Pranay K Shome

  Iran and the West are again at loggerheads - this time over the increasingly ‘provocative’ Iranian demands vis-a-vis the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) or the Iranian nuclear accord. The West particularly the...

  According to a Chinese proverb two tigers cannot stay on a single mountain. This seems to be absolutely fitting with the current Chinese foreign policy. China under Xi Jinping has shed its image of...

  Xi Jingping is the man of the moment and why won’t he be, the National People’s Congress(NPC) - the Chinese ‘parliament’ has recently handed him an unprecedented third term in office, effectively elevating him...

  Statecraft and politics is all about making dangerous and risky choices which promotes the betterment of the people and helps in bolstering the popular legitimacy of the state, but it ostensibly appears that Pakistan...

  The Chanakyan dictum of “there are no permanent friends and foes in politics” fits perfectly in the context of the recent bonhomie between China and Russia and their common approach on multiple foreign policy...

  There is a pattern in Chinese approach towards Taiwan-denying the legitimacy of the latter’s existence, reinforcing the principal of one China & the constant international propagation of the Chinese communist party’s message that Taiwan...

  The sudden and dramatic fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in a matter of days may have come as a rude shock to the world, but it came as most shocking to New Delhi,...

  The liberal order is once again in acute crisis, this time the focal point is Afghanistan. While a lot of articles, books and monographs have been written over the years, yet hardly any writer...

  It is coming back to where it all started two decades ago. The Taliban this time is in the driver’s seat, it is on a relentless northward march taking town after town, district after...

Fate seems to be playing a cruel role for the Middle Kingdom nation. At a time when China was harboring ambitions of dislodging the United States and becoming the new magnus frater in the...

  Democracy, it is often said is chaotic political system which tends to be cacophonic and inefficient, but over time especially since the 19th century onwards, democracy has proven to be the best form of...

  It has been almost one and half year since the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world upside down as we know it. Homo Sapiens continue to fall, economies struggle to recover and death and...

  China’s unusual outburst against Bangladesh regarding the Quadrilateral security grouping raised quite a few eyebrows in South Block. This was clearly unprecedented because the Quad countries had recently talked of Quad+ but Bangladesh clearly...