{"id":363111,"date":"2026-05-18T16:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=363111"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:31:30","slug":"psir-brief-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/psir-brief-55\/","title":{"rendered":"PSIR Brief #55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s brief covers these important themes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dhani Mehrishi&#8217;s <\/strong>article in ORF talks about how rich-world rate hikes hurt vulnerable economies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ashok K Kantha <\/strong>in The Indian Express analysis the Trump-Xi summit which gave China a little more than the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ashok Lavasa <\/strong>in The Hindu focuses on why democracy needs real competition.<\/p>\n<p>UPSC has previously asked question on these themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GS-II 2025:<\/strong> \u201cDiscuss the \u2018corrupt practices\u2019 for the purpose of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. Analyze whether the increase in the assets of the legislators and\/or their associates, disproportionate to their known sources of income, would constitute \u2018undue influence\u2019 and consequently a corrupt practice.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>GS-II 2025:<\/strong> \u201c\u2018The reform process in the United Nations remains unresolved, because of the delicate imbalance of East and West and entanglement of the USA vs. Russo-Chinese alliance.\u2019 Examine and critically evaluate the East-West policy confrontations in this regard.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>PSIR 2024:<\/strong> \u201c\u2018Nothing is going to move within the WTO negotiations unless India is on board.\u2019 Discuss the main reasons behind India&#8217;s increased clout in the WTO.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>PSIR 2024:<\/strong> \u201cDiscuss the potential role that India could play as the leader of the Global South in realising the goal of establishing a new international economic order in the 21st century.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>PSIR 2023:<\/strong> \u201cCritically examine the impact of Globalisation on the developing countries of the world.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>PSIR 2023:<\/strong> \u201cQuadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) performs an important role in India&#8217;s strategic balancing act to withstand the dominance of China in Asia. Discuss.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/psirbyamitpratap\/556\">\u00a0Download the PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s brief covers these important themes: Dhani Mehrishi&#8217;s article in ORF talks about how rich-world rate hikes hurt vulnerable economies. Ashok K Kantha in The Indian Express analysis the Trump-Xi summit which gave China a little more than the U.S. Ashok Lavasa in The Hindu focuses on why democracy needs real competition. UPSC has previously&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/psir-brief-55\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PSIR Brief #55<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}