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Prashant Jha

Prashant Jha

Prashant Jha is the Washington DC-based US correspondent of Hindustan Times. He is also the editor of HT Premium. Jha has earlier served as editor-views and national political editor/bureau chief of the paper. He is the author of How the BJP Wins: Inside India's Greatest Election Machine and Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal.

Articles by Prashant Jha

Donald Trump’s six traits as US president

Trump weighs a country on its own merit, as he defines it, rather than as a part of a wider strategy or that country’s role vis-à-vis a third. (REUTERS)

Updated on Jul 29, 2025 09:54 pm IST

Quad remains resilient. But everyone wants to be friends with China again

Trump, to lend retrospective coherence to a badly thought out tariff policy, made it all about China in April. (REUTERS)

Updated on Jul 02, 2025 08:15 pm IST

Emergency spurred seismic shifts in Indian politics

Visitors at an exhibition organised to mark the 50th anniversary of the Emergency imposed in 1975 by then PM Indira Gandhi in New Delhi on June 25. (PTI)

Updated on Jun 25, 2025 06:32 pm IST

The age of adventurism and its cost for nations

Netanyahu may well be tempted to see how far he can go in not just ending the Palestinian dream of statehood but also invading another country. (AP)

Published on Jun 17, 2025 07:43 pm IST

For best results: Why countries group together, despite the UN

A child on a swing outside a Kyiv building bombed by a Russian missile. When fading or dysfunctional multilateralism doesn’t meet a country’s interests, it will find other ways to exert influence or extract resources. This is where the role of the UN becomes vital. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 23, 2025 03:55 pm IST

An experiment UNdone: Prashant Jha writes on what ails the United Nations

(HT Imaging: Puneet Kumar)

Art and Culture

Updated on May 23, 2025 03:51 pm IST

Misreading Donald Trump’s America

India’s biggest analytical mistake may have been assuming that New Delhi was immune to Trump’s ruthless disregard and insensitivity for the political realities of others (AP)

Updated on May 21, 2025 07:16 pm IST

Pahalgam to Rawalpindi via DC: Tale of a conflict

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Published on May 11, 2025 05:44 am IST

India’s America-China-Pakistan test of balance

How India finds the right balance between imposing costs, establishing deterrence and satisfying domestic political opinion without its action leading to escalation, eroding India’s reputation as a responsible power and dragging New Delhi back into a hyphenated morass with Rawalpindi is the key test (Basit Zargar)

Published on May 06, 2025 08:36 pm IST

A multi-front war to remake US & world

Will the Congress remain a co-equal branch of the American government or a subservient one? (REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 22, 2025 09:17 pm IST

Capitalism confronts the Trumpian rupture

A retributive approach, the Trump administration’s thinking goes, will force capital to come back to the US and lead to unprecedented onshoring (REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 02, 2025 04:36 pm IST

After Trump, the world in 2028

Beyond personalities, MAGA politics is marked by hostility to the federal administrative State (REUTERS)

Published on Mar 18, 2025 08:37 pm IST

Redrawing the global map: Prashant Jha on how the pandemic reshaped geopolitics

A protest by anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers in Canada, in 2021. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 07, 2025 07:48 pm IST

The big pivots in global trade: Prashant Jha on the pandemic and globalisation

Shipping containers at a deserted port in Shanghai, in 2022. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 07, 2025 07:53 pm IST

In US Congress, Donald Trump makes four clear bets, retains one hidden card

US President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04 (REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 05, 2025 10:01 pm IST

New Trump plan for rich migrants: $5mn Gold Card

President Donald Trump holds up a hat as he talks with reporters in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (AP)

Published on Feb 27, 2025 12:05 am IST

Told PM Modi will impose reciprocal tariffs on India: US President Donald Trump

Trump added that if Musk wanted to build a factory in India, that was “okay” but also “unfair” to the US. “That’s unfair to us. It’s very unfair.” (REUTERS)

Updated on Feb 20, 2025 01:38 am IST

Follow-through will be Trump’s test for India

The U.S. Air Force's F-35 fifth-generation fighter aircraft performs during Aero India 2025, a military aviation exhibition at the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru on February 13, 2025. (Photo by Idrees MOHAMMED / AFP) (AFP)

Published on Feb 18, 2025 10:04 pm IST

MAGA and MIGA meet to make MEGA: Modi

U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands, at the White House (Reuters)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025 02:13 am IST

Trump, Modi rekindle bonhomie after a 4-year pause

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House(Reuters)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025 02:19 am IST

‘Let people links flourish, but fight illegal migration’

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington DC on Thursday. (AFP)

Published on Feb 15, 2025 12:20 am IST

Howdy Trump at Quad Summit in India

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington DC on Thursday. (AFP)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025 12:18 am IST

Adani to Musk, Modi deftly handles media

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a joint press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House(Reuters)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025 05:12 am IST

Blustery President Trump chooses to hold back on China

US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the East Room of the White House in Washington DC on Thursday. (AFP)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025 12:13 am IST

‘Buy, baby, buy’: Energy connect set for big boost

‘Buy, baby, buy’: Energy connect set for big boost

Updated on Feb 15, 2025 12:12 am IST

A united front against global scourge of terror

The focus on counter-terrorism featured in the joint declaration issued after the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump. (AP)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025 12:09 am IST

The trade battle and possible pact

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on Thursday (PTI)

Published on Feb 14, 2025 05:38 pm IST

A nuanced deal to boost defence, tech ties

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a joint press conference (PTI)

Updated on Feb 15, 2025 02:11 am IST

TRUST replaces iCET: New brand, old spirit on tech partnership

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are pictured in a mirror as they attend a joint press conference at the White House. (REUTERS)

Updated on Feb 14, 2025 03:13 pm IST

Trump signs order on reciprocal tariffs

People hold placards welcoming PM Modi to the US, near the White House on Thursday. (REUTERS)

Published on Feb 14, 2025 12:49 am IST

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