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Chetan Rana

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PhDing, Diplomacy and Disarmament, JNU | Associate Editor, 9DashLine| Indian Foreign Policy, Populism, Indo-Pacific, Myanmar| MUFC 🚩

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Hunter Marston @hmarston.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"While Myanmar’s international marginalisation has pushed the SAC towards China, the Beijing-Tatmadaw partnership is one of compulsion [more] than comfort." @9dashline.com #Myanmar www.9dashline.com/article/chin...
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9DASHLINE — China is hedging in Myanmar by leveraging its influence
Written by Chetan Rana. Even though Myanmar’s international isolation appears to push it further closer to China, the Sit Tat and the EAOs are simultaneously engaging and contesting with China in diff...
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A few thoughts on the Kashmir terrorist attack: The final death toll is unknown, but this is the worst attack since Pulwama in 2019. It is possible it was timed to maximise embarrassment to India, with Vance in New Delhi and Modi in Saudi Arabia. It is highly likely that India will respond... 1/x
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
For @9dashline.com, I argue that Beijing’s multi-stakeholder engagement with the junta, the EAOs, & the NLD reflects a deliberate effort to maintain influence regardless of Myanmar’s internal political outcomes. However, the agency of the domestic actors must not be underestimated.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
'The resilience of the far-right and ethno-populism across the world reflects a near pan-universal rejection of the globalisation agenda. The West needs the labour and not necessarily the labourers' I write for @ndtvworld.bsky.social on Trump's deportation moves. www.ndtv.com/opinion/what...
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Opinion: Opinion | Trump's Deportation Spree Means Little To Geopolitics
The mobility of people, especially from the Global South, is going to be scrutinised and regulated, but it won't have much bearing on state-to-state relations, unfortunately.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Twitter/X has been basically reduced to Musk's Mann ki baat.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Ten men Manchester United beat a twelve men Arsenal! On to the next round! GGMU! 🔴⚪⚫
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
#Manchester United Football Club plays so we remember that there's always a new rock bottom.
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Salil Tripathi @saliltripathi.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Manmohan Singh uncaged the Indian Tiger -- I write in Foreign Policy. foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/26/i...
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Manmohan Singh Uncaged the Indian Tiger
A soft-spoken Sikh in a Hindu-majority country, the former two-term prime minister laid the foundations for India’s rapid growth.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Jack Grealish hasn't scored for City in over a year but the internet makes you feel that Rashford is the worst player in Manchester. Yes, he hasn't been great the past 1.5 seasons. But he has had multiple 20+ G/A seasons. Surely there's a player that the club can do with.
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soccer players on a field with emirates palace banners
ALT: soccer players on a field with emirates palace banners
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Historians long ago identified the pattern of "working towards the Führer" (not equating Trump and Hitler). Underlings get creative in targeting supposed enemies. Then they invent new enemies. All to please the person at the top (who might not even care or, for that matter, know the new enemies).
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
What the Yoon?!
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The November edition of @9dashline.com's monthly newsletter, The Navigator, is here. Please check it out and do subscribe! ✨ open.substack.com/pub/9dashlin...
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THE NAVIGATOR
Welcome to the November edition of The Navigator. This month has been defined by developments that highlight both challenges and frustrations on the global and regional stage. In this issue, we examin...
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The United States is actively participating in genocide.
A US-made bomb about to land on residential buildings in Beirut.
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Patrizia Cogo @patriziacogo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
📣 The latest edition of #India Watch Briefing is out! Subscribe to receive updates on Indian foreign policy, with insights into its relations with the EU and China 👇 indiawatchbriefing.substack.com/p/india-watc...
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India Watch Briefing #11
India’s Confidence in Navigating Trump 2.0
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The TV media will avoid conversations about the continuing violence in #Manipur because it represents the two key things. 1. The absolute state failure in ensuring ethnic harmony and easing tensions at an early stage. Does India even have a Home Minister?
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Govt's response is to just lockdown the city as much as possible. This is not governance and this cannot be an annual policy.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you spend any considerable time outside, you will start feeling irritation in your eyes and throat. The city is choking. Again.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Not a very blue sky in Delhi NCR.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
IDF's *invasion* of Lebanon
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Zionism is a racist colonial ideology addicted to violence.
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
What do you call BlueSky users? Skywalkers?
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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Who gives a shit
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Guns and Hoaxes
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
9dashline has put together a forum to discuss the impact of Trump 2.0 on the politics and partners in the Indo-Pacific. Give it a read 👇🏽 www.9dashline.com/article/in-f...
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9DASHLINE — In Forum: Donald Trump re-elected, the Indo-Pacific reacts
In this In Forum, 9DASHLINE asks several experts what to expect from the next US administration and its potential impact on the Indo-Pacific region.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
"The developments in this report lead the Special Committee to conclude that the policies and practices of Israel during the reporting period are consistent with the characteristics of genocide" - from the UN Special Committee that, ignored by our media documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...
