India plays important role in US' Indo-Pacific strategy, which aims to maintain America’s ‘strategic primacy’ in region, thereby checking China's ‘influence’, declassified report says.
The US President will hold a three-hour indoor summit, followed by discussions of how the vaccines were developed and how they’ll be regulated, distributed and administered.
Historians argue that Trump's actions since losing the election, unrestrained by truth & facts, have heightened concerns he will destroy records of ‘potential malfeasance & crimes'.
Any post-election acrimony could complicate a presidential transition now unfolding amid a pandemic. The handoff could also be challenged by absences in agencies’ upper ranks.
Before he leaves office at noon on 20 January 2021, Trump could fire or target perceived enemies and pardon allies, straining the traditional legal boundaries of presidential power.
Crowded cities are rich because there is greater division of labour. The extent of the division of labour depends on the size of the market, wrote Sauvik Chakraverti in 2002.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
The June 15, 2020 clash between India and China is fittingly in-line with a famous saying, “Imprudence is a moral failing of sorts, but alas it ranks low as a dreamtime concern”. That morality has little role to play in the scheme of global politics is one of the reasons why states resort to taking actions that border irrationality and recklessness. Those dangerous forays sprout from a desire to achieve grandiose goals. India is no exception, and thus, looks to achieve goals through a mosaic of coercive strategies . It has shown the tendency to reshape the contours of the region by challenging the status quo. Ostensibly, India’s behavior can be ascribed to a permissive environment, provided by the United States, to counter the rise of China.
The June 15, 2020 clash between India and China is fittingly in-line with a famous saying, “Imprudence is a moral failing of sorts, but alas it ranks low as a dreamtime concern”. That morality has little role to play in the scheme of global politics is one of the reasons why states resort to taking actions that border irrationality and recklessness. Those dangerous forays sprout from a desire to achieve grandiose goals. India is no exception, and thus, looks to achieve goals through a mosaic of coercive strategies . It has shown the tendency to reshape the contours of the region by challenging the status quo. Ostensibly, India’s behavior can be ascribed to a permissive environment, provided by the United States, to counter the rise of China.