US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar Wednesday, and the two showcased an easy camaraderie at the press briefing.
By the moral logic that countries should withdraw from multilateral organisations whose policy they do not believe in, the US should make a beginning by leaving the United Nations.
Going through their Instagrams and dissecting their ‘statements’ is not the astute political commentary you think it is—it is time for us to back off from targeting 20-year-olds.
Companies are borrowing more from banks and public. Economists say high capacity utilisation & growing new orders could set stage for renewed investment push by India Inc.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
With 12% of world Arms imports being Indian , we are the largest Arms importers in the world.
US exports are mainly Arms and Corn. US Arms industry controls all US administration and its Foreign Policy. It stokes FIRE through State and Non State actors , forcing neighbours to arm against each other. In this context, the Pakistani swagger will never die as US will keep it alive by giving new Arms to it now and then . India perforce will have to then counter by buying more.
US agreements of COMCASA nad LEMOA and our inclusion in QUAD,US help to get Hafeez Sayeed banned, their lobbying for our entry to NSG , are all a smoke screen to get the major chunk of our Defence Budget for Arms purchase.
India must tread carefully or else it will lose time tested strategic support of Russia and also isolate China.
There is little substance in Trump’s utterances. He runs on like an out of control, misguided guided missile. Let the US Secy of State walk the talk (Trump’s talk), that is when the GOI should consider our response. The US military-industrial complex will never wish to jeopardise the billions coming from arms sales to India with the promise of more billions in the future.
The US keeps creating tensions around the world just to keep its arms trade bustling. If it thinks it can meddle in India’s arms deal with Russia by means of intimidation we should retaliate by all future arms deals with that country.
Instead of offering the best the US expects us to buy duds like the F 21 , whose role in the USAF is itself not clear. The Trump Govt is also ignoring the many orders for anti sub aircraft, howitzers and attack helicopters that India has placed with US and is behaving as if they have sold nothing to us.
Our foreign policy needs to go back to the drawing board. The coherence that flows when the entire diplomatic corps is fashioning it seems to be missing. Most intriguing is the role of EAM. For three years, as FS, he could have ensured that it was driven by professional diplomats.
With 12% of world Arms imports being Indian , we are the largest Arms importers in the world.
US exports are mainly Arms and Corn. US Arms industry controls all US administration and its Foreign Policy. It stokes FIRE through State and Non State actors , forcing neighbours to arm against each other. In this context, the Pakistani swagger will never die as US will keep it alive by giving new Arms to it now and then . India perforce will have to then counter by buying more.
US agreements of COMCASA nad LEMOA and our inclusion in QUAD,US help to get Hafeez Sayeed banned, their lobbying for our entry to NSG , are all a smoke screen to get the major chunk of our Defence Budget for Arms purchase.
India must tread carefully or else it will lose time tested strategic support of Russia and also isolate China.
There is little substance in Trump’s utterances. He runs on like an out of control, misguided guided missile. Let the US Secy of State walk the talk (Trump’s talk), that is when the GOI should consider our response. The US military-industrial complex will never wish to jeopardise the billions coming from arms sales to India with the promise of more billions in the future.
The US keeps creating tensions around the world just to keep its arms trade bustling. If it thinks it can meddle in India’s arms deal with Russia by means of intimidation we should retaliate by all future arms deals with that country.
Instead of offering the best the US expects us to buy duds like the F 21 , whose role in the USAF is itself not clear. The Trump Govt is also ignoring the many orders for anti sub aircraft, howitzers and attack helicopters that India has placed with US and is behaving as if they have sold nothing to us.
Our foreign policy needs to go back to the drawing board. The coherence that flows when the entire diplomatic corps is fashioning it seems to be missing. Most intriguing is the role of EAM. For three years, as FS, he could have ensured that it was driven by professional diplomats.