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Sushant Singh @sushantsingh.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The state has been burning since May 2023. It is ruled by Modi’s party. No one has been held accountable. Modi and his ministers don’t care but sadly, it seems that neither do a bulk of Indians.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hello everyone! Since Bluesky and its starter packs are kicking off I have curated one to bring together scholars working on Indian Foreign Policy. Feel free to suggest other potential members or even yourself! ✨ go.bsky.app/GJaoYpk
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Earlier this week, I wrote for @thehindu.com on India's shifting position on the Palestinian cause over the decades. This is a shorter version of an article scheduled to be published later this year.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
Yesterday, despite the unrelenting heat, people turned up in numbers and with energy to extend solidarity with the Palestinians. Arrest Netanyahu, immediately stop the genocide in Gaza. India's streets shall always support Palestine's independence. #AlleyesonRafah 🍉
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
🇮🇱 is openly violating ICJ's provisional measures. 🇮🇱 is ignoring the ICC warrants. 🇮🇱 is in the process of classifying UNRWA as a terrorist org. 🇮🇱 has now attacked Rafah. Dead Palestinian babies don't move Biden like the fake Israeli kids did. ISRAEL IS A TERROR STATE. #AllEyesOnRafah 🍉
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
Historian Ilan Pappe was detained in Detroit airport on Monday and asked if he was a Hamas supporter, whether he views Israeli action in Gaza as genocide, who his Arab and Muslim friends are in America, and what his solution is to the “conflict.” He is 70.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
The JNU community proved again its internationalism & moral conscience. The students extended support to the protestors across the world & pushed the admin to cancel the event of the US ambassador. My article on the US's role in the ongoing genocide couldn't have come out at a better point. 🍉
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Yes this. In 2021, some US Hindu groups filed a Title VI complaint against UPenn charging that Hindu students were unsafe on campus. Why? Bcuz Penn was 1 of several sponsors of an online academic conference called Dismantling Global Hindutva that sought to discuss the threat of Hindu nationalism./1
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
January 22 will be a historic day in the history of Modern India for all the wrong reasons. This is not the day when the decline started. But it will go down as the day this country crowned the idea of a Hindu Rashtra. Any facade of a secular state is dead. What a circus.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
'With the 🇺🇲 & its allies stretched handling multiple crises overseas along with complicated internal politics & factionalism, the door may be left ajar for 🇨🇳 to extend its influence, fill the geopolitical vacuum, & solidify its status as a regional hegemon.' www.thequint.com/opinion/chin...
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Proud Communist @communistvet.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
We keep comparing brutal leaders to Hitler when Kissinger was exponentially more brutal and bloodthirsty.
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Don't Rehabilitate Henry Kissinger
His life should teach us about the crimes of Empire
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
🚨HERE WE GO🚨 (Nearly 3 months late) I have joined the amazing team at 9DashLine as an Associate Editor. Please follow our submission guidelines and send in your articles or pitches to: chetan@9dashline.com admin@9dashline.com www.9dashline.com/submissions
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9DASHLINE — Submissions
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
A new publication is out 🎉 Amongst all the amazing chapters, I hope you enjoy reading my modest contribution on Modi's populist discourse when engaging with Indian Americans. Looking forward to critical feedback and developing this work further. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Populism Beyond Borders: Modi’s Discursive Strategy with the Indian Diaspora in the United States ...
Most previous research on populist discursive strategies focuses on the domestic sphere. This chapter pushes beyond national borders to study how populists engage key audiences abroad by focusing on I...
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Dear United States, Funding the occupier, Israel, is 'not the right thing to do' either.
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
How are people still calling it Israel's 'right' to defend itself?? The US, UK, and the rest of the Liberal International Order lot are funding war crimes. They too have blood on their hands.
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🔥Latina🔥 #MutualAid #Abolition #AI #UnionStrong✊ @dalatindiva.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
If you can look at the sky without worrying about missiles If you can breathe fresh air without the smell of burning flesh If you can taste water without drinking the refuse of death If you can hold a child in your arms without crying in grief You are Blessed Fight for Those with so much Less
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Khushi پدما S. Rathore @chichoriktputli.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Women Experts- Indian Foreign Policy : Making life easy for all 'manel' makers. Here is a growing list of women experts working on Indian foreign policy:) P.S: Please feel free to contact us for further additions ! Details 👇🏽 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
In my latest for 9DL, Shivani and I, discuss the politics and science behind the controversial Fukushima water discharge. www.9dashline.com/article/fuku...
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9DASHLINE — Fukushima’s waters: discharge decision, politics, and nuclear safety standards
Written by Shivani Singh and Chetan Rana. The fact that different states in the region, despite being exposed to similar risks, are not aligned in either supporting or protesting Japan’s decision ...
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Chetan Rana @chetanr.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Hi Bluesky People! Trying this app in case of the inevitable demise of Twitter/X. People working on IR, Indo-Pacific, Myanmar, & Populism please connect! Also, shout out to constantly heartbroken United fans, GGMU! 🔴⚪⚫ 🫰🏽🫰🏽
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