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Roving Periscope: Playing hardball, few countries dance to Trump’s tariff tunes

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: US President Donald Trump may not have predicted this. Gone are the days when America’s diktat prevailed worldwide. With globalization, networking, and privatization, geoeconomics is fast replacing geopolitics, and geostrategic goals are a far cry now. His grandstanding and then the inability to perform have earned him a tag: TACO, […]

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“Water bomb:” Arunachal CM Khandu warns against China’s huge dam in Tibet

July 9, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The world’s largest dam project being developed by China is a ‘water bomb’ for India, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu has warned. The project, which China named as the Yarlung Tsangpo dam, was announced after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the border region in 2021, the media reported on […]

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America Party: His net worth sinks, but Musk talks politics with Andrew Yang

July 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: His company’s net worth was down by a massive USD 68 billion in a single day on Monday, but the irrepressible Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, continued his push for his political outfit, America Party, and discussed politics with Andrew Yang, a former US Presidential candidate, the media reported […]

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Roving Periscope: India bargains hard; Trump extends tariff deal deadline to Aug 1

July 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With India bargaining hard and declaring that any trade and tariff deal with the US—indeed any country—will depend on protecting national interest, President Donald Trump, who was hoping to ink a mini-agreement or interim trade deal, has extended the reciprocal tariff deadline to August 1. Simultaneously, however, he imposed 25 […]

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King Charles hosts Macron in first European state visit since Brexit

July 8, 2025 revoi editor

Britain’s King Charles will welcome French President Emmanuel Macron to Windsor Castle on Tuesday for the first state visit by a European leader since Brexit in a trip aimed at celebrating the return of closer political ties between the countries. The grand ceremonial event will be the first for Macron, who enjoys a good personal […]

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Netanyahu meets Trump at White House as Israel, Hamas discuss ceasefire

July 8, 2025 revoi editor

U.S. President Donald Trump, hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, said the United States had scheduled talks with Iran and indicated progress on a controversial effort to relocate Palestinians out of Gaza. Speaking to reporters at the beginning of a dinner between U.S. and Israeli officials, Netanyahu said the […]

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China: Is ‘President-for-life’ Xi Jinping on his way out?

July 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: President Xi Jinping, who has helmed China since 2014, was ‘elected for life’ in 2023, and has been ‘missing’ for weeks, may step down by the end of 2025, the media reported on Monday, after weeks of social media speculation that he is ready to share power, or may have […]

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BRICS Summit: India leads it; Trump threatens “anti-Americans” with 10% extra tariff

July 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the just-concluded 17th BRICS Summit at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, tried to navigate delicate geopolitical scenario, in the absence of the Russian and Chinese Presidents, India became the focal point of the event which condemned the Pahalgam massacre, and passed several resolutions, but a livid US President Donald Trump […]

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Roving Periscope: “Ridiculous…won’t work,” says Trump on Musk’s political outfit

July 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Mocking his friend-turned-foe Elon Musk’s potential political outfit, “The America Party” (TAP), US President Donald Trump on Sunday said it was “ridiculous”, and “won’t work.” Multibillionaire and Tesla CEO Musk, who shifted from the Democrats to support the Republican presidential candidate and donated millions for Trump’s campaign in 2024, was […]

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Trump calls Musk’s formation of new party ‘ridiculous’ and criticizes his own NASA pick

July 7, 2025 revoi editor

President Donald Trump on Sunday called Elon Musk’s plans to form a new political party “ridiculous”, launching new barbs at the tech billionaire and saying the Musk ally he once named to lead NASA would have presented a conflict of interest given Musk’s business interests in space. A day after Musk escalated his feud with […]