SINGAPORE: The implications of the Ukraine war, a possible escalation in the Taiwan Straits and the overall security in the Indo-Pacific were the main topics that dominated the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier defence summit organised annually in Singapore by the International Institute for Strategic Sudies (IISS), a London-based think tank. Another key focus area was […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A decade is a long time in politics and Thai voters have just demonstrated that. In 2014, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, who was army chief, took power in a coup by toppling the government led by Yingluck Shinawatra, daughter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra who too was removed in a coup earlier. In […]Read More
NEW DELHI: South Korea has been on a charm offensive with India: witness its mission staffers in Delhi dancing to the Oscar-winning song Nattu Nattu or foreign minister Park Jin acknowledging he is a Bollywood fan during a visit to the Capital earlier this month. But there’s something else here that suggests Seoul wants to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: After serving nearly four years as the Vietnamese envoy to India, Ambassador Pham Sanh Chau is satisfied with his contribution to the bilateral relationship. The most important change has been the change in mindsets of the people of Vietnam with regard to India, he told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale just hours […]Read More
New Delhi: Ambassador Ina H. Krisnamurthi, Indonesia’s Envoy to India in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. “India and Indonesia need to build connectivity, not only in terms of hard infrastructure, but also connectivity between the past, the present and the future”, Ambassador Krisnamurthi says, reflecting on centuries of civilisational, cultural and […]Read More
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