NEW DELHI: The new IT rules that took effect earlier this week has pitted the government against social media platforms such as Twitter and Whatsapp who say it could compromise data encryption and, as an extension, user privacy. The government insists it’s committed to the right to privacy of its citizens but at the same […]Read More
Xi Swears Fealty To Marxism Just in case people had forgotten, President Xi Jinping shot off a letter of congratulations to the World Symposium for Marxist Political Parties, an event sponsored by the International Department of the CPC Central Committee. In the letter Xi said that Marxism has been the guiding ideology of the Communist […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s five-day visit to the U.S. is the first Indian Cabinet ministerial trip to New York and Washington since Joe Biden took over as President. On ‘Talking Point‘, Akriti Vasudeva, Research Analyst at the Stimson Centre and Editor-at-large at online magazine South Asian Voices and Atman M. Trivedi, who […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Amidst speculation that Islamabad and Washington are in talks to allow U.S. bases in Pakistan to facilitate counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan once foreign troops withdraw, the Taliban has warned Afghanistan’s neighbours to not allow what it calls a ‘historic mistake’. Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has told parliament his government would never […]Read More
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, currently on a visit to the U.S., was interviewed by former U.S. National Security Adviser HR McMaster. The questions ranged from the pandemic to China, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He warned that in the post-Covid world, there is need for better balance, less risk in terms of production and supply chains […]Read More
China’s new white paper on Tibet is the 15th in a series that began in 1992, and one can presume more will happen. At one level it would appear to reflect China’s confidence in its hold over Tibet and what it has accomplished since it invaded and occupied the roof of the world 70 years […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Vietnam has sent “another 1262 oxygen cylinders, 200 oxygen generators and 75 ventilators on an Indian Naval Ship from Ho Chi Minh city to Chennai,” Ambassador Pham Sanh Chau, Vietnam’s Envoy to India tells StratNews Global. Speaking to Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi, the Ambassador also talks about the Quad(Australia, Japan, India, U.S.) […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The pandemic could well rank as the ultimate whodunit! Was it the work of Chinese scientists trying to develop a bioweapon, as many widely believe? If that is indeed the case, did the Chinese do it alone? Was there international collaboration which the Chinese benefited from? There is no doubt that the pandemic […]Read More
There’s a lot of baggage in the India China relationship, says Prof Bali Deepak of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. In a chat on Books Corner about his latest work India & China: Beyond the binary of friendship and enmity, he argues that the 1962 war is only one element of this baggage. The current economic […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A trade deal between the European Union and China that was clinched after seven years of negotiations has now been put on hold by the EU parliament. This after China sanctioned a host of EU officials in retaliation for sanctions imposed by the EU on four Chinese officials over human rights abuses in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: May 29 marks one year since the start of protests in Belarus against President Aleksandr Lukashenko. A harsh crackdown last year has intensified after his disputed August 2020 reelection. Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist since 1994, won his sixth term in office. Forced into exiled, opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the dynamics of war and conflict keep changing and with associated costs escalating, there’s increasing focus on a lean and mean military by optimising the use of assets and personnel. The appointment of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) two years ago was seen as the first step in that direction. Now there […]Read More
Chinese Vaccines Can Handle ‘3,000 Indian Covid Strains’ China’s health authorities have rushed to assure the public that their vaccines will be able to handle the ‘Indian variant’. This comes after local media reported on May 5, of 18 cases of double mutant coronavirus among Chinese nationals, living near Delhi, who had returned home via […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire is in place after 11 days of Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rocket attacks in the worst fighting between the two sides since 2014. At least 232 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombs, including 65 children, Gaza officials say. 12 people in Israel, including two children, were killed by Hamas […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar stated that the future of the India-China relationship would not only depend on whether Beijing was willing to follow previous agreements, but also on whether it was willing to work to “stabilise” the relationship. Pointing to history, he said not only did it take 26 years for the […]Read More
There is an element of undercounting in the figures of Covid infection cases and deaths, says Dr. K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India. But he also believes they show a trend which points to a steady decline. What is important now is for the governments at the Centre and States […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With reports that fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas is ‘expected to end on thursday’, Ambassador Michael Oren, Former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Ex-Israeli Envoy to the U.S. tells StratNews, “while pressure is mounting on us from the United States and from parts of the international community, Israel […]Read More
Disintegration of traditional political forces and not distrust between majority and minority communities is destabilising Sri Lanka 12 years after the end of the Eeelam War IV, says analyst and Head of the Department of Defence and Strategic studies at the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University in Colombo in a conversation with StratNews Global […]Read More
There may be no imminent end to the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, but it may not last beyond the 50 days of 2014. In a chat with StratNews Global, Prof. PR Kumaraswamy, well known West Asia specialist at Jawaharlal Nehru University, believes that this is an opportunity for the armed group Hamas, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The bomb attack targeting Former Maldives President and current Majlis Speaker Mohamed Nasheed has brought the spotlight back on the epithet that the country, at one point, had one of the world’s largest number of ‘ISIS’ jihadists per capita in Iraq and Syria. On ‘The Gist’, N Sathiya Moorthy, Distinguished Fellow and Head-Chennai […]Read More
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