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Israel requires a fresh approach with Palestine

Executing an all-out war on Hamas is not going to once and for all resolve Israel’s fundamental insecurity, which has a structural character.

Palestinians inspect damages in the aftermath of Israeli strikes in Gaza City on October 9.(Reuters)

opinion

Published on Oct 09, 2023 12:36 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

IMEC promises a new model of globalisation

The beauty of IMEC is that it contains something attractive in it for all eight parties that have signed the founding Memorandum of Understanding

US President Joe Biden, Saudi Arabian PM and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and PM Narendra Modi seen during the launch of the India-Middle East-Europe economic corridor.(AP)

opinion

Published on Sep 18, 2023 09:25 AM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Facing China at Brics, India stands its ground

India's growing economic potential and favourable global strategic environment position it as a rising power within Brics and a challenge to China's dominance

The Johannesburg summit revealed how far India has come on the international stage(via AFP)

opinion

Published on Aug 24, 2023 09:33 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Exercise caution on plans to expand Brics

A measured and gradual process of expansion for Brics is advised for the survival and effectiveness of the institution.

India is cagey about Brics’ expansion which lets China gain the upper hand in decision-making and agenda-setting.(Reuters | Representational Image)

opinion

Published on Aug 02, 2023 10:06 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

NATO expansionism could seed instability

Sweden's entry into NATO, following Finland's membership, has further encircled Russia and extended NATO's presence along Russia's western borders.

Prior to the Ukraine war, Russia’s land border with NATO ran up to 754 miles. (REUTERS)

opinion

Published on Jul 16, 2023 01:21 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Wagner’s attempted coup flags risks for Russia’s strongman

What exactly is Wagner and how did it rise to the stature of a parallel authority in a country where power is supposed to flow from the top?

The shortlived mutiny of the Wagner paramilitary group against Russia’s military establishment briefly raised fears of a coup d’etat or civil war, and was mysteriously aborted later through backroom deals.(REUTERS)

opinion

Published on Jun 26, 2023 10:14 AM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

India-US defence ties can be a game-changer

Deepening India-US ties lay a favourable balance of power in Asia and keep a check on authoritarian China’s push for hegemony in the Indo-Pacific

If the new India-US defence industrial roadmap fulfils its potential, it will have far-reaching strategic effects(HT File)

opinion

Published on Jun 07, 2023 09:22 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

G7 and Quad are finally taking China head on

The G7’s launch of a new “Coordination Platform on Economic Coercion” is aimed at China’s predatory practices

The G7 and Quad are finally putting the brakes on China so that the Asian country will not be allowed to remain the only game in town(PTI)

opinion

Published on May 23, 2023 08:16 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Pak’s terror factory is exposing SCO’s limits

The global history of terrorism shows how it has metastasised in a context of geopolitical rivalries and divisions which override shared multilateral interests

The gap between Pakistan’s words and deeds was so stark that India’s external affairs minister S Jaishankar had to call out Bhutto as the “promoter, justifier and spokesperson of a terrorism industry”, and remind SCO peers that “taking our eyes off this menace would be detrimental to our security interests”. (ANI)

opinion

Updated on May 06, 2023 07:38 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

India’s re-emergence as a leader of global Buddhism

India’s keenness to propagate Buddhism is in keeping with its legacy as the fountainhead from which the teachings of the Buddha spread worldwide.

PM Modi at Global Buddhist Summit in Delhi on Thursday.(ANI)

opinion

Published on Apr 20, 2023 06:50 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

India-Russia ties are facing a long-term conundrum

A new foreign policy concept released by Russia on March 31 reveals the direction of Putin's thinking.

The problem here is that Putin wishes to club China and India together as part of a united front to counterbalance the West, but Beijing and New Delhi have their own distinct policies that do not coincide with Moscow’s worldview. (Reuters)

opinion

Published on Apr 06, 2023 07:28 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

The glaring paradox of Xi Jinping as peace mediator

It is ironic that the same China embarking on ambitious behind-the-scenes diplomacy to douse flames in distant geopolitical flashpoints — Iran and Saudia Arabia — is unwilling to resolve its conflicts with its neighbours.

Xi believes in establishing a Sino-centric regional system where there will be order under Chinese tutelage rather than a community of equal sovereign States. (AFP file)

opinion

Published on Mar 16, 2023 07:24 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

How India can expand Hindi’s global footprint

For Hindi to be internationalised, a precondition is to domestically affirm it within India.

Given that Hindi is the first, second or third language of at least 57% of Indians, the government has taken steps to counterbalance elitist English primacy over Hindi. (Pixabay)

opinion

Updated on Feb 26, 2023 08:06 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Controlling gun crimes needs social reset in US

Compared to democracies such as Australia, Britain, New Zealand and South Africa, which had gun massacre incidents of their own but managed to legislate and reduce the supply of weapons, the US is more extreme in terms of corporate power, social fragmentation and ideological schisms

This chronic failure to regulate availability of assault weapons, despite the mounting toll of victims and the psychological grief, is a function of excess free market capitalism, ideological polarisation and the lingering effects of centuries of slavery and racial discrimination (AFP)

opinion

Updated on Feb 06, 2023 09:52 AM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Getting to peace in Ukraine needs wisdom

The Orthodox Christmas ceasefire experiment collapsed, but it was a revealing moment that hinted at exhaustion and showed how bravado does run out of steam in long-winded conflicts. Seizing such moments with wisdom in the future will eventually open the pathway to peace.

