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Tuesday, August 26, 2025
TopicNon-Alignment

Topic: Non-Alignment

Nehru’s non-alignment wasn’t passive neutrality. It was biggest peace movement after WW2

Shyam Saran said that Nehru’s non-alignment was not just for India, but for the entire world. He cited the example of Austria in the 1950s.

US, China fighting for influence in the ‘Global South’. Divide-and-rule is the strategy

Even nations that are positioned as supply chain alternatives to China do not hold back from challenging the West’s interventionist policies.

Manmohan Singh, Rahul back Modi on Ukraine. Some things still work in India’s broken politics

The 40 years from the NAM summit in 1983 to this G20 with Biden, Macron & Sunak bilaterals mark India’s march from a fake non-alignment to a mostly transactional policy autonomy.

India has interests on both sides of US-China divide. Cold War holds clues for path ahead

India’s strategic balance is weighted towards the West and its economic balance is towards China. But it needs more to build a multipolar world order.

On Russia, PM Modi’s language isn’t too different from that of Nehru and India will pay costs

It's hard to assess the impact on India if the West introduces secondary sanctions on banks and corporations in China that continue to trade with Russia.

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India will absorb Trump tariff impact due to its Achilles’ heel

Like China, India remains a big domestic market, which will continue to attract investment, but the US tariffs will make India unattractive for future investments.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

‘Peace without power Utopian, lessons from Op Sindoor being implemented’—CDS inaugurates Ran Samvad

India’s 1st tri-service seminar, on the lines of Shangri-La Dialogue, kicks off in Mhow, with top military officers & defence attaches from several countries in attendance.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.