Tag: Diplomacy
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THE DIPLOMACY OF SILENCE
Vaichariki: Power & Diplomacy There is an old convention in diplomacy that the most consequential sentence in a joint statement is often the one that is missing from it. Communiques are read the way physicians read X-rays, not for what is visible but for what should have been there and is not. A paragraph on…
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BRICS 2026 New Delhi Declaration: India’s Quiet Triumph
After two failed consensus attempts in 2026, India’s BRICS chairship delivered something few expected: a unanimous, 140-paragraph New Delhi Declaration. Inside it – a written Chinese and Russian reaffirmation of India’s UN Security Council aspirations, an unhedged condemnation of the Jammu and Kashmir terror attack, and a string of quieter wins from GIFT City to…