Every time there is a new dispensation in Washington, D.C., there is always a debate in the Asia-Pacific or Indo-Pacific on the all-too-important issue of commitment: will the United States …
Sridhar Krishnaswami
Sridhar Krishnaswami
The author is a Columnist at South Asian Herald. He is a senior journalist who has reported from Washington DC on North America and United Nations.
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Guest Column: The Difficult Last Mile
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 5 minutes readIf events of Alaska and Washington DC are anything to go by, it would seem that finally there is light at the end of the tunnel as far as the …
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Guest Column: Nukes, Mercedes, and a Dump Truck
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 6 minutes readThere are Generals and there are Generals. And there is Field Marshal Asim Munir, who appears to be getting ahead of himself by wading into an area that even a …
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Guest Column: Looking Beyond Tariffs and Oil
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 5 minutes readThere are some folks who have started believing that the downside in United States-India relations has begun and worse days are ahead. Others still are of the view that the …
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Guest Column: Tariff Hammer Falls on India
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 6 minutes readPerhaps some believed that the day would not come for a missive from U.S. President Donald Trump on a trade deal. But two days before the deadline, “Friend” India did …
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Guest Column: A Long Way to Go for Japan
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 4 minutes readIt is not as if the last word has been said on Japan and the United States in the aftermath of the recent trade deal of July 22, 2025. If …
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Clearly, some political and media pundits are looking way beyond their nose while talking about the visit of President Donald Trump to India, coinciding with the Quad Leaders Summit. Complicating …
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Guest Column: It is Not Always About Money in Politics
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 5 minutes readMiffed at the manner in which lawmakers went about the business of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, almost immediately floated his America Party, a …
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Guest Column: The Trump-Musk Feud is Not Funny Business
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 5 minutes readIt will be shrugged away in some quarters as two powerful men and an occasional soap opera, but not really a drama to drag on for decades. In the context …
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Guest Column: Attention Must Be on Gaza Now
by Sridhar Krishnaswami 5 minutes readIn all the noise of the last two weeks on Iran, there was palpable nervousness in sections of the international community that a bigger problem in the Middle East, the …