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
NEW DELHI: “Thank You, Gautam Sawang, you should be part of this celebration since you nurtured me professionally in Liberia,” says United Nations Woman Police Officer of the Year, Assistant Superintendent Doreen Mazuba Malambo. Damodar Gautam Sawang is the current Director General of Police of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and was Police Commissioner […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Austria is no longer “the island of the blessed,” in terms of being spared from terrorist attacks and has been “caught by surprise,” says Velina Tchakarova, Director at Vienna’s Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES). Kujtim Fejzulai, a 20-year-old Austrian and North Macedonian citizen, a suspected Daesh supporter armed with an […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I can’t forget the picture of two of my colleagues, from the navy and air force, and I walking off the Malé jetty, It was a classic tri-service operation,” says Lt Gen. Vinod Bhatia (Retd), who was the Brigade Major 50(I) Parachute Brigade during Operation Cactus that put down the 1988 coup in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India and the U.S. have signed the last foundational agreement BECA (Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement), which allows for expanded geospatial information sharing between the two armed forces. Four other agreements were also reached at the third 2+2 ministerial meet between U.S. Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Over 78 per cent of Chileans have voted “to get rid of the last vestige of the Pinochet dictatorship—its charter,” says John W. Bartlett, ‘The Guardian’ correspondent in Santiago. On October 25, the country voted for a 155-member constitutional assembly, which must feature an equal number of men and women elected by the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Armenia and Azerbaijan have been blaming each other for not respecting a ceasefire that was agreed to with the U.S. in a trilateral meeting and kicked in at 08:00 a.m. local time (12:00 a.m. EDT) on October 26, 2020. Leyla Abdullayeva, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, says “Armenian Armed Forces blatantly violated the ceasefire, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s a “lot of anger” after reported law enforcement firing killed an unconfirmed 12 people in street protests in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, says senior journalist Philip Obaji Jr., adding “this is not the end though the demonstrators’ momentum” has fallen after curfew and restrictions were imposed. Speaking from Abuja to StratNews Global […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Vietnam and India’s defence relationship has the “potential to go further down the road” and has “room for development,” says Dr Le Dinh Tinh, Director General of the Institute of Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies in Hanoi. India has been exploring Brahmos supersonic missile transfers to third countries since 2014 and Russia’s Deputy […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has sounded a clear message to China while visiting Vietnam on his first foreign trip after taking over from Shinzō Abe last month. After reaching security and economic agreements with Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, he announced “an agreement in principle on the transfer of defence equipment […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Unprecedented Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) activity is very dangerous right now,” Captain James Fanell (Retd), the former Director Intelligence and Information Operations, Pacific Fleet warns as the U.S. Navy celebrated its 245th birthday on October 13. His public warnings about China’s aggressive maritime ambitions in 2014 got him reassigned in the […]Read More
New Delhi: “Tension between different countries impacts us adversely. We are aware of that,” Dr Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation (with the Taliban) tells StratNews Global on the India-China standoff. “Can we do anything about it? Absolutely not. We have to deal with our own situation and hope for a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Should they (India) engage with the Taliban, we won’t have a problem with that,” Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the Afghan High Council for National Reconciliation, told StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi in an exclusive chat. He made it clear he hadn’t “raised the issue or encouraged it” in his meetings […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Chinese Communist Party “really fears the combined diplomatic strength” of the Quad (U.S., Japan, Australia and India) says Lt. Gen. Frederick Benjamin Hodges (Retd), former commander U.S. Army in Europe and Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at CEPA (Centre for European Policy Analysis). As he put it, “If the Quad brings along […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With the Armenia-Azerbaijan military conflict showing no sign of de-escalation, the former has released pictures of one of its Sukhoi-25 warplanes which it said was shot down by a Turkish F-16 fighter jet over Armenian airspace, killing the pilot. Yerevan says the F-16 flew from the ‘Ganja’ airport in Azerbaijan. Turkey and Azerbaijan […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Azerbaijan is “preparing the ground for launching aggression on the territory of the Republic of Armenia” with the Azerbaijan Defence Ministry in Baku “spreading disinformation” that Armenia is “shelling from the territory of the Republic,” Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Anna A. Naghdalyan says. In an exclusive chat with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “India doesn’t need to articulate clear support” to Armenia in military clashes with Azerbaijan despite Yerevan’s public support on Kashmir and Baku siding with Pakistan and Turkey on the issue, says former Indian Ambassador to Armenia, Dr T. Suresh Babu. A status quo on the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh area suits Armenia, he said, adding he “doesn’t […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As conflicts go, the latest round of bloodletting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave has underscored the region’s deep ethnic fissures and rivalries. It’s not clear which side started the fighting, but some facts are indisputable. Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but is dominated by Armenian Christians who […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Armenia and Azerbaijan are blaming each other for air and artillery attacks on each other’s forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region that began on the morning of September 27. As both of them have “rearmed with highly sophisticated military hardware over the last 15 years, they can strike at targets deep inside each […]Read More
NEW DELHI: We can give people a better sense of what’s happening around them at a time of extreme confusion and a motivation to act. Because ultimately, the future is what we make it, says ‘Terra Incognita’ co-author Dr Robert Muggah. Professor Ian Goldwin added, “We are heading for a very dangerous and less prosperous […]Read More
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