CPC Officials Submit Reports On Their Work To Xi Senior officials of the Communist Party of China have recently submitted work reports to the CPC Central Committee and President Xi Jinping as part of an institutional arrangement to strengthen and uphold the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee. The officials shared in […]Read More
US Congress Targets South Africa Over Ties With Russia, China The US Congress is pressing President Joe Biden to take a tougher stance against South Africa over its deepening ties to Russia and China. In his first act as chairman of the newly revamped House Foreign Affairs panel on Africa, Republican John James of Michigan […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point’, Abdulla Shahid, the Foreign Minister of the Maldives and President of the 76th United Nations General Assembly Session in 2022 in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. “Maldives-India relations have never been better,” Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid says “commitments are being met by action”. On Indian financial […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Union Budget for 2023-24 has unambiguously reiterated India’s commitment to pivot to a green-growth trajectory. Accordingly, it has laid down the blueprint to enable this transition including the green hydrogen mission, energy storage, organic farming, coastal shipping and vehicle replacement. In short, this year’s essay from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Seattle is the first city in the United States to ban discrimination based on caste. The Seattle City Council approved an ordinance that amends the city’s municipal code to include caste as a protected class, alongside categories such as race, religion, and gender identity. A survey on caste discrimination conducted by Equality Labs […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the India-Asean relationship, one tends to hear and read more about Singapore, Thailand and Myanmar than Indonesia, which frankly is odd. This sprawling land mass of 17,000 islands and over 270 million people is the big guy in the region with vast natural resources. And in a low profile way, Indonesia has […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Dr Garima Mohan, Senior Fellow in the Asia programme at the German Marshall Fund of the United States(GMF), where she leads the work on India and heads the India Trilateral Forum based in GMF’s offices in Berlin, in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Dr Garima Mohan […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The war between Russia and Ukraine is now into its second year and neither side is giving up just yet. Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed the West for starting the war; the West has been supporting Ukraine with monetary aid and military equipment. The Russians did suffer initial setbacks. Russia made hasty decisions; […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The recent one-on-one meeting between National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow may have come as a surprise to many but it only reinforces the confidence the Indian political leadership at the highest level has in him, and an endorsement of sorts from world leaders. One of […]Read More
The Afghan Taliban have expressed their willingness to disarm the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and relocate its members from the Pak-Afghan border but with a condition that Islamabad will bear the cost of the proposed plan. This was revealed at the meeting of the Central Apex Committee, presided by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday, […]Read More
The provincial government of Sindh in Pakistan has imposed a three-month ban on carrying and displaying weapons in the province, reported Express News. According to the notification issued by the government, the ban will be effective immediately. It noted that Police Rangers and law enforcement agencies will be exempted from this order. Heads of all […]Read More
Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday said that the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) had received $700 million from the China Development Bank (CDB) in a much-needed boost to forex reserves as the country grapples with a worsening economic crisis. Earlier this month, the country’s foreign exchange reserves slipped to an alarming level of […]Read More
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described the controversial Confucius Institutes run by the Chinese Communist Party as “propaganda centres” while calling on Australia to exercise more caution when engaging with Beijing. Confucius Institutes have been touted as a Chinese cultural and language programme but the centres have been under increasing scrutiny for their […]Read More
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe won’t sign verdicts delivered by any court of law in the country to implement capital punishment, the attorney general has told the Supreme Court. A five judge bench is hearing a bunch of petitions filed against resumption of death penalty proposed in 2019 by then President Maithripala Sirisena. On June […]Read More
Chinese Navy To Recruit Female Non-Military Aircraft Pilots For The First Time The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) will recruit female cadet pilots for the first time ever to fly carrier-based aircraft in its recently launched recruiting program. The navy will expand the selection scope of pilot corps from ordinary high school students and […]Read More
New Delhi: Russia re-invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. One year on, Ambassador D.B. Venkatesh Varma, India’s Envoy to Russia from September 2018 to October 2021 speaks to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The former envoy shares his analysis of where the war is currently, where it is heading, mistakes, miscalculations, differing narratives, […]Read More
New Delhi: Exactly a year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in our special series on the war, Ambassador D.B.Venkatesh Varma, India’s Envoy to Russia from September 2018 to October 2021 in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ambassador Varma assesses “India has acquitted itself very well” during “a year of considerable stress […]Read More
NEW DELHI: If the Covid-19 pandemic came as a blow to global health, consequent lockdowns in various countries disrupted global supply chains. Among the commodities hit big time were critical minerals, which are in demand for making semiconductors, batteries for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, etc in the globe’s quest for clean energy. These […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Three years ago, India launched its first homegrown semi-high-speed train it connected New Delhi and Varanasi via Kanpur, Allahabad. Officially, it is called Vande Bharat. But at the Integral Coach Factor in Chennai, where the ambitious project to create a modern state-of-the-art train, it was christened Train-18—so that the staff working on the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Kuril Islands are a chain of volcanic islands stretching across 1150 Km (715 miles) from the northeast of Japan’s Hokkaido to the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Japan claims sovereignty over the four southernmost islands— Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Habomai Islands— which it refers to as the Northern Territories. However, […]Read More
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