“Head-on | The West’s veto over India’s rise has expired”, First Post, November 25, 2025
“Western powers led by the United States have held a vice-like grip on world affairs since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The US was the unchallenged global hegemon. Post-Soviet Russia was run by Boris Yeltsin and corrupt oligarchs. China was a dot in America’s rear-view mirror. Its GDP in 1991 was $0.83 trillion, a fraction of US GDP of $6.16 trillion that year.
Europe, Japan, South Korea and the Middle East were under America’s protective military umbrella. India’s foreign policy was stubbornly autonomous but its bankrupt economy in 1991 lay at the mercy of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), controlled by Washington…….”
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