The BBC Raid: An Act of Nation building?
How come we carried out this survey on BBC’s offices in Delhi, even as we are going big on our G20 presidency?
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The Japan and Germany Awakening
Today, structural changes in the international system are quite evident and their impact on nations is also palpable. Two countries that are redefining their foreign and security policies and, in so doing, their global identities are Germany and Japan.
China’s Disappearing Billionaires
The sudden vanishing of Bao Fan, the head of China Renaissance Holdings, whose clients include ride-hailing Didi Chuxing and food-delivery app Meituan, has once again stirred the hornet’s nest in China. While such disappearances are not strange in authoritarian China, the frequency of such incidents at a time when President Xi Jinping is tightening political control, amidst China’s economic troubles, is revealing.
The India-Japan-Italy Triangle: A Counter Force to China
In the last few years, there has been an impressive acceleration in Italy’s engagement with the Indo-Pacific and not only in terms of economic presence, which was already very marked, but also political attention.
Year in Review: A Way Out of Ukraine War
Well, after an year of Russia–Ukraine war or Moscow’s special ops one thing is for sure that there are no winners and the whole world especially the deprived developing countries, who had nothing to do with these power games, are big losers.
China’s Growing Discomfort with the Prolonged War
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its second year and the path to ending the war remains uncertain, China is increasingly feeling constrained by and conflicted with its national interests and strategic goals, the exaggerated limitless partnership with Russia, and its overdependence on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) and G-7 countries for its economic and technological rise.