As PM Modi prepares to meet Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Kyiv next week, the fractious world order will be on both leaders’ minds PM Narendra Modi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had interacted briefly at the G7 summit in Italy in June and have spoken on the phone subsequently. Cynics in India call Modi’s Kyiv visit a belated attempt to …
At the G20 summit in Bali, as India prepares to assume the group’s year-long presidency, it will be seen by many as the engine that helps propel the world forward As world leaders of the G20 meet in Bali this week, the economic and geopolitical consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war will weigh heavily on the summit. Not only have more …
What Russia is doing in Ukraine is inexcusable. India abstained on 12 October 2022 from a United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions. Next came a raft of United Nations resolutions condemning Russia for the Ukraine invasion, imposing harsh sanctions on Moscow, and calling for Russia’s exclusion from the G20 foreign minister’s summit chaired by …
China’s pre-occupation with Taiwan over the next few years along with its continuing economic slowdown presents India with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebalance the geopolitical odds in its favour Indian policymakers have several economic, geopolitical and military levers to counter the challenge China poses to India’s orderly rise as a regional power today and as a global power in the …