“India’s quiet strategy for turbulent times: Bide the time, build the strength”, First Post, November 30, 2025
“As disruptor par excellence, US President Donald Trump is setting new goalposts for his nation and its allies on the one hand, and new goals for ‘em all, friends, adversaries and the ‘inconsequential’ rest, to achieve. The latest is the American decision to stay away from the G20 Summit in South Africa and the Cop 30 climate conference in Brazil.
In the absence of the US in both meetings, the final decisions are inconsequential. The US was considered the unknown father of the G20. It continues to be the single largest polluter and will remain so for years and decades to come. It motivated the Cop series, but when global consensus set separate goals and goalposts for every nation, including the US, America spewed venom.
Yet, the West, starting with their well-funded climate NGOs, have failed in the past decades to paint China first, and then China and India together, as the world’s worst polluter(s). That title and brand still rest with the US……”
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