by M.K.Sudarshan August 15, 2026 : Chennai, India This Op-Ed is dedicated to India on its Independence Day, 15 August 2026. America and India possess immense “soft power”, but they deploy it toward different ends. America has often used cultural attraction, political ideals, and diplomacy to legitimise global leadership and sustain a hegemonic order. India,Continue reading “INDIA INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECIAL: The Dynamic Use of “Soft Power”: How America and India, in Their Own Ways, Have Enlarged Joseph Nye’s Theory”
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The Semantics of Slaughter: Why Our Threats Are “Statecraft” and Theirs Are “Terror”
An unvarnished analysis of global double standards: why American military ultimatums are sanitized as statecraft while Iranian slogans are branded as terror.
One nation chants slogans. The other systematically bombs sovereign states back to the “Stone Age.” Why does the global community brand symbolic rhetoric as terrorism while treating actual destruction as statecraft?My latest Op-Ed pulls back the curtain on semantic imperialism: [Link]
India-China Foreign Policy: “Strategic Restraint” is really “Strategic Dithering”.
https://www.firstpost.com/india/why-india-should-adopt-chinas-predatory-economic-tactics-in-neighbourhood-10292141.html Above article is an excellent analysis of Indian Foreign policy issue above written by Sri Sathia Moorthy. I couldn’t agree more with his trenchant views. For China, investments in IOR islands has immense geo-strategic value: it ensures China’s presence in the Indian Ocean choke-point of the Malay Straits over which the QUAD and AUKUSContinue reading “India-China Foreign Policy: “Strategic Restraint” is really “Strategic Dithering”.”