onto NATO turf, rattling an alliance upset with Trump’s ‘America First’

China’s actions are prodding NATO to pivot to Asia, a potential sea change roiling an alliance created to protect Europe against Soviet Union.

Paris deal to WHO, the 11 organisations Donald Trump’s US has pulled out of, weakened

From weakening WTO and NATO to pulling out of several UN organisations, Donald Trump has now targeted at least 11 global cooperation bodies or pacts.

Huawei rift between US and Europe becoming an issue for NATO

The rift may have a global impact as the western powers struggle to come to terms with the technological prowess China has developed since 2015.

Trump’s hasty NATO retreat and Britain’s Christmas election trees

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Trump is the least of NATO’s problems

The 70th anniversary of NATO this week brought home one fact with clarity — that the world body is in deep, even existential, trouble.

At 70, why NATO is tense and divided, grappling with deep political fissures

There have been questions about the purpose & future direction of NATO since 1991, but its problems became more pronounced after Donald Trump became US President in 2017.

NATO likely to declare space a war zone. This is how it could pan out

At an upcoming summit in early December, NATO is expected to declare space as a ‘warfighting domain’, partly in response to new developments in technology.

On Camera

RBI didn’t do heavy lifting under Subbarao. And Finance Ministry didn’t undermine the Governor

In my view as the finance secretary during UPA II govt, the least RBI could have done was not to further depress the sentiment with doomsday prophecies.

Day after mass sick leave by employees, Air India Express fires crew members, cancels 85 more flights

About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.

Pensionless Maha Vir Chakra awardee who trained Mukti Bahini continues to fight for rights

Chiman Singh, injured in 1971 India-Pakistan war, was discharged as non-pensioner in 1972. In his petition, he states denial of pension is contrary to settled law.

What’s common between Netflix Chamkila and Trudeau’s trouble-infested Canada? They don’t get Punjab

Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.