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Sreeram Chaulia

Sreeram Chaulia

Articles by Sreeram Chaulia

In Trumptalk, echoes of new coarse diplomatese

The heterodox, unfiltered and unscripted Trump is unlike any previous American president. (AP)

Updated on Apr 28, 2026 15:25 IST

After Khamenei’s death, unravelling of the regime

The regime’s strategic assets — its controversial nuclear programme and vast missile stockpiles — have been paraded as inalienable crown jewels of the Islamic Republic. (West Asia News Agency via Reuters)

Updated on Mar 5, 2026 14:57 IST

In Bondi attack, echoes of age-old anti-Semitism

Unearthing and foiling anti-Semitic plots will require far greater intelligence-sharing and cooperation at the international level. (AFP)

Updated on Dec 18, 2025 15:54 IST

Safeguarding the G20 for the Global South

If India’s historic G20 presidency in 2023 gave the African Union full membership, then South Africa’s presidency ensured that the interests of 1.5 billion African people cannot be ignored. (AP)

Updated on Nov 25, 2025 15:41 IST

India and the world: The ‘self’ pivot in Indian diplomacy

A push is being made under the National Deep Water Exploration Mission to scout for oil and gas in pivotal sites like the Andaman Sea. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Oct 22, 2025 14:56 IST

Trade deal as the grammar for closer India-Europe ties

The EU and India are currently at a juncture where their respective strategic autonomies are at stake. Hence, they need to be bolder and prioritise long-term win-win cooperation over haggling cussedly about specific sectors. (HT Archive)

Updated on Sep 12, 2025 15:33 IST

Behind Trump’s pursuit of ending Ukraine war

It must be acknowledged that Trump’s heterodox methods do hold potential to break the mould and get out of the present morass. (AFP)

Updated on Aug 21, 2025 14:57 IST

Navigating a tricky new era for Brics

In the light of Trump’s attempt to force the international system to shift to bilateralism, Brics is rallying around the principle of multilateralism. (AFP)

Updated on Jul 9, 2025 15:44 IST

New enemy in the West is the illegal migrant

Record numbers of people moving past national borders are also ensuring that the word migrant has an edgy and controversial connotation. (AFP)

Updated on Jun 20, 2025 15:06 IST

The foreign hand in the India-Pakistan face-off

China proved that it remains Pakistan’s guarantor and aims to stay as its primary weapons salesman (X.com)

Updated on May 13, 2025 15:19 IST

Academia vs Trump is a high stakes ideology war

Harvard, the richest university on earth with its own independent endowment of more than $50 billion, might resist in spite of the sudden loss of $2.2 billion in federal grants, but not every US university can afford to lose government funds (REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 14:15 IST

Strategic flexibility is the lodestar for India’s US policy

**EDS: THIRD PARTY IMAGE** In this image released by PMO on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Donald Trump during a joint press conference at the White House, in Washington, DC, USA. (PMO via PTI Photo) (PTI02_14_2025_000065A) (PMO)

Updated on Feb 14, 2025 16:01 IST

The US deep state and its discontents

Due to its cryptic and obscure nature and the vast sums of money it commands, the US deep state is the usual suspect whenever something goes awry REUTERS/Leah Millis (REUTERS)

Updated on Dec 12, 2024 15:19 IST

How geopolitics is set to change with Trump 2.0

New Delhi, Nov 06 (ANI): (File Photo) Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hand with US President Donald Trump during the joint press statement, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. (ANI Photo) (ANI)

Updated on Nov 6, 2024 13:46 IST

It is too early to write Hezbollah’s obituary

A person holds a poster of Lebanon's Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, during a symbolic funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, September 29, 2024. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani

Updated on Sep 29, 2024 16:52 IST

Brazil-X fight, and limits of free speech in democracies

Demonstrators during a protest against the country's ban of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, on Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024 Photographer: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

Updated on Sep 10, 2024 15:31 IST

Why Israel versus Iran is a lose-lose situation

FILE - In this photo taken and released by the semiofficial Fars News Agency, a Noor missile is launched from the coast to the sea during Iranian naval maneuvers in the Oman Sea, near the port town of Bandar Jask, Iran on May 11, 2010. (Hossein Zohrevand/Fars News Agency, File) (AP)

Updated on Aug 21, 2024 15:35 IST

Moderating politics in the age of extremes

FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures with a bloodied face while he is assisted by U.S. Secret Service personnel after he was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 13, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo (REUTERS)

Updated on Jul 15, 2024 15:32 IST

What Julian Assange did to western world order

TOPSHOT - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gives thumbs up after arriving at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024, after he pleaded guilty at a US court in Saipan to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate US national defence information. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned home to Australia to start life as a free man June 26 after admitting he revealed US defence secrets in a deal that unlocked the door to his London prison cell. (Photo by WILLIAM WEST / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Jun 26, 2024 15:46 IST

Chabahar is a metaphor for strategic autonomy

The agreement signed by India and Iran will facilitate the long-term development of Shahid Beheshti terminal of Chabahar port. (PTI photo)

Updated on May 29, 2024 18:17 IST

Quad needs a security thrust to restrict China

FILE- Leaders of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) from left to right, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, pose for photo at the entrance hall of the Prime Minister's Office of Japan in Tokyo, Japan, May 24, 2022. The Indo-Pacific strategic alliance known as the Quad, has repeatedly accused China of flexing its military muscles in the South China Sea and of pushing its maritime territorial claims. The navies of the four countries regularly hold drills seen as part of an initiative to counter China's growing assertiveness in the Pacific.(Zhang Xiaoyu/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Updated on Apr 4, 2024 16:20 IST

Navalny’s death, a crisis moment for democracy

Rain drops cover a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Updated on Feb 29, 2024 16:36 IST

US preoccupation with Iran is to China’s benefit

HT Image

Updated on Feb 8, 2024 16:21 IST

Mapping India’s rise as a civilisational State

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar

Updated on Jan 10, 2024 16:45 IST

Israel requires a fresh approach with Palestine

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

Updated on Oct 9, 2023 07:06 IST

IMEC promises a new model of globalisation

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.

Updated on Sep 18, 2023 03:55 IST

Facing China at Brics, India stands its ground

The Johannesburg summit revealed how far India has come on the international stage

Updated on Aug 24, 2023 16:03 IST

Exercise caution on plans to expand Brics

India is cagey about Brics’ expansion which lets China gain the upper hand in decision-making and agenda-setting.

Updated on Aug 2, 2023 16:36 IST

NATO expansionism could seed instability

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

Updated on Jul 16, 2023 07:51 IST

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

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.

Updated on Jun 26, 2023 04:44 IST

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