Person of the Year: Donald Trump’s Agenda for 2024 and Beyond
US President-elect Donald Trump has been named Time magazine's ‘Person of the Year,' underscoring the continuing centrality of his personality in shaping US politics and global discourse.
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Trump Should Tame His Love for Tariffs: Here’s Why
President Donald Trump loves tariffs, especially when he can unilaterally impose them as a dangling stick, hoping it might turn into a carrot for the target.
The Fall of the House of Assad: A Turning Point for Syria and the Middle East
Hopefully, the embattled and thoroughly aggrieved Syrians, 13 million of whom have been displaced and refuges for over a decade, will find succour in New Syria and they will not go the Libyan, Yemen or the Iraqi way, observes former diplomat Anil Trigunayat.
Global Power Dynamics and Terrorism: The Resurgence of the Syrian Conflict
West Asia is never quiet. As if the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon are not enough, let alone the simmering ones in Libya, Yemen, and Sudan, the past week’s conflagration in Syria has yet again proved that the causes of conflict must also be definitively addressed, especially when a highly complex situation is allowed to take deeper, divisive roots with external powers having their own axe to grind every step of the way.
India’s Strategic Concerns: The Risks of an Unstable Middle East
In the past dozen or so years, India has effectively transformed its "Link West" policy into an "Act West" policy. The transactional partnerships of previous decades have been replaced by a comprehensive, strategic relationship, expanding, renewing, and reigniting the intensity of exchanges at the highest levels.
South Korea’s 6-Hour Martial Rule: Domestic and Indo-Pacific Implications
On December 3, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol surprised the nation by declaring martial law. The announcement sent shock waves across the globe as airborne troops entered the premises of the National Assembly. Although South Korea has a history of martial law-13 emergency ones and four security martial laws this was the first time it had been declared after the 1981 revision of the National Assembly Act. Nonetheless, a proactive opposition voted in the assembly against the martial law, forcing the President to lift it.
PM Oli’s China Visit: Optics Overshadow Substance
High in optics and but low in content, Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s visit to China this week sends signals of balancing India. For the past decade, China has been upping the ante in Kathmandu with close political tie-ups between the communist parties, promises for infrastructure projects, trade, tourism and others.