All Editorials Snapshot & Free Vocabulary PDF – 11 Dec 2025
The Hindu Editorials snapshot
Editorial 1
AI Must Pay: On the DPIIT Working Paper on AI and Copyright Issues
Large language models advance quickly due to better machine learning techniques and vast access to online text, data, and media for training, but AI companies claim free use of internet content despite requiring licences for others, sparking clashes between developers and creators in news, entertainment, and publishing. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade’s working paper proposes a fair fix: mandatory licensing where AI firms pay via a non-profit body collecting fees based on revenue from Indian content used in training, acknowledging that individual opt-outs are impractical and treating data processing as a right since models create new outputs rather than copy. Challenges remain in fairly dividing royalties between small publishers investing effort and big media producing volumes, amid ongoing lawsuits without clear rulings, but acting now beats waiting; the paper, despite tech dissent, signals collaboration over letting AI disrupt media unchecked.
Editorial 2
Truce in Tatters: On the Cambodia-Thailand Conflict
Fighting restarted this week between Thailand and Cambodia, breaking the fragile ceasefire US President Donald Trump helped arrange just two months ago via Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim, risking regional stability after May skirmishes killed a Cambodian soldier near Preah Vihear temple, prompting Cambodia’s Thai goods ban and border closures, July landmine injuries to five Thais (blamed on Cambodia), diplomatic downgrades, and five-day clashes killing 48 and displacing 300,000—escalating again on December 7 with Cambodia alleging Thai airstrikes after Thailand suspended the truce post another blast.
The dispute traces to 1904-1907 Franco-Siamese treaties poorly marking forested Dângrêk borders between Siam and French Indochina; ICJ awarded Cambodia the 11th-century Khmer Hindu Preah Vihear temple (UNESCO site) in 1962, but no agreed demarcation fuels endless mistrust and flare-ups.
ASEAN must step up amid Myanmar crisis, with Malaysia and Indonesia pushing talks, restoring ceasefire, and building confidence to avert worse erosion of Southeast Asia’s stability and economic ties.
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Editorial 3
Trump’s National Security Strategy is a Break from the Past. India Should Welcome It
Many Indian strategists feel down about the sudden drop in India-US ties since Donald Trump returned as president, fearing his new National Security Strategy will worsen it, yet realists in Delhi should see fresh opportunities in Trump’s plan to overhaul US global engagement, breaking from post-1945 internationalism and post-Cold War norms shaped by America First ideology. Key shifts include prioritising the Western Hemisphere over Latin America and Caribbean dominance, dropping global hegemony for selective interventions on vital interests, urging allies to share military burdens instead of relying on Washington, favouring cultural-political uniqueness over liberal universalism allowing states their own systems, and linking economic revival to security via reindustrialisation, resilient supply chains, and fair trade. This less interventionist US that accepts power limits and diversity suits India, avoiding unequal alliances or meddling fears that kept distance before, though challenges like trade rows, Trump’s softer China stance, and Pakistan outreach need handling via India’s growth acceleration to close China gap and widen Pakistan lead, defence reforms against Chinese might, Pakistan tension cuts to block Trump interference, and leveraging burden-sharing for India’s global ambitions alongside Europe, Russia, Japan for better Trump terms amid turbulence.
Editorial 4
From Belem to Copernicus, the Unfolding Climate Challenge
The world crossed the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming limit last year after nearly hitting it in 2023, with 2025 temperatures matching the prior two years per EU’s Copernicus programme, potentially making 2023-2025 the first three-year span exceeding it—echoing WMO data showing this decade as the hottest since mid-1800s—yet scientists view the target as a 30-year average, not a point of no return from extremes.
Studies warn of a new era with temperatures consistently near 1.5°C; 2025’s heat persists without El Niño’s boost, defying La Niña’s cooling, with record January warmth and November breaching the threshold again.
COP30 in Brazil’s Belém agreed to triple adaptation funds over 10 years for resilience against floods, heatwaves, storms, cyclones, but delivery to vulnerable locals remains tough—unlike mitigation’s broad scale—demanding policymakers link weather chaos, Copernicus alerts, and conference pledges.
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