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UNRESTRAINED REGIONAL POWERS JOSTLING FOR CONTROL, BUILDING WEAPONS AND TAKING BOLDER RISKS ARE INFLUENCING TRAJECTORY OF WORLD POLITICS. 26 Dec 2024 - 8:35AMvideocam DONE RIGHT, TRUMP COULD

STRIP US FOREIGN POLICY OF ITS SANCTIMONIOUS RHETORIC AND AVOID THE STRATEGIC DILEMMAS POSED BY A VALUES-BASED POLICY. 29 Nov 2024 - 1:37AMvideocam NUCLEAR ARMS ON BOTH SIDES OF TENSIONS

CAN PREVENT ESCALATIONS INTO OUTRIGHT WAR, AS HAS BEEN THE CASE IN SOUTH ASIA. 24 Oct 2024 - 5:50PMvideocam THE POST-WORLD WAR II GLOBAL SYSTEM CANNOT BUILD CONSENSUS, PREVENT WARS OR IMPOSE

COSTS ON AGGRESSORS WITHOUT INVOLVING THE MIDDLE POWERS. 2 Oct 2024 - 8:30PMvideocam Advertisement WITH INCREASED GLOBAL ECONOMIC ENGAGEMENT, THE US WOULD NOT ONLY BENEFIT FROM TRADE BUT

ALSO THE INFLUX OF PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD. 29 Aug 2024 - 8:30PM IF THE US WANTS TO PROTECT ITS INFLUENCE IN ASIA, IT MUST DRIVE GREATER ECONOMIC ENGAGEMENT WITH ITS REGIONAL PARTNERS.

7 Aug 2024 - 4:30PMvideocam DESPITE US EFFORTS TO ISOLATE RUSSIA AND COUNTER CHINA, COUNTRIES SUCH AS INDIA AND VIETNAM ARE KEEN TO KEEP COUNTERBALANCES IN PLAY. 23 Jul 2024 - 8:54AMvideocam

BOUND BY A DEMOCRACY VS AUTOCRACY RHETORIC, BIDEN HAS EMBRACED THE LEADERS OF ISRAEL AND INDIA DESPITE SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS, MAKING THE US LIABLE TO ALLEGATIONS OF HYPOCRISY. 4 Nov

2023 - 8:30PMvideocam THE US STILL HAS DISTINCT ADVANTAGES, INCLUDING, CRITICALLY, A GROWING POPULATION. BUT IT MUST EASE OFF SANCTIONS AND ITS SINGLE-MINDED FOCUS ON SECURITY. 15 Sep 2023

- 7:30PMvideocam DOMESTIC INSTABILITY COULD MAKE NEW DELHI LESS WILLING TO COMMIT SUPPORT TO WASHINGTON AGAINST BEIJING, WHICH IN TURN COULD DECREASE US CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR A DEFENCE

PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIA. 21 Jun 2023 - 1:30AM UNLIKE INDIA, SOUTH KOREA IS IN LOCKSTEP WITH THE US ON RUSSIAN SANCTIONS, XINJIANG AND EVEN TAIWAN, AND TALK IS TURNING TO QUAD MEMBERSHIP. AS

THE US-INDIA GULF GROWS, THE DANGER IS THAT CHINA MIGHT SEEK A THAW WITH INDIA – AND A WEAKENING OF THE US ALLIANCE. 27 Mar 2023 - 1:00AMvideocam THE FRENZY AND PANIC OVER SUCH A MINOR

THREAT LEAVE QUESTION MARKS OVER HOW THE US WILL RESPOND TO A MORE SERIOUS MILITARY CRISIS IN ASIA. THE RAPID BREAKDOWN IN US-CHINA DIALOGUE ALSO SUGGESTS ALLIES SUCH AS JAPAN AND SOUTH

KOREA WOULD BE LEFT MORE VULNERABLE IN CASE OF CONFLICT. 20 Feb 2023 - 1:00AMvideocam ATTEMPTS BY THE US TO ISOLATE RIVALS LIKE CHINA AND RUSSIA WHILE REASSERTING ITS GLOBAL LEADERSHIP HAVE

