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From Ideological Rigidity to Economic Realism: The Investment Evolution of Communist Strongholds

Assorted state governments have been holding investment summits, where chief ministers declare their unstinted support to new business ventures, assorted businessmen turn up to declare their investment plans for the state, and sign memoranda of understanding, hope for a paradigm shift in the local business-smothering culture floats at the venue of the summit, like an evanescent puff of perfume, the assembled scribes write up positive stories, and then, once the photographs have been taken, and the motorcades carrying visiting dignitaries have wound their way to the airport, everyone departs the site of synthetic euphoria, climbing down to their habitual elevations above the mean sea level, back to the principal occupation of humdrum survival.

A Strategic Elevation: Trump 2.0 and the Path Ahead

The Trump-Modi meet on February 13 in Washington proved strategic in several ways. The order of priority in which only a few heads of the state met Donald Trump before Narendra Modi carved a niche of its own. It was widely anticipated that the Trump administration would give the bilateral relationship a Trumpian imprint, if not carry out a strategic upgrade altogether.

Red Tides in Blue Waters: China’s Strategic Moves in Europe

Any deep understanding between the US and Russia will erode China’s influence at the high table. Rapid global developments following US President Donald Trump’s phone call to his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin, Vice President J D Vance’s critique at the Munich Security Conference and the US-Russia talks at Riyadh on resolving the Ukraine conflict, sans Ukrainian representation – have all been eroding the edifice built assiduously by China since President Nixon’s visit in 1972. The quick strategic transformation underway and the cataclysmic change it is unleashing is worrying Beijing, given its carefully crafted policies of keeping the US-Russia differences intact through multipolarity and global governance initiatives.

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