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US President Donald Trump hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a 2-day summit. The summit featured much pomp and pageantry, but there was no talk of any hard bargain or breakthroughs. Both countries agreed to extend an existing trade agreement by two months. It will now expire on January 10, 2027, instead of November 10, 2026. Xi warned that U.S. support for Taiwan could complicate U.S.-China ties. #CutTheClutter Episode 1907 looks at the message behind the pomp and grand gestures, as well as the takeaways from Trump-Xi Summit. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta also explains what the US-China G2 could mean for India and the rest of the world.

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A Kolkata event, titled “Partition’s forgotten people: Subaltern spaces across fluid borders”, highlighted a community that has been othered due to language and alleged closeness to the Pakistan Army during the 1971 war. More than five decades after Bangladesh’s Liberation War and two years after the July 2024 uprising that ended Sheikh Hasina’s rule, many Bihari Muslims, who are branded as Pakistanis, remain on the margins of Bangladeshi society. The discrimination remains, and they are still forced to work as barbers, butchers, and rickshaw pullers. Author and ThePrint Columnist Deep Halder shares insights from the event.----more----Read full article here: https://theprint.in/feature/around-town/kolkata-event-discusses-forgotten-bihari-muslims-in-bangladesh-1971-stigma-remains/3047934/

Gyanesh Kumar has now become the second most unforgettable among our 26 CECs. He obviously didn’t seek this ‘fame’. But he can’t shake it off. For Modi government, this has come at a juncture that’s usually troublesome in India: the third year of the incumbent. Watch this week’s #NationalInterest with Shekhar Gupta. https://theprint.in/national-interest/since-indira-govts-drift-in-the-3rd-year-modi-must-restore-ec-image-to-get-out-of-it/3053831/ https://theprint.in/national-interest/narendra-modi-bjp-longest-serving-continuously-elected-prime-minister-challenges/2958655/

'The Modi government may not be ready to act against Gyanesh Kumar, but allowing the controversy to continue carries its own risks.' Watch #ThePrint #SharpEdge with Vir Sanghvi:

To Read: https://theprint.in/opinion/the-gyanesh-kumar-controversy-modi-govt-when-things-go-wrong-the-crises-keep-coming/3053031/

Why has Vijay govt relaxed Tamil Nadu temple mobile phone rules?

Ukraine and Middle East wars show how the battlefield has been redefined. #CutTheClutter draws from comments by Indian Army Chief General Dhiraj Seth's comments at the NDTV defence summit, remarks by former Defence Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov on X and an essay by the recently 'evicted' US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll in the Foreign Affairs. Why are their comments important and what's the common message in them? Episode 1998 looks at some of these crucial questions, and what they mean for the changing nature of wars. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta also explains how technology has changed battlefields and lists the five key lessons for India.----more----Watch #CutTheClutter on Op Spider Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGhelHxJgM8----more----Read Dan Driscoll's essay in Foreign Affairs here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/rewiring-arsenal-democracy-war-dan-driscoll----more----Ukraine's ex-Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov's post: https://x.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/2103837667154669837----more----Army Chief's remarks at NDTV Defence Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWjIBeDtHY