NEW DELHI: Is India under pressure from close ally Israel after it designated the Lashkar-e-Toiba a terrorist organisation? Perhaps, but as Ramanathan Kumar, former special secretary R&AW told StratNews Global, such designations are a very political process. It explains why India’s Convention on Terrorism proposed so many years ago remains untouched at the United Nations. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: At the inaugural ceremony of the two-week-long Pacific Games that began on Sunday at the Solomon Islands, sport seemed to be riding on geopolitics or it may well be the opposite. The venue— a stadium built with Chinese money— stood tall as yet another testament to the growing influence of China in the archipelago […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Gaza must be demilitarized and deradicalized in the same manner that de-Nazification was carried out in Germany after World War Two, said Mark Regev, senior adviser to Israel’s prime minister. He was speaking at a webinar on Tuesday organised by the Israel-Asia Institute to brief listeners in Asia on the Gaza war. De-radicalization, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China remained the key concern for India and Australia. “For both of us, China is our biggest trading partner. For both of us, China is our biggest security anxiety,” said Richard Marles, Australia’s deputy prime minister. His brief remarks on that touchy subject was at a briefing to mark the end of the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A war has been raging in Europe for the last year, but Dr Adrian Haack, head of the Adenauer Foundation office in India, believes it is the Indo-Pacific where the real dangers lie. In this conversation with Stratnews Global, Dr Haack referred to the geographic dimensions of the Indo-Pacific, which is an immense […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It would be extremely naïve and dangerous to assume that the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy initiative, is losing steam, says Dr Walter C Ladwig III, a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at King’s College, London. Dr Ladwig, who specialises in the US foreign policy, South Asian […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Cleo Paskal wears many hats. As a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Washington D.C., her focus is on the Indo-Pacific region, particularly India and the Pacific Islands. She is associated with several international security organisations including the Global Counter-Terrorism Council, and lectures at and briefs various security organisations and […]Read More
Delegation Of Arab-Islamic Foreign Ministers To Visit China A delegation consisting of Arab and Islamic foreign ministers will visit China from November 20 to 21, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning announced on Sunday. Members of the delegation include Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the past couple of weeks, Operation 1027—an alliance of three armed anti-junta groups in Myanmar which was formed on October 27—has intensified its offensive against the country’s military and gained more ground. To escape the fighting, thousands of Myanmarese have crossed the border and taken refuge in adjoining Mizoram. Ever since the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s stakes in the Maldives have never been higher. The recent election of Mohammad Muizzu as president, unseating the pro-India Mohd. Soli has strengthened the view that China will return along with all its attendant strategic games against India. But Vice Adm. Shekhar Sinha (Retd), former FOC-in-C of Western Naval Command, believes India […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As U.S. President Joe Biden met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping face to face after a year, it was “some of the most constructive and productive discussions we’ve had,” as the former put it. The United States would compete vigorously but responsibly with China “so it doesn’t veer into conflict or accidental conflict”, he […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a few weeks from now the world’s high table, the Conference of Parties or COP, for battling climate change will converge in Dubai. The run-up to the meeting has been marred by a dramatic turn in geopolitics—especially the spread of regional wars to the Middle East. Unfortunately, the outcome of this meeting […]Read More
Two weeks since Pakistan began expelling undocumented Afghans living in the country, over two lakh have crossed over into Afghanistan many with little other than the clothes on their backs, the daily numbers rose to 15,000 when border crossings in Balochistan province opened earlier this week. Pakistan claims those being expelled are the undocumented Afghans […]Read More
“India and the US are not allies but we are more than partners. It is a partnership plus,” says Lisa Curtis, Senior Fellow and Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Programme at the Centre for a New American Security. Curtis, who was interviewed by StratNews Global in Delhi recently, said the foundations for the India-US relationship were strong which has […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Myanmar army could be at the cross roads in its two-and-a-half year-long war against a coalition of ethnic rebel groups. It has suffered many reverses, seen military garrisons overrun, and has been unable to overcome low morale and defections. In fact, P M Heblikar, former special secretary to government who follows Myanmar […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of an ongoing border standoff with China that’s over three years old, India has “no option but to commence a dialogue with China, simply because you don’t have the luxury of being separated by oceans and continents,” says former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale. The other Quad partners have also entered […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The India-US 2+2 dialogue last week in Delhi was routine in many respects but such meetings are required to push bureaucracies and boost confidence on either side, says Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha, former Commander Western Fleet and head of Integrated Defence Staff. Admiral Sinha was answering questions on The Gist about the pace […]Read More
“The axis of the world has changed,” warned Ambassador Hardeep Puri in an interview with StratNews Global recently, pointing out that Hamas’s actions on Oct. 7 have no justification, but they also broke a convention that even acts of terror would be carried out in a “calibrated” and “restrained” manner. “What has happened till now is […]Read More
Senior Chinese, U.S. Economic Officials Meet, Oppose Decoupling China and the U.S. both stressed they do not seek decoupling as Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, also China’s lead person for China-U.S. economic and trade affairs, held multiple talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during his visit to the U.S. from November 8 to 12. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Building on the visits of PM Modi to the U.S. and President Biden to New Delhi earlier this year, the foreign and defence ministers of both countries met here on Friday under the 2+2 format that was instituted in 2019. They noted the substantial progress in transforming India-U.S. relations across domains, according to […]Read More
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