LED TO PROTECTIONISM IN TRADE AND QUESTIONABLE DEFENCE TIES. THE US SHOULD CONVERSELY BE CHAMPIONING ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION WHILE BEING TOUGHER ON MILITARY PARTNERS WHO FAIL TO UPHOLD

DEMOCRATIC VALUES. 7 Jan 2023 - 1:56AMvideocam TENSIONS WITH THE US AND IN THE REGION, WHETHER WITH INDIA OR IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, WILL LIMIT CHINA’S ABILITY TO EXERT INFLUENCE FAR AND

WIDE. THESE TENSIONS MUST BE MANAGED WELL OR BEIJING MAY OPT FOR A MORE MUSCULAR PROJECTION OF ITS POWER. 19 Nov 2022 - 2:08AMvideocam FOR YEARS, CHINA FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC MATTERS BOTH AT

HOME AND ABROAD, WITH THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE EXEMPLIFYING THAT APPROACH. BUT AS ITS ECONOMIC INFLUENCE ENCOUNTERS ROADBLOCKS, THERE ARE SIGNS OF A PIVOT IN CHINESE DIPLOMACY TOWARDS

GEOPOLITICAL WRANGLING AND MILITARISM. 15 Aug 2022 - 9:15AMvideocam NOT ONLY IS PUTIN FAR FROM BEING UNIVERSALLY SHUNNED, HIS SYMPATHISERS INCLUDE THOSE SUFFERING MOST FROM THE FOOD AND

ENERGY CRISIS SPARKED BY HIS WAR. THROUGH WELL-PLACED PROPAGANDA, HE HAS BLAMED WESTERN SANCTIONS FOR RISING GLOBAL POVERTY, A CLAIM REINFORCED BY THE WEST’S OWN NEGLECT OF STRUGGLING

NATIONS. 14 Jul 2022 - 3:30AMvideocam WITH CHINA’S ECONOMY BOGGED DOWN AMID COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS, NOW IS THE TIME FOR THE US TO REACH OUT TO ASIA’S TRADE-DEPENDENT NATIONS THAT ARE SEEKING

HELP OUT OF THE PANDEMIC-FUELLED ECONOMIC CRISIS. 28 May 2022 - 2:00AMvideocam UNDER MACRON, FRANCE HAS CHAMPIONED AN INDEPENDENT EUROPEAN FOREIGN POLICY AND EXPANDED ITS FOOTPRINT AS AN

ARMS SUPPLIER. AS THE US FRAMES ITS GEOPOLITICAL BATTLES IN IDEOLOGICAL TERMS, FRANCE COULD PROVIDE ASIA’S ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACIES WITH A LESS DIFFICULT ALTERNATIVE. 21 Apr 2022 -

2:32AMvideocam NOT ONLY HAVE US AND EUROPEAN SANCTIONS LARGELY FAILED TO MAKE AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENTS TOE THE LINE, THEY HAVE FURTHER ENTRENCHED THOSE REGIMES AND FUELLED AN EAST-WEST

GEOPOLITICAL RIFT. WITH THE WEST’S INFLUENCE WANING, REVIVING MULTILATERAL DIALOGUE WITH COUNTRIES THAT DO NOT SHARE ITS NORMS MAY BE THE ONLY WAY OUT. 14 Mar 2022 - 12:30AMvideocam FOR ALL

THE TALK OF BONHOMIE AND COOPERATION, SOURCES OF TENSION REMAIN BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS. RUSSIA’S THREATS OVER UKRAINE AND ACTIVITIES IN CENTRAL ASIA RISK INSTABILITY IN AREAS WHERE CHINA

HAS SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC INTERESTS. 11 Feb 2022 - 1:30AMvideocam WITH WASHINGTON DISTRACTED BY POLITICAL CRISIS AT HOME, BEIJING HAS STEADILY INVESTED IN THE INEVITABLE SHIFT AWAY FROM

FOSSIL FUELS TOWARDS GREEN ENERGY. CHINA’S CONTROL TODAY OF KEY MINERALS SUCH AS LITHIUM AND COBALT LEAVES THE WORLD WITH LITTLE OPTION BUT TO DEPEND ON IT FOR AT LEAST THE MEDIUM TERM. 1

