NEW DELHI: This is “our 1861 moment,” Afghan President Ashraf Ghani repeatedly said in Washington, D.C. alongside his many-time political rival Abdullah Abdullah. “When President Lincoln entered Washington besieged, seemingly isolated, and on the verge of an actual war, his approach of unity, finding his Grant and Sherman, worked,” he said in public remarks during […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “The U.S.-Russia relationship is like a falling knife and we need to catch it,” Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund RDIF, told CNBC recently. On ‘Talking Point’, Dr. Anna Kireeva, Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and African Studies, Research Fellow at the Centre for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has said it is “studying” U.S. President Joe Biden’s ‘Build Back Better World’ (B3W) plan, announced at the Group of 7 (G7) Summit, and “would engage with them probably at a later stage.” On ‘The Gist’, Jeremy A. Garlick, Director of the Jan Masaryk Centre, Associate Professor of China Studies, Prague University […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Today’s talks have further solidified our strategic partnership and enlarged our agenda of cooperation,” tweeted External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar after talks with his US counterpart Antony Blinken. Jaishankar said he and Blinken had had a “positive discussion” on issues of bilateral co-operation along with regional and global issues. “We covered the Indo-Pacific […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s five-day visit to the U.S. is the first Indian Cabinet ministerial trip to New York and Washington since Joe Biden took over as President. On ‘Talking Point‘, Akriti Vasudeva, Research Analyst at the Stimson Centre and Editor-at-large at online magazine South Asian Voices and Atman M. Trivedi, who […]Read More
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, currently on a visit to the U.S., was interviewed by former U.S. National Security Adviser HR McMaster. The questions ranged from the pandemic to China, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He warned that in the post-Covid world, there is need for better balance, less risk in terms of production and supply chains […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar continued his “in person” contact with the Biden administration with his long-awaited official visit to the US. The visit which is the first by Jaishankar to the US since President Joe Biden came to power will see a number of key meetings take place. Jaishankar’s first appointment in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Add another name to the list of Indian Americans on Team Biden: Puneet Talwar. He was a top adviser for 12 years when Biden was a senator, was part of the group that put together the nuclear deal with Iran and advised former president Obama on West Asia. He now joins Zalmay Khalilzad […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Declaring that the “welfare of India is critically important to the United States” Vice President Kamala Harris was quick to rebuff charges from her critics that both she and the administration had been slow to respond to India during its moment of crisis. “The surge of Covid-19 outbreaks and deaths in India is […]Read More
NEW DELHI: How important will the Biden administration’s support in waiving patents on Covid-19 vaccines be for saving lives? Does it make India and South Africa’s six-month-old proposal at the World Trade Organisation any easier? How should the world ramp up the manufacture and distribution of vaccines and life-saving drugs? On ‘Talking Point‘ , Professor […]Read More
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