NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Ambassador Anil Wadhwa, Former Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs and Author of the CII Australia Economic Strategy Report in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. India and Australia hold the inaugural 2+2 Ministerial meeting in Delhi between Foreign Minister Marise Payne, Minister of Defence Peter Dutton […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Covid assistance to India “is a reflection of your friendship, status and influence in the world,” Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s High Commissioner to India and Ambassador to Bhutan says, adding, “on Sunday, one of our Australian Defence Force aircraft will be landing here in Delhi, with the delivery of another of the oxygen tanks […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Australia does not support the Quad becoming a Nato-style military alliance! That’s the word from Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s high commissioner to India. In a wide ranging and exclusive conversation with StratNews Global’s Parul Chandra, he gave reasons why his government felt that way. He also offered an insight into why the Australian authorities […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I expect the Biden administration to uphold the Trump administration’s precedent with regard to arms sales to Taiwan,” says Charlie Lyons Jones at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in Canberra, adding, “it would be really helpful for bolstering deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.” The Trump administration notified Congress of military deals to […]Read More
Australia has held its fire despite evidence of China’s hack attack on parliament in February last year, and continued attacks on critical sectors of Australia’s economy and industry. “Australia’s position is that it will attribute attacks where it is in our national interest to do so,” said Tara Cavanagh, Minister-Counsellor, South Asia in the Department Of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Two diplomatic broadsides delivered on Twitter, underscoring once again how China’s actions in India’s Ladakh, have resonated through the world. The first from Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s high commissioner to India, who had called on External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday. In a statement released to the media, the high commissioner called for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Widening mistrust between Delhi and Beijing fuelled by an assertive President Xi Jinping has compelled India to enlist the support of others. Former diplomat turned academic Prof. Rory Medcalf of Canberra-based Australian National University told StratNews Global in an interview after the Modi-Morrison virtual summit on June 4 that the elevation of ties to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: How has India’s foreign policy changed since Narendra Modi took charge as prime minister in 2014? And what has it achieved? There’s some continuity with the foreign policy of the earlier government (led by Manmohan Singh) but it aspires to be transformational, says Australian academic Dr Ian Hall, speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Until COVID-19 struck the world, who would’ve imagined that the prime ministers of India and Australia would be forced to hold a virtual summit? Or the two would discuss their tensions with China? Given that, it’s clear Narendra Modi and Scott Morrison will be hoping to further crank up their security cooperation in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Australia and China are at daggers drawn following Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s demand for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. He also called for the overhaul of the World Health Organisation (WHO), which is accused of pandering to Beijing by not calling out the pandemic earlier. China has responded with threats […]Read More
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