Trump cuts the clutter in US National Security Strategy
By P.K. Balachandran/Counterpoint Colombo, December 22 – US President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy 2025, released by the White House last month, gives the overall strategic framework as well as guidelines for specific areas of concern. Trump states that “strategy” begins from an accurate assessment...
UNSC was a major battle ground for Bangladesh’s liberation
Bangladesh’s war of independence was fought on the ground, in the diplomatic arena across world capitals, and in the UN Security Council, with all three venues seeing intense action.
Donald Trump’s War and Peace
By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham Colombo, December 14 – It is unavoidable that the title of this article should remind its readers of the famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace”. It is a historical fiction that follows the lives of five Russian aristocratic families...
What the new US National Security Strategy means for Sri Lanka
By P M Amza/Colombo Telegraph Colombo, December 14 – The release of the new United States National Security Strategy (NSS) marks a decisive shift in how Washington intends to navigate an increasingly fragmented world. For decades, US strategies—whether Republican or Democratic—tended to stress global leadership,...
Trump downgrades India and drops Pakistan in his 2025 NSS
By P. K. Balachandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, December 14- US President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) for 2025 signals a decline in the importance of India as compared with the NSS he presented in 2017 during his first term. In 2017, Pakistan was severely castigated...
Income inequality is a factor in climate change says World Inequality Lab
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, December 13- The various manifestations of climate change like nature’s fury and the economic and social disruptions it causes, are linked to inequalities both in the national and global social order, says the 2026 report of the World Inequality Lab (WIL). The...
Trump’s National Security Strategy Sidesteps India
By P.K.Balachandran/The Citizen Colombo, December 10 – US President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) for the year 2025 signals a decline in the importance of India as compared with the NSS he presented in 2017 during his first term. In 2017, Pakistan was severely...
Europe’s animosity brings Putin closer to India
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, December 5 (The Citizen) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India to attend the 23 rd. Indo-Russian summit on December 6 is expected to result in agreements for wide-ranging military and civilian technology sharing in all domains including land, air, sea,...
US and China will benefit from cooperation,not conflict
By Christopher M. Schroeder/Subtrack I went to China last month for the first time in six years. I was there at the invitation of a fascinating group that includes CEOs from China and America to meet in Beijing. But this was also an excuse to...
Trump to ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘all third world’ countries
US President Donald Trump widens crackdown on immigrants
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