Deepak Vohra

Beyond Justin Trudeau and his ‘credible allegations’

One consequence of Justin Trudeau’s immaturity (produced by the compulsions of domestic political survival) is that Bharat has intensified its severe crackdown on Khalistani...

India in the world: Then and now

Narendra Modi has made foreign policy a peoples’ movement, ajan andolan, like Swachh Bharat and Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. This is a personal story, and...

India is on a roll

New Delhi: Foreign Direct Investment this year will cross USD 100 bn. Remittances from NRIs have exceeded USD 100 bn for the first time ever....

Meanwhile, it’s a muddle in Africa

Since the eruption of the conflict, the Ethiopian government (with several Chinese advisors) has tried to maintain total narrative control and blacked out the...

Meanwhile, it’s a muddle in Africa

Since the eruption of the conflict, the Ethiopian government (with several Chinese advisors) has tried to maintain total narrative control and blacked out the...

Meanwhile, it’s a muddle in Africa

Since the eruption of the conflict, the Ethiopian government (with several Chinese advisors) has tried to maintain total narrative control and blacked out the...

China targets the Islamic faith

China has destroyed mosques, burnt Qurans, forbidden fasting during Ramzan, and outlawed halal diets. China is committing crimes against humanity in its treatment of...

China targets the Islamic faith

China has destroyed mosques, burnt Qurans, forbidden fasting during Ramzan, and outlawed halal diets. China is committing crimes against humanity in its treatment of...

China targets the Islamic faith

China has destroyed mosques, burnt Qurans, forbidden fasting during Ramzan, and outlawed halal diets. China is committing crimes against humanity in its treatment of...

UN at 76: A relic that no one takes seriously

There has been no fundamental change in the way the UN does business since its establishment. We must live with it till it either...

India-us cooperation must for a better world

India has given the world a favourable balance of power for a free and open Indo-Pacific. India’s capability has a reassuring effect on other...

India-us cooperation must for a better world

India has given the world a favourable balance of power for a free and open Indo-Pacific. India’s capability has a reassuring effect on other...

India-us cooperation must for a better world

India has given the world a favourable balance of power for a free and open Indo-Pacific. India’s capability has a reassuring effect on other...

Conflict brews over the Nile

Sudan and Egypt are extremely wary of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam which, they believe, will limit their access to the life-giving waters of...

Conflict brews over the Nile

Sudan and Egypt are extremely wary of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam which, they believe, will limit their access to the life-giving waters of...

Conflict brews over the Nile

Sudan and Egypt are extremely wary of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam which, they believe, will limit their access to the life-giving waters of...

US or China? The Hobson’s choice

China wants to be a global leader, but leadership has to be accepted. China is unable to transmit global values that other nations accept...

US or China? The Hobson’s choice

China wants to be a global leader, but leadership has to be accepted. China is unable to transmit global values that other nations accept...

US or China? The Hobson’s choice

China wants to be a global leader, but leadership has to be accepted. China is unable to transmit global values that other nations accept...

The US-China marriage of inconvenience is over

Regrettably, the intelligentsia of the ‘free world’ rationalized China’s ruthlessness as unavoidable in any interaction between liberal, open, and pluralistic polities and totalitarian ones. New...

Time for Taiwan to come in from the cold

While China claims that Taiwan is a region of China (‘One China’), Taiwan rightly says it is a separate independent country, with its own...

Time for Taiwan to come in from the cold

While China claims that Taiwan is a region of China (‘One China’), Taiwan rightly says it is a separate independent country, with its own...

Time for Taiwan to come in from the cold

While China claims that Taiwan is a region of China (‘One China’), Taiwan rightly says it is a separate independent country, with its own...

Time for Taiwan to come in from the cold

While China claims that Taiwan is a region of China (‘One China’), Taiwan rightly says it is a separate independent country, with its own...

When science and ethics are trumped by ambition, avarice

The virus debate saw China’s massive efforts at obfuscation. The CPC’s propaganda department, like almost all others, is not very smart. Showing off can...

US-Russia-China triangle dance exposes a marriage of inconvenience

The biggest gainer from the collapse of the USSR was not the West, but China. New Delhi: No one trusts China. Talking to his Chinese...

