NEW DELHI: India figures extensively in a policy paper titled ‘Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China’ released by the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative American think tank. In his keynote address before the launch of the 143-page paper, Republican Senator from Florida Marco Rubio spoke about how China had become increasingly aggressive […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “It’s a sad story.” That is how Claude Arpi, author, columnist and a leading authority on Tibet began his talk at Delhi’s India International Centre. Claude, who is a Distinguished Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, was delivering the 33rd Annual Padmapani Lecture organised by Tibet House, founded […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The May 2020 clashes in Galwan between the PLA and Indian forces and the subsequent clashes and face-offs along the Line of Actual Control in both the eastern and western sectors raise two important questions. What made China violate the agreements which had ensured a kind of peace along the border for almost […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Why is the U.S. Senate working on a bipartisan non-binding resolution recognising Arunachal Pradesh as part of India? The U.S. government has, for the last 60 years, held that Arunachal is part of India. Arun Singh, former ambassador to the U.S., (2015-16) believes that the “the draft resolution is a political message,” which […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The United Kingdom aims to revise its strategic priorities in order to respond to the rapidly changing events across the world. This was laid out in a policy paper titled “Integrated Review Refresh 2023: Responding to a more contested and volatile world” which was tabled before the British Parliament on March 13. Broadly, […]Read More