NEW DELHI: The U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission (USCC), a bipartisan body created by the American Congress has submitted its 2020 Annual Report and policy recommendations. In Chapter 3, the report says, “Some evidence suggested the Chinese government had planned the (Galwan) incident, potentially including the possibility for fatalities.” Under key findings in the same […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The burst of activity in Indian foreign policy requires sustained attention because the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will remain relentless, says South Asia analyst Professor Sumit Ganguly, adding, there is a “strategic design to counter the efforts of the PRC. These are not just idiosyncratic moves on the part of the government.” He […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China has made “a solid contribution to economic development” in the African continent, but we need to be equally candid about the whole question of debt,” says Dr Witney W. Schneidman, Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs. He points to one example of Zambia “skipping its ($42.5 million) coupon […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I expect the Biden administration to uphold the Trump administration’s precedent with regard to arms sales to Taiwan,” says Charlie Lyons Jones at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in Canberra, adding, “it would be really helpful for bolstering deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.” The Trump administration notified Congress of military deals to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Why is 2019 Nobel peace laureate Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed conducting a ‘war’ on the country’s Tigray region? Theodore Murphy, Director of the Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, explains the genesis of what PM Abiy describes as a ‘campaign to uphold the rule of law’, the “explosion of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Was there a secret Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that was outed by Israeli media? The Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud may have denied it in a tweet, but Netanyahu himself hasn’t, saying, “I […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Russia’s 25-year deal for a Sudanese port on the Red Sea is a “great place to give historic ties with India a little more meat on the skeleton,” says Maxim A. Suchkov, Senior Fellow and Associate Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). This week, Russia announced an agreement to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Indian peacekeepers did an “excellent job” during riots in Renk, a town in the Upper Nile region of South Sudan, when mobs burnt down an NGO base and threatened to attack a World Food Programme warehouse last month, says David Shearer, the head of UNMISS, the UN Mission in the country. They mobilised […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Trump administration announcing U.S. troop cut in Afghanistan to 2,500 by January 15, 2021 was “expected” and ” Afghan security forces have been preparing, carrying out more than 95 per cent of all counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics operations, since 2014,” says M. Ashraf Haidari, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka. President-elect Joe Biden and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In Thailand, “the momentum of protests has been sustained since July,” and “concurrent outside Bangkok” despite Covid-19 or “few signs of compromise from the Government” but those demanding pro-democracy and monarchical reform “know it’s a long-term game,” says Tan Hui Yee, Indochina Bureau Chief of ‘The Straits Times’. Students as young as 14 […]Read More
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