NEW DELHI: China’s Communist Party has been able to script a remarkable turnaround from its early clumsy handling of the pandemic, to the point today where it is seen as having done a more successful job than many other countries including India. That’s the word from Rana Mitter, director of the Oxford University China Studies […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Dr Greg Austin, Senior Fellow, Cyber, Space & Future Conflict, The International Institute for Strategic Studies(IISS), Professor, Cyber Security, Strategy & Diplomacy, University of New South Wales and Author, ‘Cybersecurity in China’ and Kazim Rizvi, Public-policy Entrepreneur, Founding Director, The Dialogue and Founding Partner, DeepStrat are in conversation with StratNews […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Delta variant is throwing up new challenges to a world already crippled by the pandemic. The UK particularly, is feeling the brunt. The British government had vaccinated over two-thirds of its population and Prime Minister Boris Johnson had promised that a roadmap towards a lockdown-free nation was on the cards. Instead, the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the Chinese Communist Party turns 100, it’s as much an occasion for celebration as also for introspection. It boasts a membership of over a 100 million but that has also led to a dilution in the party’s values. Xi Jinping is trying to control membership to stop dilution of the core ideology […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Iran’s newly elected president Ebrahim Raisi is considered an uncompromising hardliner by the West. He also has a controversial past. Raisi has been personally sanctioned by the US in 2019 for human rights violations as he sat on the infamous ‘death tribunals which authorised the killings of thousands of political prisoners. Considered to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “We’re here to stay,” Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said while inaugurating his country’s first embassy in the Gulf, in Abu Dhabi and then a consulate in Dubai in the highest-level visit by an Israeli official. The UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco normalised ties with Israel under former U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘Abraham […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The prime minister’s outreach on Kashmir last week was driven by a vision and a roadmap that has been in the works for some time, says Prof Amitabh Matto of Jawaharlal Nehru University. On The Gist with Surya Gangadharan, he underscored that in all these years, no Indian government has compromised on Kashmir. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There is a new vigour in India-EU relationship. After a very successful India-EU summit in May, both sides are now looking to implement the decisions taken at the summit. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is making special effort to reach out to as many European countries as possible. Currently in Italy for the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan may continue to agitate about the ‘Kashmir issue’ but what is often overlooked is that key Pakistani figures have themselves disputed their claim on Kashmir. As former ambassador Dinkar P Srivastava points out in his recent book, Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Control Islamabad’s uneasiness about Kashmir goes […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The drone strike on an air force station in Jammu appears to mark a new phase in India’s war against terrorism. The trouble is the Pakistani hand is only suspected, so Islamabad enjoys deniability. So much for the ceasefire on the Line of Control. India has again been caught with its pants down. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: This is “our 1861 moment,” Afghan President Ashraf Ghani repeatedly said in Washington, D.C. alongside his many-time political rival Abdullah Abdullah. “When President Lincoln entered Washington besieged, seemingly isolated, and on the verge of an actual war, his approach of unity, finding his Grant and Sherman, worked,” he said in public remarks during […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It had never happened on the world’s highest battlefield till the Indian Army decided to do it 34 years ago. The recapture of the Quaid Post by a small group of determined soldiers led by then Naib Subedar Bana Singh is counted among the finest military successes on the Siachen Glacier. And in […]Read More
‘Museum Power’ By 2035’ China plans to be a “real museum power” by 2035 and in this regard the central government has introduced new regulations for management of artifacts in state-owned museums. They will have to set up special departments to deal with collection of artifacts with steep fines prescribed for procuring items from unknown […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Despite statements from Qatari officials, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at a press conference has flat-out denied any back-channel talks are taking place. This comes a day after India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval proposed an action plan against Pakistan-based terrorist groups LeT and JeM at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: National security advisers tend to be low profile, it goes with the job. So when India’s NSA Ajit Doval met his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, not much emerged in the public sphere. One report said they discussed the situation in Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific (Asia-Pacific to the Russians). There was […]Read More
NEW DELHI: If the continuing standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh wasn’t bad enough, aggressor China is now blaming India for what it calls aggressive posturing. The Chinese foreign ministry has again asked for the border dispute not to be linked to the overall bilateral ties, something that India doesn’t […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani has unveiled an ambitious ₹75,000-crore plan to transform his company’s core energy business with the focus on green and renewable energy. At the company’s annual general meeting, he announced that work is underway on developing the Dhirubhai Green Energy Giga Complex on 5000 acres in Jamnagar. “We plan to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: At a meeting of the security chiefs of the eight-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), India’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval condemned terrorism and underlined the need to bring its perpetrators to book. With Pakistan’s NSA Moeed Yusuf listening in, Doval drove home the message loud and clear. Perpetrators of terrorism, including cross-border […]Read More
BENGALURU: The recent U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva came, to use a sporting metaphor, against the run of play. The two countries have recently been caught up in an escalating spiral of economic sanctions, mutual recriminations, and confrontations—directly or through proxies—in multiple geographies, across seas and continents. In the polarised politics of the U.S. today, the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist’, Raffaello Pantucci, Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, London discusses the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the in-person meeting of the secretaries of the security councils of the eight member states in Dushanbe. India’s […]Read More
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