A power outage in New York, but it couldn’t stop the Millennial Choirs and Orchestras, creating a makeshift stage right outside Carnegie Hall.
#nycblackout
India's been claiming it shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in February. But a U.S. count of F-16 jets in Pakistan suggests New Delhi had it wrong. An exclusive report from
@laraseligman
Disturbing that an official Indian police account, verified by
@Twitter
, is trying to silence
@RanaAyyub
—a journalist, a citizen—from expressing her views.
Some personal news:
I'm starting a new job as Managing Editor of
@ForeignPolicy
next week. Excited to join a great team. This is a fascinating time to be covering international relations.
And ... thanks to the awesome folks
@CNN
and
@CNNI
for 11+ wonderful years!
Some personal news, as they say.
It’s a real privilege to get to work with a terrific, inspiring group of journalists and contributors from around the world
@ForeignPolicy
, and I look forward to building on our work together.
If you want to trace how India is becoming dangerously illiberal under Modi, read this excellent piece in the New Yorker. And while parts of the media are making things worse, kudos to local journalists like
@RanaAyyub
for their bravery and defiance.
Everyone should read
@Iyengarish
's excellent profile of India's foreign minister in
@ForeignPolicy
Modi’s Messenger to the World: How the diplomat-turned-politician S. Jaishankar became the chief executor of India’s assertive foreign policy.
Indian journalist
@RanaAyyub
has received death threats for her work - as have several other prominent reporters. But, she argues, prominence may provide a sort of protection; many, many others are not so fortunate.
cc:
@BDUTT
@Nidhi
@ravishndtv
Conventional wisdom seems to be that the West is running out of time when it comes to aiding Ukraine against Russia. Winter is coming; gas will get pricier. But Fiona Hill tells
@ForeignPolicy
that the clock is ticking for Putin, too.
Read/watch:
This is a fascinating piece, and it has a bit of everything: China's surveillance state, One Belt One Road, Beijing's push to improve its tech, and countries in Africa all too willing to jump on board—no matter the impact on human rights.
The stunning fall of Kabul has caught top Biden administration officials almost completely by surprise. Current and former U.S. officials, report
@RobbieGramer
and
@ak_mack
, describe the mood inside the State Department as despondent and demoralized.
"Women have tried due process and lost hope," writes
@BDUTT
about India's overdue
#MeToo
wave this week. "Social media has provided a platform to women that Indian courts have failed to offer." An important piece to read:
This
#MLKDay
I'm reminded of a chat I had with
@BerniceKing
, who so eloquently explained how to ensure racial justice in the United States on FP's Global Reboot. She also explained the impact
#MLK
and her mother
#CorettaScottKing
had on her.
As
#Davos2019
kicks off, a timely essay from
@FareedZakaria
in the latest issue of
@ForeignPolicy
. "In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, economics has enjoyed a kind of intellectual hegemony ... that hegemony is now over."
Excited to announce that one of my favorite S. Asia experts,
@TheWilsonCenter
's
@MichaelKugelman
, is going to relaunch
@ForeignPolicy
’s weekly South Asia Brief newsletter starting tomorrow.
Sign up on the link below to get his first dispatch on Thursday!
Canadian Foreign Minister
@cafreeland
doesn't name
@realdonaldtrump
, but the implication is clear in FP speech:
“Facts matter. Truth matters. Competence and honesty among elected leaders and in our public service matter."
Fiery
@bdutt
piece
"The suggestion that the sari is about Hindu identity is rubbish; if anything, the sari has an appeal across the South Asian subcontinent. The two female powerhouses of Muslim-majority Bangladesh are almost always draped in one."
"It is unlikely that Africa will NOT reach 2.2 billion to 2.5 billion inhabitants by 2050," writes
@adam_tooze
as he weighs a surprisingly under-covered trend re: demographics in the 21st century.
Everyone should read Hélène
@Landemore
ahead of Biden's big summit this week. Modern democracies don't give the people real power, she argues in
@ForeignPolicy
, and that's why democracy as a concept needs to be completely reimagined. Here's how:
This is a brave and honest
#MeToo
essay by
@iratrivedi
, where she reflects how she "thought that this was the cabal that I was a part of and occasionally bearing their discomfiting behaviour was the price that I pay for their acquaintance."
