M. K. Bhadrakumar was an Indian ambassador and diplomat for decades. Ambassador Bhadrakumar discusses the historic meeting between Russia and India, which aims to rewrite global trade with Prof. Glen Diesen, Norwegian political scientist, commentator and politician currently a professor at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-uVMN-SYxY
US-Russia summit in Budapest is back on track
The G7 foreign ministers meeting in Niagara, Canada, on November 11-12 turned out to be a significant event at a juncture when a pall of uncertainty had descended on the presidential dialogue between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. One may even sense the incipient signs of a new dawn breaking in the joint statement of …
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Syria comes in from the cold
With great prescience, late Henry Kissinger had once said, “You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt, and you can’t make peace without Syria.” The adage remains true even today. Syria has been an astute practitioner of diplomacy in its statecraft, which was not surprising given its origin as a modern state out …
India’s West Asian blues deepen as Gaza Plan shifts gear
A bus carrying Palestinians released from Israeli prisons is greeted by a crowd outside the Nasser hospital, Gaza Strip, Oct 13, 2025 The overnight visit by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to India has been rather thin on the ground. Although this has been his first visit to India as Foreign Minister, and notwithstanding Prime …
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Trump’s moment of truth in new world order
US President Donald Trump (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping after their meeting at Gimhae International Airport, Busan, Oct 30, 2025 The brevity of the US President Donald Trump’s meeting last Thursday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Gimhae International Airport in the port city of Busan, South Korea, which lasted just 100 minutes, compared …
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Trump comes to Asia as peacemaker
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, joined by President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan (L) on a tour of the Forbidden City in Beijing, November 8, 2017 (File photo) The United States used to be an ardent supporter of the rechristening of the Asia-Pacific region as the Indo-Pacific, and in all …
Trump may not follow through on Russian oil or Tomahawk
A filling station of Rosneft, Russia’s biggest oil company, which has been put under sanctions by the Trump Administration (File photo) The US President Donald Trump has seemingly shifted gear in the US strategy to stop Russia on its tracks from creating new facts on the ground in Ukraine. Russian forces have the upper hand …
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India’s Russian oil saga is indeed ending
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a press conference with US President Donald Trump, White House, Washington, Feb 13, 2025 (File photo) The latest US-Indian fracas over Russian oil has been rather odd with Trump attributing to PM Modi explicitly that India has terminated its imports of Russian oil. Why would Trump bluff? One possibility that …
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Neocons celebrate Donald Trump’s humiliation. Why it matters
File photo of Nobel Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado and US President Donald Trump. (Agencies) I still miss the inimitable tag line, Tukde Tukde Gang, literally meaning ‘fragments’, after all these eleven tumultuous years of Indian politics. It was the political catchphrase invented by India’s ruling party, Bharatiya Janata Party, revelling in the sheer exuberance of …
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Sir Creek comes alive from slumber
Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Diwali with Border Security Force , Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel near Indo-Pak border in Kutch, Gujarat, Oct 31, 2024 (File photo) In the Jean-Jacques Annaud film based on William Craig’s 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, Nikita Khrushchev, immediately after arriving in Stalingrad front as the …