In his inaugural speech at the second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing today, Chinese President Xi Jinping sought to address fears that his pet project would benefit only China and lay a debt trap for smaller, developing nations that have come on board. Pitching it as a symbiotic venture guided by a consultative approach, he also spoke about lowering trade tariffs and China’s intent to import more so that other countries benefit as well. SNI’s Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale gets us more from the Chinese capital. #India #China #BRI
Disparagement humor is a built and financed weapon. It boxes a people with a label, hardens the label into stigma, and makes the sacred laughable until a civilization forgets why it was worth saving. Rome never learned this lesson. However, India needs to. Ask - Who is paying for the laughter?
India's exam crisis is real. NEET leaked. JEE was hacked. CBSE's answer sheets were blurred. But the movement built on student anger arrived too organized, scaled too fast, and demands regime change — not reform. A sixty-year-old doctrine explains exactly what is happening.
The post-Cold War order is fading, but the next world order has yet to emerge. As America, China, Europe, and Russia reposition for an uncertain future, old assumptions are collapsing. This is the story of borrowed power, strategic decline, rising rivals, and a world caught between eras.
For eighty years, the cross and the agency have traveled together. Missionaries mapped territories, pacified populations, and laundered political operations as charity. When India asks where was the money used, Washington sends a Secretary of State to make the question stop.
