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Roving Periscope: Carney, Trump’s new enemy, to replace Trudeau as Canadian PM

March 10, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Mark Carney, 59, was elected as the new Liberal Party leader on Sunday to replace Justin Trudeau as the new Canadian Prime Minister six months ahead of the scheduled parliamentary elections by October 2025. He may find his task cut out from the word go: He has to deal with […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump says India to cut ‘high tariffs’

March 8, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Union Minister for Industry and Commerce Piyush Goyal wrapped up his week-long visit to the US on bilateral trade talks, President Donald Trump said India has agreed to cut ‘high tariffs.’ On Friday, he said India has agreed to “cut their tariffs way down,” signalling a potential shift in […]

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Trump effect: “India, China should support each other,” says Chinese FM!

March 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Under mounting pressure from US President Donald Trump on a variety of issues, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday said India and China should tango together and support each other, the media reported. Citing the recent developments in the bilateral relations between the two countries, he said the two […]

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Roving Periscope: For a month, Trump delays 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada

March 7, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: He may not have bargained for a swift tit-for-tat from both Canada and Mexico, or the fallout in home markets for the tariffs he imposed on the countries to the north and south of the United States of America. Amid his roller-coaster drive through geoeconomics and geopolitics since January 20, […]

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Multipolarity: Trump policies suit India, says Dr. Jaishankar

March 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The new US administration under President Donald Trump is moving towards multipolarity which suits India’s interests, and the two nations have agreed on the need for a bilateral trade pact, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar has said. His remarks came during a session titled ‘India’s rise and role in the world’ […]

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Roving Periscope: As realities dawn, Trump tries to apply balm to wounds!

March 6, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With complications to his tariff announcements and threats surfacing, amid some of his pressure tactics working, US President Donald Trump has paused tariffs, and granted US automakers a month’s exemption on Canadian and Mexican imports, even as Washington also forced Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to “apologize” and the European Union […]

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One more: “If the US wants any war, we will fight till the end,” says China

March 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Retorting sharply to US President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs from April, the Chinese Embassy in Washington said Beijing is ready to “fight till the end” in any type of war the US wants, the media reported on Wednesday. “If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, […]

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Trump @US Congress: Ukraine, Greenland, China, India…and more

March 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In his first address to the joint session of US Congress after starting his second term in January, President Donald Trump on Tuesday raked up the issues now familiar with his actions so far, held his predecessor Joe Biden responsible for inflation, and threatened reciprocal tariffs against India, China, and […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump pushes Europe and China to hike defense budgets

March 5, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With US President Donald Trump’s rapid-fire actions emerging as the latest ‘threat’ to the existing world order, Europe and China are increasing their respective defense budgets to meet the potential exigencies in the next four years. While the European Union (EU) has proposed borrowing of 150 billion euros (USD 157.76 […]

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Trump tariffs: This is an “act of war,” says Warren Buffet

March 4, 2025 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: America’s billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett has slammed US President Donald Trump’s latest tariff plans, calling them “an act of war, to some degree”, the media reported. His remarks follow the US imposing new tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. In an interview with CBS, aired on Sunday, Buffett, 94, […]