Taiwanese businessmen, scholars and visitors don’t know enough about India, largely because there are no Chinese language publications providing information about various aspects of India, says Mumin Chen, Minister in the Taiwan Representative Office in Delhi. Add to that India’s size and diversity, autonomous state governments, bureaucracy and red tape: result Taiwan’s investment in India […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands give India a distinct advantage due to their strategic location—close to the Malacca Strait, a potential chokepoint for China. Most of China’s oil imports from West Asia via the Indian Ocean pass through the Malacca Strait. Besides, the Andamans give India the opportunity to keep an eye on […]Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a number of key messages to put forward on day one of the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi, and one of them not surprisingly was to Pakistan. Speaking virtually in English, he warned that “proxy wars” and “unending terror attacks” were unabated and that world must now look towards “different solutions.” […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are home to India’s only tri-services command. Tasked with securing the huge stretch of Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) around the islands, the Andaman and Nicobar Command is now also keeping a hawk eye on Chinese activities in the Bay of Bengal. In this episode of ‘The Gist’, StratNews […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As geopolitics over the Indo-Pacific hots up, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands—India’s easternmost seaboard—find themselves in the midst of renewed focus and infrastructure development activities. Their location, close to the Malacca Straits, is a strategic asset as is their proximity to Indonesia and Thailand. In this episode of ‘The Gist’, StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief […]Read More
China launches digital yuan, challenges US$ China has introduced the “digital yuan”, making it the first currency to go virtual. It means the central bank will issue digital money to banks and thus onward to the common man. Users will have to download a digital wallet which generates a QR code which can then be […]Read More
NEW DELHI: One thing that stood out in the run-up to the just concluded assembly elections in Assam was the absence of insurgency dominating the popular discourse. Even political parties refrained from using it as a campaign tool. But rewind a couple of decades and ULFA was the buzzword, dominating the socio-political landscape in Assam and […]Read More
New Delhi: Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to the Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines in his talk with his counterpart Teodoro Locsin as tension continues to rise over the massing of People’s Republic of China maritime militia vessels(which Beijing claims are just fishing boats) in the South China Sea, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Simple though not a simpleton! There could be many ways to describe the late Manohar Parrikar, former defence minister and chief minister of Goa, but author and journalist Nitin A. Gokhale has a particular preference for those words, given his close relationship with the man widely credited with transforming an inefficient, hidebound and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last month, Pakistan integrated the second unit of the Karachi nuclear power plant with the national grid. This Chinese built reactor with an installed capacity of 1100 megawatts is the biggest of the six power plants that Pakistan now has. By building it, China, a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, has reneged […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The next round of corps commander-level talks between India and China on resolving remaining friction points in Eastern Ladakh is likely to take place on Friday, sources say even as Chinese PLA ground forces are once again seen to be preparing to move into the plains of Aksai Chin for what currently appears […]Read More
Late last month, a news report showcased India’s despatch of 100,000 doses of the indigenous Covaxin to Paraguay, a tiny country wedged between Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. The curious part is India does not have an embassy there, only an honorary consul who is a Paraguayan national. Clearly, if the country does not merit an […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar have discussed the whole gamut of ties, as the two countries wind up for the President Putin-Prime Minister Modi annual summit, which was postponed last year. The S-400 air defence system deal and the possibility of “additional” production of Russian […]Read More
New Delhi: Mozambique’s military says it has regained full control of the coastal town of Palma, more than a week after it was raided by militant Islamists linked to Daesh/ISIS, but why has the insurgency being continuing for three years?, is Cabo Delgado province a new frontline for terror in east Africa?, what does the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: He’s arguably India’s most loved soldier, an inspirational leader par excellence and India’s first Field Marshal. Sam Manekshaw was also known to be blunt and forthright, never afraid to speak his mind to the powers that be. He was India’s Army Chief in 1971 when India took just 13 days to beat the Pakistani […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Lobsang Sangay is no stranger to India or to the Tibetan cause he represents. In this exclusive chat with StratNews Global’s Surya Gangadharan, he answered questions on a range of topics including the ongoing election for a new Sikyong or president of the Central Tibetan Administration, who will succeed him. The second and […]Read More
New Delhi: The ‘Talking Point’, this week is China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visits to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Turkey, Oman, Bahrain and Iran and the signing of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership framework with Tehran. Jonathan Fulton, Assistant Professor, Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, Non-resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council and Alvite Singh Ningthoujam, Assistant Professor, […]Read More
DHAKA: It’s the golden jubilee year of Bangladesh’s formation, also 50 years of its diplomatic relations with India. Today, India-Bangladesh ties are in a ‘critically sweet spot’, says Tariq Karim, former Bangladeshi high commissioner to India. “We started off with a big bang, there was a lot of euphoria but the relationship then went up […]Read More
DHAKA: In the golden jubilee year of Bangladesh’s independence, its ties with India remain robust despite ups and downs. Last week, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a two-day visit to be part of the celebrations: this is Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary year as well. StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale who was […]Read More
NEW DELHI: By taking military action in 2020, China has clearly indicated that she does not desire a stable, balanced, forward looking relationship with India and that she is willing to use military coercion to resolve her disputes with India. All earlier bilateral agreements aimed at maintaining peace and tranquility in the India-China border areas have […]Read More
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