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
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist’, Dr Michael Rubin, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute analyses how the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan could free President Joe Biden to act against the Pakistan deep state and its use of terrorist groups as a foreign policy. In conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. […]Read More
The story of how the US came to India’s aid during the coronavirus surge needs to be told. It all began with the slow rise in coronavirus cases in India followed by tweets from Adar Poonawalla of the Serum Institute, that he could not access raw materials for his vaccine because of US export controls. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In his first address to Congress on Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden took deliberate aim at China, warning that “China and other countries are closing in fast. We have to develop and dominate the technologies of the future. There’s simply no reason the blades for wind turbines can’t be built in Pittsburg instead […]Read More
NEW DELHI: U.S. President Joe Biden’s call to Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set in motion a massive mobilization drive, albeit delayed, to extend a helping hand to India that’s going through a deadly second surge of Covid-19. Secretary of State Antony Blinken virtually met over 130 U.S. CEOs on Monday to discuss how to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: After outrage in several quarters over its denial last week to export raw materials for manufacturing Covid vaccines outside, the United States changed tack during the weekend after some other countries such as China offered to help India in whichever way they could. Then, one top leader after the other—from the U.S. NSA […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a few hours from now, U.S. President Joe Biden will kick off a virtual summit of 40 top world leaders, including Narendra Modi, whose economies generate 80 per cent of global carbon emissions. That figure may convey more than what it actually represents. It includes China at one end, responsible for 30 […]Read More
GOA: The transit of the USS John Paul Jones, a destroyer named after a plucky captain of the US War of Independence, seems to have created some waves as it transited through the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) a few days back. Jones was famous for sailing “in harm’s way”, but has this transit created […]Read More
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