VIKRAM MISRI: BEST CHOICE FOR THE FOREIGN SECRETARY

What are the unmistakable concerns of the world today? Ukraine- Israel-Gaza: long drawn Conflicts accompanied by incalculable human sufferings & humanitarian crises and infrastructural destruction with no end in sight and huge negative consequences for the Global South.

- SURENDRA KUMAR

Impending Change of Govts in the UK. France, Iran, USA and more than a dozen countries facing elections in coming months and impact their results may have on India.

Raging tension and brinkmanship between the US & China & Russia.

China’s aggressiveness & intimidation against her neighbours, especially in South China Sea & her obvious intention to interfere in the selection of the next Dalai Lama.

Relations in immediate neighbourhood: China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Maldives & Nepal experiencing considerable challenges. Lengthening shadows of China in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & Bhutan remain cause of worry.

Above all, modernising our Defence forces, securing our borders & ensuring the rightful place on the Global stage for the rising, ambitious and aspirational India which is the leading voice of the Global South.

Unprecedented heat waves, rains and floods are stark warning of the grave existential crises the world is facing from global warming and climate changes and urgent need to fulfil pledges, follow up and take concrete action rather than resort to high sounding rhetoric and hollow declarations.

More than 57 countries, many in Africa, are in the grip of crippling debt crises, must get this problem addressed on priority.

Terrorism, cybercrimes, crypto currency, money laundering, data harvesting, storage & it’s tarnsfer, benefits and risks of unbridled use of Artificial Intelligence are issues that deserve global discourse, cooperation & efforts at consensus building.