Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's visit for SCO summit was the first by a Pakistani official to India in 12 years. Many derided it as a diplomatic disaster.
Pakistanis trying to find the fruits of Bilawal Bhutto’s successful India visit will still be looking for that IMF bailout, deciding between expensive bhindi and daal.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting in Goa has produced the usual photo-ops and probably even some important outcomes in back-room conversations....
Suspension of the rupee-rouble trade system, established to avoid the purview of Western sanctions on Russia, is being viewed as a blow to Indian importers.
Chinese, Russian & Pakistan foreign ministers to attend the meeting. Counter-terrorism concerns in nations like Afghanistan, the Russia-Ukraine war likely to dominate the discussions.
Don’t forget there is a substantial lobby in India too that would scoff at the idea of normal relations with Pakistan. It’s a challenge of enormous proportions.
At Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in New Delhi, China's defence minister Li Shangfu told Rajnath Singh the LAC was ‘generally stable’. Singh said the basis of bilateral ties has 'eroded'.
The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.
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.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
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.
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