Tag Archives: India

Behold the Power of President Obama’s Personal Touch: India Tells World to Shove It on Carbon

India’s governing class is significantly more polite than ours, so let me translate this:

The UN Climate Summit and the Global Economy

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on what today’s summit in New York on climate change and global warming, China and India’s priorities, the accusations against the administration, and what it all means for the global economy.

Hillary Tours India

Real things are happening in the world, and the American press corps neither understands nor cares. Incredibly, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are involved, and the words “praetorian guard” appear nowhere in an accurate description. Instead, we’re seeing the maturation of the Obama Administration’s approach to foreign policy, and India is paying for it.

The Decline And Fall Of The . . . Oh, This Is Getting Old

As an 80s child, I remember well all of the dour, solemn, and alarmed predictions that eventually, Japan would overtake the United States in terms of economic power, and that this would signal a decline in America’s overall ability to influence world events.

Barack Obama’s India-Pakistan Mess

What Team Obama has given us thus far is not a foreign policy, it is a mess. It is not realism, but a resignation to the way the world wants to go, a rejection of the idea that America can influence it. It is a destruction of years of bipartisan effort to align democracies with common interests against failed states and rising tyrants, from which no good is coming.

The Failure Of The Multipolar World

As America’s retreat becomes more pronounced, the world will be a less-safe place. The nations of the world are not particularly inclined to spending scarce resources to ensure everyone else’s safety; that task usually falls on the global hegemon, who has the resources, will, and motivation to do the hard work that no one else will. We live in a time in which the hegemon will no longer take up that task.

Counterfeit Drug Policy in India

For the past decade India’s major pharmaceutical companies, alongside the public health community and police services, have attempted to drive forward a modern drug regulatory system. But due to lobbying from companies making suspect-quality drugs, the status quo remains.

- March 21, 2010 -

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