Dhruva Jaishankar · ध्रुव जयशंकर
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Executive Director @orfamerica · Author of 'Vishwa Shastra: India & the World' https://t.co/D3MaYjzOVd
Washington · New Delhi
Joined February 2011
Buy 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐰𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚: 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝. In India 🇮🇳.1. In bookstores. 2. Purchase hardcover online: 3. E-book: Internationally 🌎.1. E-book:
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What a fantastic picture of an elusive snow leopard in Ladakh, probably reacting to the shutter sound of the camera trap.
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Some US/European commentators:. 2001-2011: “India should stay out of Afghanistan.”. 2011-2016: “India is irrelevant in Afghanistan.”. 2016-2020: “India isn’t doing enough in Afghanistan.”. 2021: “The fall of the Indian-backed government in Afghanistan…”.
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@Culture_Crit These were all completed after 1990, but I suppose the UAE, India, Thailand, and Côte d’Ivoire don’t constitute “humanity.”
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Image from the inside of a US Air Force C-17 from Kabul to Qatar, with 640 Afghans on board.
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A few months ago, as #Covid19 cases surged, #Indonesia provided oxygen to India when it was most needed. Good to see India now returning the favour, with a shipment of oxygen concentrator and liquid O2 to Jakarta. 🇮🇳 🇮🇩
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Brands unlikely to break into the Indian market:
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Overwhelmed by the condolence messages for my grandmother, Sulochana Subrahmanyam (1932-2020). She lived a remarkable life, with 4 children, 6 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren. In her 50s, she returned to university to receive a PhD in music.
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There is not a single Indian official statement that gives 1971 as a rationale for India’s present position on Russia. Also, and this may sound surprising, but Indian national interests are not defined in Washington, Brussels, or Lisbon.
But no instead of looking at its national interest India looks at … 1971. It supports Russia against Ukraine because in 1971 the Soviet Union supported India. That was a long time ago and (wait for this)….
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Is there some competition underway for “worst India strategy take by an over-opinionated white male”? Bonus points for being ill-informed, sounding patronizing, and dropping some not-so-subtle hints of racism.
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What a striking photograph of the Indian Air Force's Surya Kiran over the Statue of Unity. (via @SWAC_IAF) #RashtriyaEktaDiwas
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THREAD: Over the coming days and weeks, we are likely to see a lot of idle speculation about what is going on in the China-India border region. Here are 5 QUESTIONS that people should be asking themselves as they consume and analyze reports. 1/18
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Pick your headline, because both are true:. "125,000 fully vaccinated Americans have tested positive for Covid-19 to date". or . "Less than 1 in 1000 fully vaccinated Americans have tested positive for Covid-19 to date".
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I’m frequently surprised how casual observers of India in other countries are unaware of:. 1. 2020 Galwan clashes and implications for 🇮🇳 🇨🇳 relations.2. India’s recent trade agreements with 🇦🇺 🇦🇪 .3. India Stack.4. Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative.5. International Solar Alliance.
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I'm going to regret this, but - given some absolutely bonkers commentary on the subject - a short thread on U.S.-Pakistan relations and implications for India. Essentially, it appears that every U.S. administration experiences this at some point:
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One more relevant factoid. India’s top oil sources are:. 1. Iraq 🇮🇶 .2. Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 .3. UAE 🇦🇪 .4. USA 🇺🇸 .5. Nigeria 🇳🇬 .6. Canada 🇨🇦 . Russia’s share has been between 1%-3% in recent years.
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Four headlines from the past 8 days:
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This is the most detailed election analysis I’ve seen
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These statements - one by the US State Department spokesperson and one by German Chancellor Angela Merkel - are going over disastrously in India, as it experiences the worst yet of the #Covid19 pandemic. They further reinforce the notion of an “all-against-all” world.
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The Indian-American community in Houston raised $100,000 for Ian Grillot, who took a bullet for an Indian in Kansas.
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I guess we’re into Round 2 of “European commentators who never bother to learn about Indian perspectives acting surprised that India doesn’t see the world as they do.” . (I say this as someone who’s organized India-Europe strategic dialogues since 2010.).
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THREAD: I spent the last week attending several international conferences (all Chatham House Rule) in Washington DC, meeting over 100 people from >30 countries. A few takeaways on: (1) Russia-Ukraine, (2) the global economy, (3) China, (4) U.S. power, (5) emerging tech:.
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“I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” A short thread on Robert Oppenheimer, the Bhagavad Gita, and the poetry of the nuclear age.
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General observation. Among other things, social media has done an incredible amount of damage to:. 1. The art of careful reading. 2. The art of asking questions.
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One of the strangest breeds of people on Twitter are those who abuse you mercilessly and then send you an email saying “Dear Sir, I am interested in a job/internship/fellowship at your institution.”.
