Nandan Unnikrishnan

Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation. Retweets are not endorsement!!!

[National Defence College, New Delhi @ndc_mod]

Shri Nandan Unnikrishnan, Distinguished Fellow #ORF delivered a talk on the topic ‘Geopolitical Resurgence of Russia & its implications in the New World Order’ at #NDC today. He highlighted Russia’s re-emergence as an important #GlobalPower in #Geopolitical landscape.
@jonandan

[Samir Saran @samirsaran]

The stage is set - announcing #RaisinaDialogue2026

@MEAIndia @orfonline @rayof_thesun

Raisina Dialogue 2026 — India’s flagship platform on geopolitics and geoeconomics.

📅 5–7 March 2026 | 📍New Delhi

[Happymon Jacob @HappymonJacob]

Dear Friends of India,
Your (misplaced) fears about a nuclear war in the subcontinent shouldn't make you forgive/condone terrorism.

[Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 @akarlin]

Russia is probably the world's most Indophile major white country (80% approval rating).

[Nandan Unnikrishnan @jonandan]

Another must read from the inimitable ⁦@samirsaran⁩ 5 ways in which India-Russia relationship will shape the world in 2025 https://t.co/9eAleoV1JQ

[Nandan Unnikrishnan @jonandan]

Must read from ⁦@niveditakapoor⁩ Multilateral Cooperation in India-Russia Ties: A Decadal Review of BRICS and SCO ⁦@DipanjanET⁩ ⁦@rajorshiroy7⁩ ⁦@AjayKamalakaran⁩ https://t.co/2pUL0JJ9XC

[Samir Saran @samirsaran]

Announcing: The second ‘Raisina Down Under’ in Canberra, 5–6 Nov, 2024 @raisinadialogue

We will discuss energy, climate, blue economy & digital futures and engage with the key geopolitical trends at play here and beyond

@MEAIndia @dfat @ASPI_org @BassiJustin @ramthebestIFS

[Samir Saran @samirsaran]

#ALERT

@orfonline, @ril_foundation & @UNinIndia are delighted to announce our annual ministerial session during the #UNGA79 week.

A Tiger's Tale: Crafting a New Development Paradigm

📆25 September 2024 | 📷New York

Register here to join in-person: https://t.co/xdU7a9Yo6L

[Samir Saran @samirsaran]

3 lessons from this decade of conflict:
- current governance structure has collapsed
- pace of change is faster than ever, &
- #GlobalSouth cannot be ignored

With @ParuyrPh, @ShombiSharp, @ekitbi, @anamiguel1981 & @gjpappin

https://t.co/exTT9UYq5d

https://t.co/dkbmZOpBUl via @YouTube

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

🇸🇬KISHORE MAHBUBANI:

"Where is China heading? Is it going to disrupt the world order, or will it become, in a sense, a supporter of the current world order?

My answer is that it will depend on how we treat China as it is rising.

Napoleon famously said, 'Don't wake up the sleeping dragon, China, because if you do, it's going to shake the world.'

Now, you and I know there are two ways of waking up a person.

Either you wake them gently, whisper soft words into their ear, and nudge them gently, and they will wake up relatively happy.

Or you could take a bucket of water, splash it on them, and say, 'Wake up!' You can imagine how angry that person's going to be.

Paradoxically, while the United States, to be fair, engaged China very well during the Cold War, particularly from Kissinger's visit in 1971 to roughly the end of the Obama era in 2016, for roughly 45 years, the United States did engage China quite well.

In the process, it created a China that had stakes in the current world order and became a responsible stakeholder in many ways.

Since then, however, the United States has decided to do the opposite and use all kinds of measures to stop the rise of China.

Even though the U.S. is bitterly divided as a society, and Trump and Biden don't agree on anything, they do agree on one thing: it's time to stop China.

I think, by the way, that this is an unwise policy because it isn't going to work.

You can't stop China's rise.

China's rise or demise will be determined by internal forces within China. Outsiders cannot influence it.