Dec 2021 - 6:45AM INDIA’S DIFFICULTIES AT HOME AND STRATEGIC HEDGING ABROAD THREATEN TO ENGENDER A TRUST DEFICIT WITH WASHINGTON. IF DELHI WANTS TO INCREASE ITS RELEVANCE IN THE REGION AND

GUARD AGAINST BEING OVERSHADOWED WITHIN THE US-LED SECURITY SPHERE, IT MUST FIRST FIX ITS DOMESTIC FAILINGS. 2 Oct 2021 - 8:45AMvideocam OVERTURES TO PAKISTAN, KASHMIR AND THE TALIBAN ARE A

SIGNIFICANT SHIFT IN MODI’S FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY. IF HE IS TO SUSTAIN PEACE FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME, HE WILL HAVE TO OVERCOME SIGNIFICANT TRUST DEFICITS WITH GROUPS HINDU NATIONALISTS

HAVE VILIFIED. 27 Jun 2021 - 8:45AMvideocam AT A TIME WHEN INDIA NEEDS ALL THE HELP IT CAN GET, ITS INSECURE, AGGRESSIVE POSTURING IS BIZARRE AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. INDIA SHOULD FOCUS ON

BUILDING ITS STATE CAPACITY, AND ITS FOREIGN POLICY SHOULD MAKE THE WORLD A PARTNER IN THAT EFFORT. 19 May 2021 - 9:15AMvideocam THE QUAD’S INVESTMENT IN INDIA’S VACCINE MANUFACTURING

CAPACITY SHOWS THE GROUPING COULD BE A LONG-TERM PARTNER IN SOLVING INDIA’S DEVELOPMENTAL CHALLENGES. BUT NEW DELHI’S MULTI-ALIGNMENT STRATEGY MIGHT UNDERMINE THE QUAD’S WILLINGNESS TO

INVEST IN INDIA. 30 Mar 2021 - 8:30AMvideocam INDIA’S INCONSISTENT FOREIGN POLICY HAS ALIENATED NEIGHBOURS, WITH CHINA BECOMING THE DEFAULT OPTION FOR COUNTERBALANCING ITS PRIMACY IN SOUTH

ASIA. THE LACK OF ADVOCATES FOR STATE-BUILDING GIVES INDIA A CHANCE TO LEAD EFFORTS IN MYANMAR AND SOLIDIFY ITS GLOBAL STANDING. 15 Feb 2021 - 10:15AMvideocam INDIA’S CHALLENGE WILL BE TO

KEEP BIDEN COMMITTED TO THE INDO-PACIFIC, WHICH MEANS IT MUST MAKE ITSELF MORE RELEVANT TO THE US AND ITS ALLIES. DELHI SHOULD CONSIDER A MORE PROACTIVE POLICY IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA AND

VOCALLY OPPOSE CHINESE MILITARISATION. 1 Jan 2021 - 10:28AMvideocam THE REGIONAL COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECAPTURE INDIA’S SUCCESS THROUGH ECONOMIC

LIBERALISATION. INSTEAD, IT NOW FINDS ITSELF ISOLATED AND HAS COMPROMISED ITS INFLUENCE IN THE REGION. 23 Nov 2020 - 8:47AMvideocam INDIA IS USING CAUTIOUS RHETORIC IN THE HOPE OF EASING

TENSIONS WITH CHINA AND MAINTAINING THE EAST-WEST BALANCING ACT. HOWEVER, PUBLIC OUTRAGE OVER A NUMBER OF ISSUES, INCLUDING INDIAN SOLDIERS DYING IN LADAKH, IS COMPLICATING DIPLOMACY. 26 Oct

2020 - 10:15AMvideocam ASIAN NATIONS, FOR WHOM THE CHINESE THREAT IS CLOSER TO HOME, WOULD WELCOME A RETURN TO THE US’ LONG-STANDING FOREIGN POLICY TRADITIONS AND GLOBAL LEADERSHIP INSTEAD

OF THE TRANSACTIONAL APPROACH FAVOURED BY TRUMP. 6 Oct 2020 - 6:48AMvideocam