@IndiaMeToo
India is becoming more confident but also less liberal. It is prioritizing religion (Hinduism) in a way that Nehru, its first prime minister, feared. Modi has a different idea of India. The question is, how much of this change is supply versus demand?
After more than eight years in power, how exactly is India changing under Modi? Read historian
@Ram_Guha
's masterful analysis in
@ForeignPolicy
of how Modi's cult of personality will have deeper consequences than similar ones in other parts of the world.
This is a fascinating story about tech and Ireland's abortion referendum. How social media & bots can disrupt democratic discourse, and how that can be combated, in
@foreignpolicy
Folks: A personal note/thread, of sorts.
(1/n)
My book
#IndiaConnected
launches in the United States today!
You can buy it anywhere books are sold or
@Amazon
here:
Border clashes with China have reawakened New Delhi’s interest in deeper defense ties with the United States, and Washington is hoping to deliver the goods.
By
@RobbieGramer
&
@JackDetsch
How did a private Chinese firm come to dominate the world’s most important emerging technology? A great long read on Huawei by
@EliasGroll
and
@KFJ_FP
in
@foreignpolicy
We’re calling
@foreignpolicy
’s summer print mag the “Back to the Future” issue.
Because everything old seems new again.
War. Nuclear fears. ‘70s inflation. Non-alignment. A food crisis.
What can we learn from history?
(1/8)
@ForeignPolicy
's Spring magazine just dropped. This one’s all about India, which heads to the polls next week.
From our perspective at FP, India is exhibit A when it comes to rising middle powers looking to take advantage of an evolving global order.
Great to sit down with
@FareedZakaria
on
@CNN
and talk about my new book
@india_connected
, smartphones, and the impact of technology in the developing world.
"Vaccine nationalism is not just morally indefensible," writes
@DrTedros
in
@ForeignPolicy
. "It is epidemiologically self-defeating and clinically counterproductive."
It won't be that easy to choke Iran's oil exports: India and China are likely to keep buying. Here's
@KFJ_FP
with the energy fallout from the US withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.
@ForeignPolicy
U.S. President Joe Biden plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan before Sept. 11 - good context and reporting from
@JackDetsch
and
@RobbieGramer
here:
Modi’s back for five more years. So much for the theory that his 2014 victory was an anomaly. It seems a new generation of Indians see themselves—and their aspirations—embodied in Modi. My piece in
@ForeignPolicy
As the world digests a below-expectations performance from India's BJP, Devesh Kapur makes an interesting point in
@ForeignPolicy
: Modi and the BJP have peaked. Coalition politics was the norm in India since the 1980s, and we're returning to that era.
Excited to announce that
@Lili_Pike
is joining
@ForeignPolicy
as a staff writer this week. She’s just back from a stint in Beijing improving her already formidable Mandarin. She’s going to report on U.S.-China news, among other things, from her perch in DC. Follow her!
"Another world war is unlikely in the near future, but we should expect more conflict, more violence, and more defeats for an isolated United States," predicts
@JeremiSuri
. Agree? Read more
@ForeignPolicy
:
Really excited to welcome the brilliant
@hofrench
to
@ForeignPolicy
. In his first column for us, he explains the important global implications of censorship. Read him now, and read him often.
There’s a lot of news out there today, but make some time for this longer read by
@michaelphirsh
, who reveals how Trump returned from bankruptcy in the 90s with the help of foreign money—a thread that could prove very important in the coming months.
Thanks to
@EdwardGLuce
for a kind mention of
@ForeignPolicy
's latest print issue, which you can read here:
I have long said that Ed wrote one of the best books on India, "In Spite of the Gods", which remains essential reading all these years later.
Stunning scenes at JNU, one of India’s most prestigious universities, in New Delhi. A masked mob has attacked students and teachers, even throwing acid at protestors. This is a shameful day for India’s police — and for democracy.