Chinese Communist Party’s long march of lies

President Xi’s legitimacy is built on narrative control. The US President famously said in February 2021 that his Chinese counterpart did not have a democratic...

Chinese Communist Party’s long march of lies

President Xi’s legitimacy is built on narrative control. The US President famously said in February 2021 that his Chinese counterpart did not have a democratic...

Chinese Communist Party’s long march of lies

President Xi’s legitimacy is built on narrative control. The US President famously said in February 2021 that his Chinese counterpart did not have a democratic...

Whom the gods would destroy they first deprive of reason, ask Xi Jinping

No one understands why China thinks it can antagonize the US, Europe, Japan, ASEAN and India and many others all at the same time...

Whom the gods would destroy they first deprive of reason, ask Xi Jinping

No one understands why China thinks it can antagonize the US, Europe, Japan, ASEAN and India and many others all at the same time...

Whom the gods would destroy they first deprive of reason, ask Xi Jinping

No one understands why China thinks it can antagonize the US, Europe, Japan, ASEAN and India and many others all at the same time...

Lessons we learnt from the Chinese virus

International cooperation during the pandemic has brought out the best and the worst in globalization. Ten countries are reported to have cornered three-quarters of...

Lessons we learnt from the Chinese virus

International cooperation during the pandemic has brought out the best and the worst in globalization. Ten countries are reported to have cornered three-quarters of...

Lessons we learnt from the Chinese virus

International cooperation during the pandemic has brought out the best and the worst in globalization. Ten countries are reported to have cornered three-quarters of...

It isn’tyet time to write obituary of India-Russia ties

The Quad is a major consideration for Russia and China. How will India’s involvement in the Quad and the promotion of the Indo-Pacific strategy...

It isn’t yet time to write obituary of India-Russia ties

The Quad is a major consideration for Russia and China. How will India’s involvement in the Quad and the promotion of the Indo-Pacific strategy...

It isn’t yet time to write obituary of India-Russia ties

The Quad is a major consideration for Russia and China. How will India’s involvement in the Quad and the promotion of the Indo-Pacific strategy...

It isn’t yet time to write obituary of India-Russia ties

The Quad is a major consideration for Russia and China. How will India’s involvement in the Quad and the promotion of the Indo-Pacific strategy...

Why is Boris Johnson coming to India?

England sells asylum in the name of democratic legal processes to all sorts of money-laundering thugs whom we seek. Our bilateral political relations have...

Pakistan: What ails this sad nation?

A recent analytical report suggests that Financial Action Task Force’s grey-listing over the last few years may have caused real GDP losses to Pakistan...

The post virus BRI: Deader than a Dodo?

Frightened by China’s predatory tactics, countries like Bangladesh, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Sierra Leone decided to cancel or downsize some of their Belt and...

Multiple-whammy: China’s looming crises

Since 1949, China has lost one fifth of its arable land to urbanisation and industrialisation and currently only about 10-15% of the land is...

Quad is making China quadriplegic

The pandemic has stoked Chinese aggression, but it has provided others with opportunities to cooperate in maritime security, cyber-security, data flows, quality infrastructure and...

China launches cyber warfare against India

A more comprehensive and objective assessment of China’s cyber power is in urgent need. As Joseph Nye argued, exaggerated fears about growing Chinese power...

China’s many wars

In January 2021, Xi asks his troops to be ready to ‘act at any second’. China is clearly worried. New Delhi: Apart from the Korean...

Disengagement at the LAC: China gives up its bluster

International responses to China have gone through three phases in last 30 years; envy and admiration (wish we could do it too), exhilaration (cheap...

Pak’s quest for a mirage damns its present

With China increasingly wary of sinking money in a bottomless hole, a floundering Pakistan should be on suicide watch. What ails Pakistan? No one cares about...

Pak’s quest for a mirage damns its present

With China increasingly wary of sinking money in a bottomless hole, a floundering Pakistan should be on suicide watch. What ails Pakistan? No one cares about...

Pak’s quest for a mirage damns its present

With China increasingly wary of sinking money in a bottomless hole, a floundering Pakistan should be on suicide watch. What ails Pakistan? No one cares about...

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