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Washington’s ability to conclude a security pact with Kabul may hinge on the results of the Afghan elections.
None of the contenders in India’s upcoming election provide much real reassurance that they can revive India’s long-run economic growth rate.
With counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan drawing to a close, the U.S. military is facing an abrupt transition.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s every word and deed of late seems designed to appeal to the Taliban leadership and its backers in Pakistan, and to fracture the partnership between Afghanistan and the American people.
As the world prepares to mark the anniversaries of the First and Second World War, the two great wars have acquired a peculiar political resonance in East Asia.
A slowing Indian economy, policy paralysis in the Indian government, and U.S. domestic distractions have combined to produce a drift in the bilateral relationship that is far more dangerous than the discord provoked by the recent diplomatic spat.
As the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan approaches, anxieties about the future of the country have increased.
It will take more than a new government to fix India’s struggling economy. The country needs broad reforms and institutional change to address fundamental flaws in its economic system.
India must recognize its past errors in dealing with Beijing and its refusal to prepare the nation to cope with the rise of China.
Last month, the Election Commission of Pakistan, manifesting its independence, declared Nawaz Sharif one of the country’s richest parliamentarians and revealed his assets.