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1 month ago | 
ndtv.com | Madhavan Narayanan |Dinesh Narayanan |Mahesh Sachdev |Nishtha Gautam
Opinion | So, Why Has Apple Stuck To Its Chennai Plan Despite Trump's 'Warning'? Tim Cook is likely bothered more about what shareholders and analysts think of the way he manages his company's huge cash pile - estimated at well over $300 billion - than an oddball statement from Trump about moving all production to America.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
ndtv.com | Swapan Dasgupta |Dinesh Narayanan |Mahesh Sachdev |Nishtha Gautam
Opinion | After 2024, Indian Pollsters Must Learn Something About Voters This Year My lessons from 2024: discount (but don't totally disregard) the pollsters, and keep a sharp eye on politics on the ground. Respect the judgment of voters. In most cases, their instincts aren't way off the mark.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | Mahesh Sachdev
Deep-rooted structural factors make Syria prone to sudden convulsions, such as the recent emergence of Hai'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, in English Syria Liberation Organisation). Its 23 million population has a Sunni majority with a significant presence of Shias, Druze and Syrian Christians. Being an ethnic Kaleidoscope has made it vulnerable to sectarian tensions and foreign sponsors' manipulation causing instability since the Crusades in the medieval era.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Mahesh Sachdev
On November 16-17, 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and second largest economy. Though on his first visit to that country, he may still find it familiar: from Airtel to Bajaj, Bollywood to Cipla and TVS to Tata, India is ubiquitous in Nigeria.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | Mahesh Sachdev
The results of the US elections held last week have produced both relief and shock in equal measure. The world at large and the Americans in particular are relieved that even if the outcome was largely unexpected, it was unambiguous, decisive and uncontested. This belied many foreboding predictions. There was a clear swing towards the hard right, with the Republican Party making major gains. Donald Trump, its candidate, defied all odds to win the Presidency.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
ndtv.com | Mahesh Sachdev
At the start of the countdown to the last quarter of Biden's Presidency, it may seem early to assess the global legacy of his presidency. After all, the relentless momentum of his presidency is going to be unsparing till January 20, 2025. Yet, he has already been a lame-duck president for the past quarter after opting out of the re-run, and a vote on his successor has been scheduled for a fortnight.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Mahesh Sachdev
Despite pageantry, high-level participation and big-ticket announcements, the 9th edition of the Forum on China- Africa Cooperation ( FOCAC ) in Beijing that took place on Sept 4-6 was marked by incrementalism. Slowing Chinese economy has curbed its appetite for African commodities, the main driver of the ties.Africa's lower export revenues have exacerbated the economic asymmetry. For instance, till 2013, the China-Africa trade was nearly in balance.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Mahesh Sachdev
First, a trick question: Where in West Asia-North Africa (WANA) in 2023 did a no-holds-barred conflict morph into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis? The correct answer is not Gaza, but Sudan. The conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Force (RSF) led by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemayti (“My Protector”) has devastated Sudan.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Mahesh Sachdev
Over eight decades of eventful ties between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have had their ups and downs — from the oil embargo of 1973 to the Jamal Khashoggi assassination in 2018. However, two images of this relationship remain iconic: the first is of the meeting between the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the King of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz Al-Saud on Valentine’s Day 1945 aboard a U.S. cruiser beginning seven decades of an unbroken bilateral bromance.
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May 22, 2024 | 
thehindu.com | Mahesh Sachdev
Having met each other over 40 times in the past 11 years, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are justified in calling each other “old friend”. Yet, their Summit in Beijing (May 16-17, 2024), ostensibly to mark the 75th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations, stands out, arguably, as among their most consequential meetings. Given their geostrategic and geoeconomic hefts, their “no-limit” bromance is not just a bilateral matter.
