Gokul Sahni
Geopolitics, geoeconomics, & Cold War(s) - India’s viewpoint | MA Modern War @WarStudies King’s; MSc IR @RSIS_NTU; MBA @UniofOxford | Own views.
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“If the Indian economy has an Achilles’ heel, it is the country’s manufacturing sector. Despite rapid economic growth since pro-market reforms began in 1991, the share of manufactu...
@FareedZakaria: “Xi.. in 2012.. determined that economic liberalization was actually transforming 🇨🇳 profoundly— in a bad way. He believed that the CCP was on the verge of becomi...
🧵Lots of great observations in this piece by @MohanCRaja: Why Non-Alignment Is Dead and Won’t Return https://t.co/IC0HEGJcei
India’s reticence about Taiwan is a signal to Beijing that (a) it is an independent actor that is not a blind follower of any Western ‘camp’ and (b) it does not see a point in ‘pok...
Is modern China really a ‘superpower’ like the Soviet Union was? I know it’s an imperfect comparison, but it seems hard to imagine the US behaving in the same way with the USSR dur...
🧵 I’m unconvinced that India can do much more to help Sri Lanka more than what it already has. Sri Lanka’s primary problem is that it is bankrupt – it doesn’t have enough US dollar...
“The leading nations of the developing world not only do not want to have to choose sides in a new cold war but also—much more important—do not feel that they have to.” What’s Rea...
Genuinely flummoxed why an Indian politician would think that articulations like ‘India is not described as a nation’ makes for good politics. State-level politicians may see some...
I don’t see this as being true. Sri Lanka’s current crisis is due to economic reasons & not political, societal or cultural ones. The country suspended external public debt repaym...