Recent developments—such as the pandemic’s impact, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, its nuclear submarine deal with Australia and the release of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou—once again raise the question of whether the US remains the world’s sole superpower with its hegemony unchallenged.

Opinion | On the Margin: Is US past its unipolar moment?

In the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, as the world’s major countries engage the Taliban regime in Kabul, India appears to have shot itself in the foot and retired hurt into a sulk.

Opinion | On the Margin: India’s Afghan missteps

I have met Vijay Gokhale, who was India’s ambassador to China and Foreign Secretary, three times. The first occasion was in Beijing when he was posted there. The other two were in New Delhi, at official receptions, when he was Foreign Secretary.

ON THE MARGIN: Ex-FS Gokhale’s book may earn little kudos

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Tibet from July 21-23 is replete with significance and should be read right for its strategic implications by those entrusted with India’s external affairs, national security and defence.

Opinion | On The Margin: Xi throws a challenge from Tibet

For 30 years Nepal has endured political instability at the expense of economic development. With Nepal’s supreme court ejecting Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli from office, reinstating the dissolved parliament and ordering appointment of Nepali Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba as the prime minister, the instability has taken a new twist.

Opinion | On The Margin: New twist, old turn in Nepal

This is that time of the year when the country’s politicians, political commentators and the media look back upon the Emergency that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had declared on June 25, 1975.

ON THE MARGIN: Emergency, Modi’s India & the world

China is so much in the news for the wrong reasons, such as its military stand-off with India or glossing over the origin of coronavirus, that the ruling Communist Party’s announcement on May 31 allowing couples to have three children has not drawn the attention it deserves for its implications.

ON THE MARGIN: China struggling to make more babies

Nineteen months after coronavirus began stalking the globe to claim at least 3.5 million human lives, the world has no clue to the origin of this devastating pathogen.

ON THE MARGIN: Biden revives hunt for COVID-19 origins

In destabilising his own ministry which had assumed office in February 2018, K P Sharma Oli, who became Prime Minister for a third time on May 13, has done immeasurable damage to Nepal’s polity, governance and economic development.

ON THE MARGIN: New Nepal returns to its old ways 

India has no refugee policy. It is not a signatory to the UN’s 1951 Refugee Convention, which defines a refugee. Now, India avowedly wants to be a refuge for persecuted Hindus in the region and professedly for that purpose has enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

India: No more refuge for the persecuted

The G7 is, perhaps, the world’s most important grouping when it comes to economic management and development. It has been so for the last 44 years. These annual summits were begun to thrash out issues of economic importance.

WION Edit: India at G7 Summit - 'Fighting Inequality'

US President Donald Trump sermonising to Russia on the latter’s nuclear armoury would be laughable were it not for the seriousness of the situation. Between them, these two powers hold over 90 per cent of all nuclear weapons in the world.

WION Edit: Eliminate nuclear weapons

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