Plumes of smoke rise from a Russian strike during a 36-hour ceasefire over Orthodox Christmas declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, from the frontline Donbas city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, January 7, 2023. (REUTERS)

opinion

Updated on Jan 08, 2023 07:52 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Navigating a world of all-round weaponisation

In the era of all-round weaponisation and breakdown of universal globalisation, statecraft has its task cut out to attend to constructing politically friendlier networks or clubs. In times of intense crisis, the risk of even friends turning selfish remains. But friends will at least not intentionally weaponise resources against each other

The phenomenon of weaponisation of a range of goods and services such as food, fuel, electricity, finance and shipping has stood out during the Russia-Ukraine war. (AP)

opinion

Published on Dec 25, 2022 08:37 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

After Tawang, prepare for more Chinese aggression

China is taking the gloves off and indicating it is ready to use force to impose its ever-expanding claims and preferences on neighbours.

Given Xi’s megalomaniacal and hardline mindset, worse may be to come and we should mobilise as a nation for a sustained struggle. (Reuters)

opinion

Published on Dec 14, 2022 07:13 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Three top priorities for India as G20 president

India’s G20 presidency, with its emphasis on the needs and claims of the global South, has to deliver a G20 development deal that addresses the concerns of weak and poor nations with no seat at the table

The global economy’s slump has to be arrested through concerted moves by the G20, which has demonstrated crisis-fighting skills in the past. (Shutterstock)

opinion

Updated on Nov 24, 2022 08:56 AM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

As Brazil turns Left, will the new era of socialism last?

Socialism, which lost steam after the first pink tide subsided and gave way to conservative regimes a decade ago, now has a second lease of life.

Lula has proclaimed that “there are not two Brazils. We are a single country, a single people.” (AFP)

opinion

Published on Nov 01, 2022 08:28 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Xi’s quest to solidify his power poses grave risks to the world

The biggest danger is Xi’s excessive personalisation of power. With internal checks and balances extinguished, the fate of the Chinese people rests on Xi’s judgment.

Since his advent in 2012, Xi has stamped out dissent with systematic ruthlessness, reminiscent of his role model Mao Zedong. (AFP)

opinion

Published on Oct 20, 2022 07:41 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Ukraine: Putin is in an unwinnable quagmire

There seem to be few corrective mechanisms within Russia to compel Putin, who has dominated his country for 22 years, to change course and beat a retreat

From his labyrinth in the Kremlin, Putin does not see Ukraine’s spirited armed resistance to Russian occupation as the real problem. Rather, as his defence minister Sergei Shoigu puts it, Russia is at war “not so much with the Ukrainian army as it is with the collective West.” In Putin’s narrative, Ukrainians have become “cannon fodder” or proxies being exploited by the West to break up and tie down Russia. (AP)

opinion

Updated on Sep 23, 2022 06:24 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Why US-China tensions may lead to strategic instability

The expectation that Washington and Beijing will compete hard but manage tensions below a certain threshold is still valid, but it is hanging by a thread.

People walk past a billboard welcoming US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in Taipei, Taiwan. (AP)

opinion

Published on Aug 03, 2022 09:08 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

The China-Pakistan alliance may lead to more violence, terror

The investments that China has already sunk into CPEC and its strategy of ensuring India is kept under check in South Asia mean that Beijing will keep ploughing ahead to take over Pakistan inch-by-inch

Police adjusts crime scene barricade tape at the blast site a day after a suicide attack on a van near the Confucius Institute, Karachi, April 27, 2022 (AFP)

opinion

Updated on May 04, 2022 08:40 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Countering China’s ‘infowar’: India must think and act sharper

Playing defensive is not a losing strategy. But India must display intent that it can also bat on the front foot in emerging domains such as ‘informatised warfare’

If India’s armed forces have undertaken physical counter-offensive manoeuvers against the PLA along the border, why not unleash Indian cyber warriors to deflate China’s inflated hyper-nationalistic self-image and fuel already simmering domestic dissent among Chinese netizens about their government’s non-transparency? (AP)

opinion

Updated on Jan 09, 2022 08:51 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

A century later, the Chinese Communist Party is at the crossroads

When Mao’s PRC was established in 1949, it was through such a bloody process against all odds that the new State’s outlook was militaristic and hostile

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (File photo)

opinion

Published on Jun 30, 2021 04:34 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Decoding the Washington-Moscow-Beijing triangle

With the presidency of Donald Trump not delivering relief to Russia despite ardent hopes in Moscow, Putin accelerated military and economic cooperation with China to demonstrate that he had other options

opinion

Updated on Jun 22, 2021 06:13 AM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

Suu Kyi’s win is comparable to Mandela’s ‘Long Walk to Freedom’

Suu Kyi’s win is comparable to Nelson Mandela’s ‘Long Walk to Freedom’. Yet, even though the NLD is on course to sweep more than two-thirds of the parliamentary seats, Suu Kyi will not become president of Myanmar the way Mandela did after apartheid was overthrown in South Africa writes Sreeram Chaulia

Myanmar's National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves her party headquarters after talking to supporters about the general elections in Yangon, Myanmar November 9, 2015.(Reuters Photo)

analysis

Updated on Nov 10, 2015 11:03 AM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

UN must revamp itself if it wishes to remain relevant

The world body cannot tackle the challenges of this century unless there are reforms in its structure and modalities.

