26 February 2024 New Delhi, India E&OE For a long time, some outsiders said of India: “it’s a country of great potential – and always will be”. To those sceptics, I declare that modern India remains a country of vast potential but is already a country of great achievement. It’s already the world’s fifth largest…
Remarks to the Legatum Institute, London E&OE Check Against Delivery —— This paper, from AUKUS to CAUKUS, recommending the inclusion of Canada, in the seamless defence research and procurement side of AUKUS, makes enormous sense because it would strengthen the democracies at a critical time. When the British defence minister recently warned that the world…
Originally published in The Times E&OE The prospect of major war is more real than at any time since 1939. We all wish it were otherwise but we urgently need to face up to this. The Russian dictator is starting to win in Ukraine and won’t stop there. The Middle East could explode at any…