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Proof that Novak Djokovic is Indian:. Yoga ✔️.Meditation ✔️.Jain diet ✔️.Bandhgala ✔️.
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I wonder what prompted this?.
The worst mistake the West made was not keeping India close. We could have had a bulwark against China of a billion English speaking capitalists. Washington arrogance pushed an ally away. All we got was Indian tech CEOs from a culture with no respect for free speech.
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THREAD: Now that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has named or nominated senior members of his foreign policy and national security team, it might be useful to survey what all they have written or said in the recent past:
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😂 This exchange on my tl has more romance than your average rom-com. “They called each other gadha, but ended up bonding over dosa.” 👇🏾.
@KushAgg63817610 @timesofindia @d_jaishankar I don’t eat much dosa but Ok next in India i will hit up your dosa to compare.
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Last night, I was in an Indian television studio, where the anchor was asking why India doesn't do more to punish Pakistan economically. When will things change? The short answer - and something many Indians don't realise - is that it has.
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Exactly. Like boycott BRI, engage in a Quad dialogue, stop illegal Chinese road building in Bhutan, expel Chinese journalists, criticize Chinese actions in the South China Sea, pull out of RCEP, evacuate students from Wuhan. .
@Cold_Peace_ In a nutshell: India does everything it can to not piss China off. And China does what it pleases.
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Top 100 defense companies in 2020 according to Defence News:. 41: 🇺🇸.10: 🇬🇧.8: 🇨🇳.7: 🇹🇷.5: 🇫🇷.4: 🇰🇷.3: 🇩🇪 🇮🇱.2: 🇮🇳 🇮🇹 🇷🇺🇳🇴🇳🇱.1: 🇨🇦🇧🇷🇧🇪🇦🇺🇫🇮🇯🇵🇨🇭🇸🇪🇸🇬🇪🇸.
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This one photograph has more interlocking storylines than Pulp Fiction.
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U.S. states compared to administrative areas in India with similar populations:
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Well, if I'd known, perhaps I wouldn't have written that scathing op-ed in tomorrow's @livemint. 😂.
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The past couple of months have revealed that:. 1. A lot of vocal American commentators do not know much about India's relations with Russia and Europe, defense supplies, or energy security. 2. A lot of vocal Indian commentators do not know much about US politics, NATO, or Russia.
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So far, 68 countries have received #COVID19 vaccines manufactured in India: . - 35 as grant aid (8 million doses).- 15 on a purely commercial basis (34 million sold total).- 18 through COVAX only (16 million total provided).
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It's humbling when a newspaper you used to write for regularly refers to you as "a Twitter user."
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Today is 10 years since my grandfather, K. Subrahmanyam, passed away. Last year, at the National Defence College, I discussed 7 ways in which he contributed to India's strategic thought and practice:
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The Rand Corporation - once an organization with a reputation for analytical rigor - is now putting out hot takes of such ignorance and hypocrisy that they’re being promoted by Chinese propaganda. Quite the come down.
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Big announcements in India on semiconductors, maritime affairs, space, and clean energy —all in the past 48 hours.
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Former 🇬🇧 National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the US Kim Darroch says UK has a “warm and fuzzy” view of India, but India is “ruthlessly unsentimental.” . He doubts a UK-India trade deal is possible (that’s not exactly what his former colleagues are saying).
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24 critical minerals identified by the Government of India: . Beryllium.Cadmium.Cobalt.Gallium.Glauconite.Graphite.Indium.Lithium.Molybdenum.Nickel.Niobium.Phosphate.Platinum.Potash.Rare Earths.Rhenium.Selenium.Tantalum.Tellurium.Tin.Titanium.Tungsten.Vanadium.Zirconium.
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@DerekJGrossman Knock off the whitesplaining, bro. It’s quite clear you know nothing about India. Enough said.
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Steps announced by US gov to assist India on #COVID19:. 1. Divert US order for some Covishield raw materials to SII.2. Global release of 10m AstraZeneca doses (subject to FDA) + 50m in May-June.3. O2 cylinders & generators.4. PPE/tests/Remdesivir.5. USAID/CDC technical assistance.
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Worrisome times for India-Japan relations.
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Revealing, if unsurprising, retweet
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Is Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme? Robert McCauley argues that it’s worse:
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This is remarkable: where does top talent on AI come from, and where does it go.
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If India 🇮🇳 were to list 14 grievances against Australia 🇦🇺 it would probably look something like this:
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Henry Kissinger was around so long that he interacted professionally - albeit in ways that were unpleasant, combative, cordial, constructive, awkward, and humorous - with 3 generations of my family. 1. This, from the summer of 1971, recounted in Gary Bass’s Blood Telegram:
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A few interesting stats about Chinese apps in India:. - TikTok: 611 million downloads in India (30% of total). - SHAREIt: 3rd most active app in India after WhatsApp and FB. - UC Browser has 13% market share in India (2nd to Chrome at 75%).
