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China’s crime is that it is almost No. 1

4 days ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Aakar Patel

The West has no memory of a world where it has not been the ruler and the rest of us ‘the ruled’. Hence Donald Trump’s tariff tantrumChina’s crime is that in the next few years, perhaps as soon as 2035, it will be the world’s largest economy. At that point, China’s GDP (gross domestic product) will be larger than that of the United States, if the average growth rates of both nations over the last 15 years hold.
The real beneficiary of Trump’s tariff war

1 week ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Ashok Swain

Trump’s reckless new trade policy will cause mayhem at home, and only strengthen the adversary he targetsOn 2 April, President Donald Trump shocked global markets and alarmed international partners by imposing sweeping tariffs on nearly all imports into the United States — a severe escalation of protectionism unseen in nearly a century.
India hasn’t joined the queue to beg Trump for mercy; nor has China

1 week ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Aakar Patel

Is it because of the 56-inch chhaati or just strong foreign policy? Who has the best bargaining chips, and what are they? Commerce ministries around the world are — according to Donald Trump — lining up to plead their case with the United States. Is India among them? Apparently, we are not. A headline last weekend quoted commerce minister Piyush Goyal saying: ‘We don’t negotiate at gunpoint.’ This is the right way of looking at it, and I agree with it.
What CPI(M)’s party congress signalled to its cadre and INDIA bloc

1 week ago | nationalheraldindia.com | SHIKHA MUKERJEE

The party congress laid a road map for its units in Kerala and West Bengal while clarifying its relationship with INDIA bloc and CongressA fair amount of agonising introspection of its recent performance and its declining and depleted state marked the 24thparty congress of the CPI(M), which concluded in Madurai.
US Supreme Court turns down Tahawwur Rana’s plea against extradition to India

2 weeks ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Lalit Jha

US Department of Justice will now reach out to Indian govt to start the process to extradite Rana, wanted for 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacksThe US Supreme Court has denied an application by Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, against his extradition to India, where he is wanted in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack case. “Application (24A852) denied by the court”, the US Supreme Court said on 7 April.
Rubio, Jaishankar discuss need for early conclusion of bilateral trade agreement

2 weeks ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Lalit Jha

This was the first call between the two diplomats after US President Donald Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on 3 AprilUS secretary of state Marco Rubio and India’s external affairs minister S. Jaishankar discussed reciprocal tariffs and other issues related to the bilateral relationship during a phone call on Monday, 7 April, his spokesperson said.
Donald Trump has no moral stature to broker peace - in Ukraine or in Gaza

2 weeks ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Ashok Swain

Peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are not a real-estate deal or a televised handshakeWhen Donald Trump returned to the White House for a second term, he came back with a mission: to end the Russia–Ukraine war quickly and claim credit as the world’s greatest dealmaker. Armed with bravado and a deeply rooted belief in transactional politics, Trump believed he could strong-arm adversaries into peace, just as he had once promised to do with North Korea, Iran and West Asia.
Why a trade war, any war, is hard to end

2 weeks ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Aakar Patel

Wars end when both sides have had enough. When their nations have suffered damage, and are unwilling to suffer more, writes Aakar PatelHow do trade wars end? The answer is that once begun, they are not easy to end. Most of the time, trade and diplomacy are conducted outside of the public view. This is not only because of secrecy but also the fact that the details are too boring to interest news debates.
The judge who upheld liberty in the line of fire

2 weeks ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Irshad Hussain |Mubashir Naik

What does the transfer of Justice Atul Sreedharan 26 days before he was to become the chief justice of J&K High Court tell us? "A fundamentalist Muslim cannot be equated with an extremist or a separatist,” observed Justice Atul Sreedharan of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and Ladakh High Court in July 2023, while hearing a case under the Public Safety Act (PSA) 1978, against a Muslim man accused by the police of being a “hardcore fundamentalist”.
India’s language fault line

3 weeks ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Ashok Swain

The idea of a homogenised linguistic identity is fundamentally incompatible with India’s richly diverse heritageIndia’s enduring language conflict has re-emerged as a pressing threat to national unity and economic equity. The renewed push to impose Hindi as a dominant language by the BJP-led government in Delhi has sparked fierce resistance, particularly from Tamil Nadu.