NEW DELHI: Earlier this week, Nepal’s Supreme Court delivered an order like never before, one that left no room for political manoeuvre by caretaker Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. A five-member Constitution Bench headed by the Chief Justice reinstated the House of Representatives for the second time in five months and ordered that Nepali Congress […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Ali Yawar Adili, Country Director & Researcher, Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. “Political logjams over appointments are just a case in point in terms of disunity and how it could affect the planning and mobilisation against the Taliban,” he says, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Jamila Husain, Deputy Editor of the Daily Mirror in Sri Lanka in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Less than a week after Basil Rajapaksa, younger brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as the finance minister, India’s High Commissioner Gopal […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the popular narrative about China being wily, manipulative and a bully, it’s easy to overlook that Chinese diplomacy and commerce, even its media, have had to adjust their strategies, working methods and culture to suit the countries they are operating in. This is so even in the case of China’s ‘Iron Brother’ […]Read More
NEW DELHI: More questions than answers ever since the Ethiopian federal government in Addis Ababa ordered the withdrawal of its forces from the northern region of Tigray after nearly 10 months of bitter fighting and alleged atrocities committed by both sides. In this conversation on The Gist, Samuel Getachew, a journalist based in the Ethiopian […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In recent years, ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy has come to be associated with aggressive Chinese diplomats who have fought, argued, and tried to bully foreign governments, media personnel, think tank practitioners and politicians abroad. Their behaviour is complete anti-thesis of what trained and practicing diplomats generally do. Instead of winning friends and influencing people, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: If militaries the world over have struggled to achieve jointness, it won’t be a cakewalk in India. Getting the three forces—which have a history of working in silos—to work together is tough and voices of discontent have already surfaced. Comments by the Chief of Defence Staff that the air force is a support […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pandemic cases have recently soared in southeast and east Asia, ensuring that many nations planning to roll back lockdowns and other restrictive measures will have to think again. The first biggest sign that things were going wrong was Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga announcing a state of emergency in his country till August […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In keeping with its aim of having a lean and mean military and bringing about increased cohesion among the three services, the government created the post of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) last year and installed Gen. Bipin Rawat. The next stage of higher defence reforms aims at creation of joint commands which […]Read More
Weibo’s Netizens Urge Trump To Join China’s web users are offering former US president Donald Trump a “new playground” on Sina Weibo after the deactivation of his Facebook and Twitter accounts. Describing Trump as their favourite “American comedian,” 78% of 4,500 users who took part in a survey, said they “very much hope” that Trump […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the Chinese Communist Party celebrated its 100th anniversary last week, President Xi Jinping praised the party to the high heavens, crediting it for all good that has happened to China. He even issued threats: foreign powers would have their ‘heads bashed’ if they tried to bully China. In the run-up to the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador P.S. Raghavan, Former Head of the National Security Advisory Board and an Ex-Envoy to Russia and Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Centre discuss Russia-India ties with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. India’s External Affairs Minister(EAM) Dr S. Jaishankar after meeting his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “The Taliban is moving against major strategic provinces in the north…giving it the upper hand..so that no security force recruitment can take place, but they’re also cutting out future opposition,” Bilal Sarwary, one of Afghanistan’s best journalists tells StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. On Pakistan he says, “mistrust is only growing. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a little over three months from now, the Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention will hold its ninth review meeting against the background of the pandemic and amid widespread suspicions that it was engineered by Chinese scientists in Wuhan. Despite that, China in tandem with ‘Iron Brother’ Pakistan is pushing forward a proposal […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Bilal Sarwary, Senior Journalist in Afghanistan discusses the situation on-the-ground with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The Taliban has launched an offensive on the north-western provincial capital of Badghis, bordering Turkmenistan after advances in Badakhshan, on the border with Tajikistan. This even as Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif […]Read More
NEW DELHI: No more back channel talks with India, with that broadside, Pakistan’s national security adviser Moeed Yusuf appears to have dumped the gains from the recent thaw with India. Most notably, he has put into question the ceasefire on the Line of Control now a little over four months old. In this conversation on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Of late, internal discussions in the Indian military about creation of theatre commands to bring in optimisation and synergy has spilled out in the public domain causing huge outrage and generating a lot of acrimonious debate amongst military veterans. What is the reality? Is India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen Bipin […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the 100th year of its existence, the Chinese Communist Party is omnipresent when it comes to wielding influence over everyone in the country. But this party has really not had a great deal of success over its 100 years, says China analyst Bonnie Girard. 1989 was a turning point both for the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Thirty five years after it was signed, Mizo Accord remains the most successful political accord signed between the Government of India and an insurgent group. Mizoram, known in the 1960s as Lushai Hills district, was part of undivided Assam. At the heart of the trouble was a famine caused by rodents and made […]Read More
Guangzhou Mulls 5,000 Capacity Quarantine Station The land of the Wuhan virus is going all out to stop the Delta variant of the virus from reaching its shores. Guangzhou, which receives nearly 90 percent of China’s international passengers, plans to build an international health station with 5,000 independent rooms to quarantine international arrivals. China’s top […]Read More
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