In the burgeoning confrontation between the U.S. and China, America’s greatest ally often is Beijing. Its ever more aggressive and even confrontational behavior, leavened with insulting “Wolf Warrior” diplomacy, has turned many nations against the People’s Republic of China. America should arrange a world tour by President Xi Jinping and his top confederates. They would do the seemingly impossible: drive the entire world toward Washington.
Unfortunately, U.S. officials often commit similar mistakes. Hubris, hypocrisy, and sanctimony have long bedeviled American diplomacy. During the Cold War “The Ugly American” was both a book title and description of U.S. officials acting abroad.
Pakistan today faces the geopolitical challenge of balancing between the US and China and choosing between Turkey and the Arab world, besides suffering from internal fault lines like the Pashtun, Baloch, and Sindhi movements amidst a highly radicalised society.
To discuss on the future of Pakistan and its impact on geopolitical dynamics, Usanas Foundation and Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) jointly organised an in-house webinar on “Pakistan’s Future: Geopolitical Dilemmas, Economic Woes and Troubling Fault Lines” by bringing together prominent experts on Pakistan from India as well as the world.
The speakers in the event were Deputy Director of Asia Program at Woodrow Wilson Centre, Michael Kugelman; Former Bureau Chief of Reuters and Pakistan expert, Myra MacDonald; geopolitical expert Sushant Sareen; Member of the National Security Advisory Board and VIF consultant, Tilak Devasher; and the Director of Vivekananda International Foundation, Arvind Gupta.
India-Pak ceasefire: Need to stick to red lines
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them friends-(Ibrahim Lincoln)
The guns blazing across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, since the terrorist attack on a military camp in the border town of Uri in 2016 were suddenly silenced on the intervening night of February 25. While this ceasefire is holding and it was now expected that it will graduate towards further movements, the latest U-turn by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on resumption of trade brought to the fore that a sustainable peace process was still far away.
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Imran Khanâs U-turn on trade with India puts Delhi in a spot â who to talk to in Pakistan
Will the Modi government be taken in by the sob stories that are going to be told on the back-channel and bite the bait, or will it stick to its guns?
Sushant Sareen 6 April, 2021 12:31 pm IST Text Size:
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The latest U-turn by Pakistanâs âselectedâ Prime Minister Imran Khan on his countryâs dealing with India is quite absurd even by the absurdities and U-turns that are emblematic of the feckless governance of the âhybridâ regime. A day after the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet announced that Pakistan would buy sugar and cotton from India, the cabinet made a U-turn and deferred the decision of the ECC. Subsequently, a meeting of a special cabinet subcommittee to discuss relations with India declared that there will be no trade with India until India reversed the constitutional re