So, if the United States continues to take measures against China—tariffs, chip restrictions, sanctions—China is clearly going to emerge as a very angry dragon.

I wonder whether the West has considered this and asked, 'Is this what we want to see happen in the world?'

Now, for us in Asia, the biggest mistake we are making is that we can see the West creating an angry dragon. We know that this angry dragon will be a problem for us, but we keep absolutely quiet while the West is making the dragon angry.

That's so unwise of us Asians.

The trouble about Asians, as you know, is that we are too polite.

And when the angry dragon is woken up, the United States may one day sail home and say, 'Okay, I'm going to go home. I don't care what happens.'

Who's left to deal with the angry dragon? We are.

So why aren't we speaking out?

Why aren't we saying the most logical and most obvious thing that, 'Hey, what are you doing? What are you trying to achieve?'

We should be the ones acting to temper the forces that are trying to create unnecessary conflict, because our own interests will be endangered by doing so.

But we haven't.

So far, there's been no leader who's been willing to do so."

[Nandan Unnikrishnan @jonandan]

@meelonmuskusa 56

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

We broke the Russia-China axis in the 1960s. Peak foolishness to assume we can’t again. BTW these were the same people assuring us for 15 years that “Russia will never gang up with China”, when we were repeatedly saying in multiple forums, that they would if pushed too hard.

[Jyoti Malhotra @jomalhotra]

Why Modi is going to Moscow on July 8, why Taliban are not terrorists & shd be recognised, why Russia talked to US abt Taliban long before Doha & why India is buying cheap Russian oil, Russia's South Asia pointperson & Afghan envoy #ZamirKabulov tells me https://t.co/cbjbCNbGov

[Jyoti Malhotra @jomalhotra]

Why India must improve ties with US but not at Russia's expense & why Taliban aren't terrorists, #ZamirKabulov, Russia's pointman for South Asia & presidential envoy for Afghanistan tells me in this frank & no-holds-barred interview. Watch @thetribunechd https://t.co/YFQXaOVBHD

[Zorawar Daulet Singh @Z_DauletSingh]

Wonder if it occurred to any of those western leaders commemorating the 1944 seaborne invasion of Europe that it was the greatest pincer move in world history between the Soviet\Russian Red Army and (primarily) US-British forces to liberate Europe from a common foe.

Stalin’s reaction upon receiving official news from Roosevelt & Churchill in April 1944 about their decision to launch Operation Overlord: “Our allies are in a hurry. They are afraid we will rout Nazi Germany without them. Of course, it is in our interests to see Germany finally beginning to fight on two fronts.”

The Normandy landings in June 1944 were matched by a coordinated massive Soviet offensive that within two months would destroy a quarter of the German armies in the east. Over the previous three years, the Red Army had, at great cost, shattered almost everything the formidable German military machine had thrown at it. The outcome of the war was ultimately decided in that vital eastern front.

The Normandy landings were more crucial for the post-war geopolitical order in Europe, providing America a share of the fruits of victory along with the Soviets and an opportunity to extend their spheres of influence over Western and Eastern Europe.

[Nandan Unnikrishnan @jonandan]

@FabindiaNews please improve your customer care. Currently it sucks...

[Jyoti Malhotra @jomalhotra]

@thetribunechd I am deeply privileged to be part of India’s oldest newspaper, to be guided by the wisdom of The Tribune’s trustees & to work with a team which has inherited the courage and composure that accompanies the “voice of the people.” So watch this space, folks ! Follow @thetribunechd

[Nandan Unnikrishnan @jonandan]

@KabirTaneja 🤣🤣🤣

[Nandan Unnikrishnan @jonandan]

@DipanjanET @pranabsamanta @aparajitatweets @IndiainItaly @ItalyinIndia @MEAIndia Congratulations!

[Vinay Kumar @vkumar1969]

Privileged to receive my Letter of Credence as Ambassador of India to the Russian Federation from Hon’ble Rashtrapatiji @rashtrapatibhvn today. ⁦@IndEmbMoscow⁩