NEW DELHI: Defying warnings from China, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, did arrive in Taiwan on Tuesday evening local time. Pelosi, the first U.S. Speaker to visit China in 25 years, was accorded a warm welcome. China reacted by imposing sanctions against several Taiwanese exports to the mainland and announced that it […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Allegations that the government of Afghanistan is systematically targeting individuals associated with the former administration are unfounded, says Abdul Qahar Balkhi, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Speaking to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi on ‘The Gist’ about girls being denied secondary education, he insisted that Afghanistan had the right to enact laws […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Afghan cadets who return home after receiving military training in India will be integrated into the Afghan security forces, says Abdul Qahar Balkhi, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Speaking to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi on ‘The Gist’, Balkhi revealed that the Afghan government and India are exploring infrastructure projects […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Apart from the missile strike itself, there’s nothing straight forward in the killing of Al Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul over the weekend. Here are some of the questions that come up. Like Osama bin Laden who the Americans claimed was “found” hiding in Abbotabad, Pakistan, and killed in a US special forces […]Read More
NEW DELHI: How exactly would China go about an operation to spy on Indian targets? Influence political parties, launch cyber-attacks, support insurgents as they did with ULFA, use Confucius institutes etc., says French investigative journalist and author Roger Faligot. In this chat with StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, the author of the book Chinese Spies: From […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Espionage, an inalienable part of the Chinese Communist Party’s strong-arm tactics, has been used differently over the years by successive Chinese leaders beginning with Mao Zedong. So what about Xi Jinping?The problem with Xi is that he wants to do everything at the same time, says French investigative journalist and author Roger Faligot. […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist’, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs(MoFA), Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan(IEA) in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Editor’s Note: This interview was recorded hours before U.S. President Joe Biden announced, “on Saturday, at my direction, the United States successfully conducted an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed the emir of al-Qa’ida: […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Be it enforcing COVID-induced lockdowns, managing restive regions such as Xinjiang, policing the cyberspace for anti-establishment posts or keeping an eye on dissidents both in China and abroad, the Chinese Communist Party resorts to the liberal use of surveillance aided by technology. And espionage has been part of Chinese statecraft, starting from the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: More than a decade after its construction began, INS Vikrant, the first Made in India aircraft carrier, has been handed over to the Navy. It places India in a select club of countries that have the expertise to design and build such ships. Here’s a primer on the multi-thousand-crore asset.Read More
NEW DELHI: Rebuilding the economy and restoring public confidence in governance, the new government in Sri Lanka has a tough job on its hands as the country experiences an unprecedented financial crisis. How did things come to such a pass? And what does the road ahead look like? In this episode of ‘Ask Nitin’, StratNews […]Read More
Pakistan’s Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has requested the U.S. administration to help secure an early dispersal of a tranche of bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stabilise the dwindling economy of Pakistan. According to security sources, the army chief spoke by phone with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman earlier this […]Read More
In a call that lasted over two hours, U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed Taiwan among other things. There was a stark difference in the versions of the releases that both countries put out. The Chinese foreign ministry made it clear at the outset that it was Biden who had […]Read More
For the first time, a population census has found that there are more women than men in Bangladesh. For every 100 females, there is currently around 99 males, according to the country’s sixth census the results of which were made public this week. It found that the country has a population of around 16.5 crore, […]Read More
The Pakistani government has decided to legislate on the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction on suo motu notices and the powers of the chief justice to constitute benches among others. Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said that a parliamentary committee will be formed on judicial reforms. The move came after the blow to the Shehbaz Sharif-led ruling coalition, as […]Read More
The Pakistani finance ministry has warned that the prevailing political unrest was causing governance problems and intensifying market uncertainties already caused by low forex reserves and external pressures. “Inflationary and external sector risks are building macroeconomic imbalances in the economy. Furthermore, the ongoing political unrest is increasing economic uncertainty, which is causing the rupee to depreciate […]Read More
China’s Schools Tell Kids To Ask Their Grandparents To Get Vaccinated Several schools are linking students’ performance evaluations or even registration to their grandparents’ vaccination records. A screenshot of an announcement by Xuelang Middle School in the eastern city of Wuxi, required junior school freshmen to show the vaccination certificates of their grandparents aged 60 […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point’, Ambassador Asoke Mukerji, India’s Former UN Permanent Representative, Ex-Envoy to Kazakhstan and the diplomat who opened India’s Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen Missions and Temur Umarov, Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Fellow, OSCE Academy, Bishkek and an Expert on China, Russia and Central Asia in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) […]Read More
NEW DELHI : Ten days ago India crossed a milestone in Covid vaccinations: over 2 billion and counting. As of now, over 97% of the adult population has received one dose and 90% two doses. The clock is now ticking on how quickly India can do the government mandated precautionary third dose. In this conversation […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India moved a step closer to getting 5G services with the auction of 5G spectrum. If all goes well, 5G services will be launched by the end of the year, propelling this country into the same or similar league comprising 5G nations. In this conversation on The Gist, Jaijit Bhattacharya, tech entrepreneur and […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist‘, Ambassador Vivek Katju, India’s Former Envoy To Afghanistan and Former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs(MEA) in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ambassador Katju discusses the Tashkent International Conference on ‘Afghanistan: Security and Economic Development‘. India and more than 20 countries and international organisations are taking part. […]Read More
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