India & The New World

  Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the EU-Canada Summit in Brussels on 23 June, 2025 Canada’s Union with Europe Deepak Razdan Monday, 30 June, 2025 Canada is re-establishing its identity, engaging with all parts of the world afresh, signing agreements and entering relationship treaties with major economies across continents. Forced by US President Donald Trump’s rejection of a historic US-Canada neighbourly relationship, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting different countries, attending Summits to redefine Canada’s economic and security ties. In Mr Carney’s latest achievement, Canada and the European Union have concluded a Security and Defence Partnership and launched cooperation initiatives in industrial policy and digital trade at a bilateral summit at Brussels on 23 June. Although Mr Carney said “Canada’s new government has a mandate to diversify and strengthen inte...

           European Council Summit at Brussels on 27                   June, 2025 Wars for Money & Supremacy Deepak Razdan Saturday, 28 June, 2025 Multilateralism received a big blow from the US Liberation Day tariffs and created a New World with no definite rules. Still many multi-nation groupings exist and proclaim their achievements in diverse fields. The European Council, the foreign policy and security group of the 27-nation European Union, met on 26 June at Brussels and discussed geo-economic challenges along with Ukraine and Middle East developments. This meeting followed a series of key international Summits, the G7 Summit on 15-17 June in Canada, the EU-Canada Summit in Brussels on 23 June and the NATO Summit on 24-26 June at The Hague. The 46th ASEAN Summit and ASEAN-non ASEAN nations Summits had preceded in Kuala Lumpur on 26-27 May. The European Council had on its agenda European defence and ...

  President of the European Council Antonio Costa, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the 2025 NATO Summit at The Hague on 24 June, 2025   War or Peace, Strength is Key Deepak Razdan Tuesday, 24 June, 2025 Peace through strength. The New World is writing a new set of rules for its future. But it still believes in some old conventions while dealing with threat perceptions about national security. The United States, the New World leader, last weekend employed the doctrine of peace through strength to drop bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s three suspected nuclear bomb making sites. The objective was “destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity, and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's No. 1 state sponsor of terror,” President Donald Trump said in his address to the nation on 21 June, 2025. The US wants, the President said, "Iran, the bully of the Middle E...

  Wars Are Forever Deepak Razdan Friday, 20 June, 2025 The New World emerged out of America’s new tariff regime. Nations were expected not to think multilaterally. They were to now think of their own interests first, and then negotiate with the US or other nations. It was a financial transformation forced on the world by the US. It came suddenly but it changed the scenario completely. The New World has not however given up some of the old world ways. It still thinks of wars, and quick wars, to settle issues. As a result, instead of trade deals, the world is today witnessing frequent war deals. Tariff negotiations are forgotten. There are stories about drones and missiles falling over hospitals and nuclear facilities, and about how they destroy lives and property built over years. First, it was the Russia-Ukraine War. Then came the Palestine-Israel confrontation. As US President Donald Trump made efforts to bring peace and facilitate deals, the Israel-Iran war started ...

    G7 Working Session, Kananaskis, Alberta,           Canada 17 June, 2025 Coming Wars in New World Known Before Deepak Razdan Tuesday, 17 June, 2025 Uncertainty is the most certain feature of the New World. Much of the world trade is stalled today because no nation is certain of the tariffs that are applied. Friends appear foes and foes are wooed with respect. Pacts are forgotten or don’t matter. But it is not so with wars or attacks with deadly missiles. Wars can be predicted in the world today, unlike the Ukraine-Russia war or the Hamas-Israel war which started in the past. Like the US tariffs war started on 2nd April, on a date known before, war dates too can be guessed in advance. Israel attacked Iran with missiles as per a schedule -- at the end of a 60-day ultimatum US President Donald Trump gave to Iran to conclude a deal about its nuclear capabilities. Iran failed to respond within the stipulated period, and the Israel at...

          International Labour Organisation Director-                 General Mr Gilbert F Houngbo Peace Will Last With Social Justice Only Deepak Razdan Friday, 13 June, 2025 Unlike the twentieth century when democracies thrived by combining political equity with economic inclusivity, the 21st century has seen in its past few decades a marked erosion of this balance. The result is decent jobs are not available sufficient in numbers, inequality has soared, labour income has stagnated, the cost of living has gone up, the debt burden has strangled developing economies, and trust in institutions has plummeted. These disturbing findings are mentioned in International Labour Organisation (ILO) Director General’s Report to the 113th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC), held in Geneva from 2 to 13 June. Mr Gilbert F Houngbo, who made history in 2022 by becoming the first African to be elected the...

G7: Mark Carney’s Moment of History Deepak Razdan Tuesday, 10 June, 2025 Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney will have a moment of history when the next G7 Leaders Summit takes place in Kananaskis under Canada’s Presidency in the country’s Alberta State from 15 to 17 June. The G7 leaders meet each year at a Summit to discuss pressing issues and build consensus on coordinated actions. This is the seventh time that Canada has held the Presidency of the G7. The coming Summit is taking place when the world faces such tricky issues as it has not encountered since the end of World War II in 1945. As the Chair, Canada will set the agenda and speak on behalf of the G7. The G7 comprises France, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, besides the European Union (EU) which attends the G7 Summits but does not host them like the individual members. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi will be a special invitee at the Summit. Prime Minister Carney extended an in...