For anyone who is piqued by US President Donald Trump’s deceptive diplomacy, where ‘strategic ambiguity’ is a policy choice, his volte face on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) offers key insights. During the recently-held NATO summit in The Hague, perhaps the biggest development was Trump’s metamorphosed views that NATO remains relevant for the US.
Meanwhile, as China forges ahead in artificial intelligence and robotics, India is stuck with half-baked R&D schemes.
Post-Pahalgam, grey-zone warfare has been on full display, as Islamabad and Rawalpindi peddled fake narratives and carefully crafted a facade of innocence—attempting to mislead the world, especially the gullible Western audience—in the wake of heinous terrorist attacks and the killing of innocent tourists in Jammu and Kashmir by the Pakistan-based terrorist group, ‘The Resistance Front (TRF),’ an offshoot of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
My research journey into The Strategic Deployment of Sustainable Agrarian Initiatives: India’s Evolving Soft Power Projection within the Global Geopolitical Framework revealed how India is leveraging its agricultural innovations to feed its people and build bridges with nations worldwide.
Millionaires are moving countries by the tens of thousands, at an increasing pace each year, according to Henley and Partners’ annual reports on Global Wealth Migration (for the latest iteration, see report). Some countries draw in millionaires, like a rare-earth infused permanent magnet snaps up iron filings: Singapore and the UAE, for example. Some lose their millionaires, like Britain, India and China.
Recent decision by U.S government to stop funding under USAID United States Agency for International Development proved to be warning call for global health. Study by WHO on impact of funding cuts indicates immediate challenge in 50 plus countries for HIV Services, 27 countries will face harmful breakdown due to tuberculosis, Malaria that projected 15 million+ Case, 100 thousand+ deaths will worsen this year.
The discourse on climate change has conventionally centered around melting glaciers, elevated temperatures, and diminishing forests. However, one domain where its consequences are increasingly tangible—and critical—is maritime security. India, endowed with an extensive coastline of over 7,500 kilometers and a strategic position in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), stands at the intersection of this evolving environmental landscape.