Members of the United Nations Security Council during a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York. (Reuters File Photo)

analysis

Updated on May 04, 2017 09:26 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySreeram Chaulia

Saarc and Asean should work to fix growing migrant crisis

The surge of migrants and refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar, on unstable boats and headed towards an unknown horizon in Indonesia and Malaysia, has shaken human conscience. Unwanted in their home countries these people are virtually prisoners of unscrupulous human smuggling networks spread across South and Southeast Asia. The discovery of mass graves in northern Malaysia illustrates this saga of cruelty and exploitation of the powerless.

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Updated on May 27, 2015 10:35 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

The onus of risk analysis is on editors

The Paris terror attack reminds us that there is a higher purpose than defending legal rights as absolute

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Updated on Jan 08, 2015 09:22 PM IST

BySreeram Chaulia

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Executing an all-out war on Hamas is not going to once and for all resolve Israel’s fundamental insecurity, which has a structural character.

The beauty of IMEC is that it contains something attractive in it for all eight parties that have signed the founding Memorandum of Understanding

India's growing economic potential and favourable global strategic environment position it as a rising power within Brics and a challenge to China's dominance

A measured and gradual process of expansion for Brics is advised for the survival and effectiveness of the institution.

Sweden's entry into NATO, following Finland's membership, has further encircled Russia and extended NATO's presence along Russia's western borders.

What exactly is Wagner and how did it rise to the stature of a parallel authority in a country where power is supposed to flow from the top?

Deepening India-US ties lay a favourable balance of power in Asia and keep a check on authoritarian China’s push for hegemony in the Indo-Pacific

The G7’s launch of a new “Coordination Platform on Economic Coercion” is aimed at China’s predatory practices

The global history of terrorism shows how it has metastasised in a context of geopolitical rivalries and divisions which override shared multilateral interests

India’s keenness to propagate Buddhism is in keeping with its legacy as the fountainhead from which the teachings of the Buddha spread worldwide.

A new foreign policy concept released by Russia on March 31 reveals the direction of Putin's thinking.

It is ironic that the same China embarking on ambitious behind-the-scenes diplomacy to douse flames in distant geopolitical flashpoints — Iran and Saudia Arabia — is unwilling to resolve its conflicts with its neighbours.

For Hindi to be internationalised, a precondition is to domestically affirm it within India.

Compared to democracies such as Australia, Britain, New Zealand and South Africa­, which had gun massacre incidents of their own but managed to legislate and reduce the supply of weapons, the US is more extreme in terms of corporate power, social fragmentation and ideological schisms

The Orthodox Christmas ceasefire experiment collapsed, but it was a revealing moment that hinted at exhaustion and showed how bravado does run out of steam in long-winded conflicts. Seizing such moments with wisdom in the future will eventually open the pathway to peace.

China is taking the gloves off and indicating it is ready to use force to impose its ever-expanding claims and preferences on neighbours.

India’s G20 presidency, with its emphasis on the needs and claims of the global South, has to deliver a G20 development deal that addresses the concerns of weak and poor nations with no seat at the table

Socialism, which lost steam after the first pink tide subsided and gave way to conservative regimes a decade ago, now has a second lease of life.

The biggest danger is Xi’s excessive personalisation of power. With internal checks and balances extinguished, the fate of the Chinese people rests on Xi’s judgment.

There seem to be few corrective mechanisms within Russia to compel Putin, who has dominated his country for 22 years, to change course and beat a retreat

The expectation that Washington and Beijing will compete hard but manage tensions below a certain threshold is still valid, but it is hanging by a thread.

The investments that China has already sunk into CPEC and its strategy of ensuring India is kept under check in South Asia mean that Beijing will keep ploughing ahead to take over Pakistan inch-by-inch

Playing defensive is not a losing strategy. But India must display intent that it can also bat on the front foot in emerging domains such as ‘informatised warfare’

When Mao’s PRC was established in 1949, it was through such a bloody process against all odds that the new State’s outlook was militaristic and hostile

With the presidency of Donald Trump not delivering relief to Russia despite ardent hopes in Moscow, Putin accelerated military and economic cooperation with China to demonstrate that he had other options

The world body cannot tackle the challenges of this century unless there are reforms in its structure and modalities.

The Paris terror attack reminds us that there is a higher purpose than defending legal rights as absolute

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Compared to democracies such as Australia, Britain, New Zealand and South Africa, which had gun massacre incidents of their own but managed to legislate and reduce the supply of weapons, the US is more extreme in terms of corporate power, social fragmentation and ideological schisms