Two years after a deadly border clash with China, New Delhi's policy toward Beijing is "characterized by caution, confusion, and contradiction" writes
@SushantSin
in
@ForeignPolicy
If you want to understand why India's election results turned out as they did, and what it means for India and the world going forward, do read/watch/listen here to
@MilanV
and
@AiyarYamini
in
@ForeignPolicy
China will soon double its # of aircraft carriers from one to a grand total of two. The U.S. has 20. [also: bonus points to anyone who knew that Thailand had one before China did.]
Read:
To understand a bit more about the work behind this year's Nobel prize winners in economics, read this piece by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in
@ForeignPolicy
from 2011, where they describe how poverty is far more complicated than we imagine:
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
#NobelPrize
How can the world build forward better? What's the best way to reduce inequality after the pandemic? For the latest episode of Global Reboot, I spoke with two of the world's smartest economists:
@MazzucatoM
and Raghuram Rajan.
Listen in:
Sunday's episode of
@FareedZakaria
GPS on
@CNN
looked at India's mobile revolution, and mentioned my forthcoming book "India Connected" - out later this year (September in India, and October in the US/UK and elsewhere.) Thanks for the shout out!
READ this bracing essay by
@GhoshAmitav
, one of FP's 100 Global Thinkers this year. He takes us hundreds of years into the past, to the Little Ice Age, to remind us that "the sensitivity of human societies to climatic factors may exceed all expectations."
A calm and very interesting take:
The allegations of sexual misconduct against
@AzizAnsari
amount to "3,000 words of revenge porn,"
@CaitlinPacific
argues
You should read
@foreignpolicy
to get smart on India ahead of its elections. But you should also read more.
@mukulkesavan
has a great selection of books, and describes them as only he can.
My review of
@RaviReports
's forthcoming book: 'India Connected: 'How the Smartphone is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy'. A must-read for everyone who is interested in contemporary India.
India's Congress Party
@INCIndia
lags behind the ruling
@BJP4India
on fundraising. With elections coming up, Priyanka Gandhi can narrow the gap, writes
@MilanV
Listen to Global Reboot, FP's new podcast on the world after the pandemic. Our first episode is a conversation with
@ClimateEnvoy
@JohnKerry
, who has a surprisingly hopeful message for how to tackle climate change.
Podcast:
@ClimateEnvoy
John Kerry joins
@RaviReports
for our first episode of Foreign Policy’s newest podcast, "Global Reboot."
Listen as they discuss how the Biden administration is addressing climate change. In partnership with
@DohaForum
:
Venezuela helped found OPEC, a cartel of oil exporters. How did it go from there — with arguably the world's greatest oil reserves — to becoming an oil importer? Read this excellent, blow-by-blow account of decades of bad policy in Caracas, by
@KFJ_FP
Facial recognition scans, Wi-Fi sniffers, and "re-education centers" ... this piece about China's surveillance system for Muslim Uighurs is shocking, and a must-read.
OK, I'm going to try Clubhouse today at 5pmEDT, to talk shop about U.S.-China relations, Biden, trade/climate/tech and more, with
@gzeromedia
's
@ianbremmer
.
Join in!
LINK:
@joinClubhouse
What will war look like in the future?
@ForeignPolicy
's latest print issue has some really smart thinking on this. Take a look at the essays on offer:
Two U.N. workers were murdered in Congo. Who's responsible? It's a murky diplomatic whodunnit, and
@columlynch
has a superb in-depth investigation. READ:
A major trend is accelerating: The global south is getting more powerful. From the rise of strategic autonomy in diplomacy to climate negotiations to sports and entertainment, the old power dynamics are changing. Here's my attempt to chart it out:
U.S. and Russia Conduct Largest Prisoner Swap Since Cold War - Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and 14 others are freed from Russian detention in historic multicountry deal. By
@RobbieGramer
and
@ak_mack
Religious polarization in India follows a simple logic, writes
@snigdhapoonam
. If Hindus "can be persuaded to set aside their multiple other identities and vote as Hindus alone, then a party can stay in power for as long as it likes."
13.8% of Mexicans, 10% of Colombians, and 9% of Brazilians trust their political parties. 82% across the Americas believe that 50%+ of their politicians are corrupt. The result is populist leaders offering easy, empty answers.
Read
@ChrisSabatini
's take: