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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Which is the more beautiful word: “Tariffs” or “Trickle-down”?
For over 30 years America believed that globalisation and free-market economics would succeed in making America Great — through “trickle down” theory of wealth distribution at home and in converting China into a liberal-democratic manufacturing vendor-colony. As the Chinese guy in the video-clip rightly explains, it didn’t quite work out that way . “American 1-percenters” , the greedyContinue reading “Which is the more beautiful word: “Tariffs” or “Trickle-down”?”