My latest column in @HindustanTimes:
The Biden administration has made a multi-billion dollar gamble on manufacturing semiconductors. There’s just one problem: the US doesn’t have the people to see the plan through.
That’s where India comes in.
https://t.co/3D0vTlsV2l
5 tips for better IR programs by @stephenWalt:
1. Connect theory and policy.
2. Teach ‘useful economics’, like the mechanics of the international financial order.
3. Study history, including how it is perceived differently.
4. A ‘big picture’ strategy.
5. Depart from consensus.
I joined a webinar on the Indo Pacific. Was a bit late, first speaker was midway his speech. Said, “Quad is not some ‘ladies group’, it has strategic objectives”.
I left immediately!
भाई लोग, IR won’t forever remain a male dominated field. घुसा लो दिमाग़ में!दुनिया बदल गया है!
🧵 I am cautiously optimistic about the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework #IPEF for a few reasons: enhancement of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ concept, futuristic topics, significant scale and real-world pragmatism (1/7):
https://t.co/63MWxZr4Wu
I don’t see this as being true. Sri Lanka’s current crisis is due to economic reasons & not political, societal or cultural ones.
The country suspended external public debt repayments as it doesn’t have enough foreign currency earnings & resources. Not because of domestic issues
One more relevant factoid. India’s top oil sources are:
1. Iraq 🇮🇶
2. Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
3. UAE 🇦🇪
4. USA 🇺🇸
5. Nigeria 🇳🇬
6. Canada 🇨🇦
Russia’s share has been between 1%-3% in recent years.
#Gazprom shares crash by 97% on LSE
company now worth a mere $250mn
once upon a time it wanted to be world's first $1 trillion company
https://t.co/QBLJDSgAWI
This is how students were treated at the border. Can we get some officials at the border to have situation under control? Students have suffered a lot. Even girls were bitten and firing was done to threaten them.
(16/n)
India made its displeasure with Russia clear in its EOV at UNSC. But not ready to junk the Russia relationship. Very tight balance of 'principles' and 'interests'.
@DrSJaishankar@IndiainUkraine
×× Indian students at Shehyni-Medkya Border Update ××
Dear Sir,
My sister with her group of 10 Indian friends reached the Shehyni-Medkya border in #Ukraine earlier this morning. Currently Indians are NOT allowed to cross the poland border. (1/n)
Janes persistently monitors Russian troop & equipment dispositions, using assured equipment & military unit data. Using Janes Intara to build a common intelligence picture supports you by providing context, closing knowledge gaps & anticipating events https://t.co/gNYihyidaY
View a series of Janes analysis on the Russian build up on the Ukrainian border that leverages our persistent monitoring of Russian troop and equipment sightings https://t.co/7hpN7w3WPU
🧵In this Issue Brief for @orfonline, @Kajari1 and I build on earlier efforts to apply ancient Indian strategy to contemporary geopolitics, this time by using Kautilya’s ‘rajamandala’ concept for constructing India’s Indo-Pacific strategy. (1/10)
https://t.co/tiOU90Jd7b
My recent @MekongReview interview with @MohanCRaja now up and free to read, in which Raja answers the big question: what kind of great power will India become?
Wikipedia describes Subhas Chandra Bose as: “Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempts during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Japan left a troubled legacy” - surely not for Indians?
“India doesn’t have the infrastructure that links the states of India together the way China has developed.”
THIS is what Indian policymakers should be focused on.