NEW DELHI: Japan is a very “under-rated low-key player” but it’s the world’s third biggest economy and its self-defence forces are very “sophisticated”, Dr Rupakjyoti Borah, Associate Professor, Sharda University tells StratNews Global Associate Editor, Amitabh P. Revi, Japan is “too important to be missed” and “it’s high time”, America, Japan and India along with […]Read More

NEW DELHI: “India has rebranded itself in the Gulf,” and like a lot of countries has “taken advantage of U.S. security architecture,” to play a much greater role in recent years, Jonathan Fulton, Assistant Professor at Abu Dhabi’s Zayed University tells Amitabh P. Revi, StratNews Global Associate Editor in this interview. “India is seen as […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) suggests a connectivity corridor, which is a “dubious” idea, academic and author Jeremy A. Garlick tells StratNews Global Associate Editor, Amitabh P. Revi. Similarly, “Gwadar port breaking China’s Malacca dilemma is ridiculous” and a “non-starter.” The Associate Professor at the University of Economics, Prague says it’s Beijing’s “geopolitical […]Read More

NEW DELHI: “China’s ties with Pakistan go back decades. If I’m sitting in New Delhi, a Beijing-Tehran strategic deal is a big geopolitical win and certainly not good news for India,” Alex Vatanka, the Director and Senior Fellow, Iran Programme, Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. tells StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Though India’s involvement in […]Read More

NEW DELHI: “While a lot of people in the U.S. have been whispering about a TikTok ban, there is a lot of fear of actually going there. The Indian government did it and the sky didn’t fall,” says Jacob Helberg, Senior Advisor at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Centre. It should serve as a reminder to […]Read More

NEW DELHI: It’s the strongest proof yet that atrocities in the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang fulfill a UN genocide convention criteria, says China Studies Academic Dr Adrian Zenz about his research published this week on birth prevention and mass female sterilisation of Uyghur and other minorities. Speaking to Stratnew Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The top Chinese parliamentary body, the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, is rushing to finalise and pass Hong Kong’s national security law ahead of the July 1, the 23rd anniversary of the former British colony’s return to Chinese sovereignty. Wilson Leung, a barrister and activist speaks to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Noughts And Crosses: India-China LAC with Academic and Author Professor M. Taylor Fravel and Amitabh P. Revi, Associate Editor, StratNews Global discusses the differing perceptions of the LAC, China and India’s military strategies and the Russia-India-China virtual meet today between the foreign ministers of the three countries. M. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and […]Read More

NEW DELHI: A second round of nearly 11 hours of negotiations have taken place between 14 Corps Commander Lt General Harinder Singh and his Chinese counterpart Maj General Lin Liu with India seeking of status quo ante in the Finger 4-8 area in Pangong Tso. James Palmer, Foreign Policy Deputy Editor speaks to StratNews Global […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Is it sheer coincidence that June 16 marked the third anniversary of the beginning of the 73-day Dolam standoff? Not just that, there are eerie similarities between the killing of Indian soldiers in Galwan and the 1969 killing of Soviet border guards by the Chinese. Ex-Foreign Secretary Nirupama Menon Rao recounts a Soviet […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Pressure against pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong is increasing ahead of the expected enactment of the Chinese national security law. They say they are being intensely monitored and can be arbitrarily arrested if and when the law is cleared. Thousands of people in Hong Kong also defied a ban to mark the 31st […]Read More