Kanwal Sibal

China would be foolish to think that it can place limits on India-US ties by creating border tensions intermittently as a dissuasive strategy.

The stakes are huge in terms of national security and economic choices India must now make with greater clarity and realism than before.

China's proxies are propagating the absurd proposition that a package deal on the border would include India remaining neutral on US-China issues.

The existing structures of India-China ties are not working and give China the latitude to disrupt them when it wants.

China must be put in its place and now is the chance to do it.

Without being secular themselves, Muslim leaders in the country constantly take shelter behind the secular Indian constitution to disgorge their communal bile.

India's stature and Modi's leadership will get an enormous boost if India defeats this Wuhan virus with least damage.

Chinese ambassadors abroad have abandoned diplomatic decency by abusing and threatening those who dare associate the virus with China by name.

The government has to fight on two fronts — against the internal lobbies ranged against it and the external lobbies as well, with both in symbiosis.

Donald Trump admitted publicly that the Taliban could well take over power in Afghanistan, arguing that the United States cannot be there for another 20 years.

The US President’s speech struck all the right notes about Modi’s leadership and India’s achievements under him.

Given China’s massive global economic footprint, the impact of the epidemic is beginning to be felt, without a crisis point being reached as yet.

While the magazine sweepingly declares that Modi is determined “to transform India from a tolerant, multi-religious place into a chauvinist Hindu state”, it does not explain how India will cease to be multi-religious.

Bolsonaro’s visit marks both a re-affirmation and a consolidation of India-Brazil ties after the high point reached in the relationship under President Lula and the slowdown in momentum under his successor Dilma Roussef.

The huge hullabaloo over the CAA is difficult to understand unless it is a cynical campaign to rouse communal passions under the garb of protecting the secular nature of the Constitution.

The western publications excel in India-baiting, with generous contributions on false narratives by Indian journalists and writers.

The unrestrained wrong impressions perpetrated by the media, political commentators and academia are making mountains of mole-sized problems in India.

With the Rajapaksa brothers in power as President and Prime Minister, India has its diplomatic challenges worked out.

Has Pakistan decided to abandon its revanchist policies against India?

The EU delegation will see for itself that any talk of genocide in the Valley is nonsense.

A president who declares himself as a 'stable genius' and makes foreign policy based on instincts cannot be tackled easily.

Our issues with China are much graver on land than on the sea, where the Quad or the Indo-Pacific concept may not render us the support needed.

Modi’s masterstroke at the event was the manner in which he raised the Article 370 issue.

Britain lecturing India on respecting internationally recognised human rights shows the former’s disrespect for India’s democracy.

The external and internal dimensions of the revocation of Article 370 need to be analyzed in order to claim the J&K narrative.

Pakistan can ignore China’s conduct against Uighurs in Xinjiang. But it has already opposed India's decision.

As US is trying to negotiate a deal with Taliban and forsake Afghanistan’s elected government, India’s position is to keep the legitimate Afghan government intact.

The ball remains in Pakistan’s court, and its leaders may still score self-goals by persevering in their costly course in Jadhav’s case.

Not only did India not join the ‘Osaka Track’ on free data flow, we even boldly stood up against terror financing and economic offenders who are living in a safe haven.

Pakistan’s strategy — as in the past — is to deflect international pressure by taking token action against terrorist groups, and then go back to business once the heat wears off.