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There appears to be a LOT happening in India - Philippines relations right now. 🇮🇳 🇵🇭
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The international nature of the shipping industry is always so fascinating. The MV #EVERGIVEN is reportedly:. 🇯🇵-owned.🇹🇼-operated.🇵🇦-registered.🇩🇪-managed.🇮🇳-staffed. It got stuck in #Suez 🇪🇬 en route from 🇲🇾 to 🇳🇱.
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The US says one thing and does another. "America lacks credibility!". India says one thing and does another. "Strategic confusion!". China says one thing and does another. "Masterful strategy! Sun Tzu!". EU says one thing and does another. "A strong statement of intent!".
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Someone should write a dissertation on the politics of street names in front of diplomatic missions:
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Amid the deluge of #KamalaHarris biographical articles that will inevitably follow, I’d recommend this lovely piece co-authored by @SBengali
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This ought to be of interest to Mr Erdogan: India holds leadership-level meetings with Armenia and Cyprus.
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Afghanistan has changed a lot. From 2000 to 2016:. Life expectancy: 55 to 64.Birth rate per 1000: 48 to 33.Female labour force participation: 15% to 20%.Primary school enrollment: 22% to 107%.Electricity access: 1% to 84%.Export % of GDP: 26 to 37. (World Bank).
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"Britain is seeking to forge an alliance of ten democracies to create alternative suppliers of 5G equipment and other technologies to avoid relying on China. a “D10” club of democratic partners, based on the G7 plus Australia, South Korea and India."
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A lot of people are going to be googling Usha Chilukuri in India tomorrow.
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General rule: People lecturing Indians about what why relations with Russia are not in Indian interests do their cause a disservice. Equally, Russians lecturing Indians about Indian relations with the West do themselves a disservice (cf. Lavrov on Indo-Pacific).
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If you're having a bad day, just think that Tom Steyer spent $12.1 million in television advertising in Iowa only to win 285 final round votes in the Iowa Caucuses (with 75% of results in). That's $42,456 per vote.
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Restaurant owner in France finds Indian newspapers from 1966 - from the Air India plane crash near Mont Blanc - which had remained frozen for 54 years. (Incidentally, the air crash in which Indian nuclear scientist Homi Bhabha was killed.).
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Somewhere: “Henry Kissinger and Arundhati Roy are the two people I most wanted to read on the subject of pandemics.”.
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A little off-brand thread this Sunday: 10 Lessons from reading all 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories.
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Within 72 hours of a new administration in Washington:
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I write in HT: 5 years ago, Russia's GDP was 20% larger than India's; today, India's is 70% larger than Russia's.
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Getting wrongly tagged on social media for both one’s first *and* last name is great exposure to the breadth of India’s political spectrum.
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Pleased to announce that my book - 'Vishwa Shastra: India and the World' - will be published by @PenguinIndia in December. 1/3
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Looking forward to Xinhua's interview on the Quad with Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend in Trinidad.
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So it turns out this was Sacha Baron Cohen filming his Borat sequel. Really.
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I know all eyes in India are on the women’s hockey bronze medal match, but Aditi Ashok has just moved into second place after four holes in the third round of women’s golf. #IndiaAtOlympics.
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1. There has been no U.S. Ambassador to India in more than 18 months.2. Regional diplomatic outreach in India is reducing, not increasing.3. U.S. tourist visa processing times in India have a two-year wait. #StrategicPartner .
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India ranks sixth in the Climate Change Performance Infex. Ahead of Finland and Norway. #CCPI2020 #Cop25Madrid2019.
„31 of countries assessed in the #CCPI2020 have reduced their #emissions from 2012 to 2017. Still no country has done enough so far. That’s why the first 3 places in the ranking remain unoccupied“ - @christophbals at CCPI launch at #COP25Madrid. ➡️
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It's encouraging that so many people in India have taken an interest in the European Union. A good opportunity to learn to distinguish between the:. - European Council.- European Commission.- Council of the European Union.- European Parliament.- European External Action Service.
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This is a very significant development.
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Donald Trump Jr. is getting a warmer reception in India than Justin Trudeau. Let that sink in for a minute.
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This is straight outta ‘Veep’ or ‘Yes, Minister’
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I'm presuming that China's Consul-General in Kolkata is unaware of the highly inappropriate insult against another head of government that he just retweeted.
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Americans are learning that all Indian doctors named Gupta are not related to each other. Good.
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The serial Twitter plagiarist strikes again.
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If only this topic received one-tenth — nay, even 1% — of the attention being paid to the British royal family.
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Yeh humari pawri ho rahi hai.
massive, just massive rally organized by youth wing of the communist party of india, ahead of upcoming natl election
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