Nepal’s grandstanding over a constitutional amendment that would ‘incorporate’ Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura has impressed no one in Delhi. The view is Nepal can go ahead with its amendment but the territories will continue to remain in India. Lipulekh/Kalapani is important because these provide entry into Tibet (apart from facilitating pilgrims heading to Mount Kailash). […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A roadmap for de-escalating the LAC standoff is in place after Indian and Chinese military commanders met on June 6, as StratNews Global reported earlier today. But what explains the confrontation that began over a month ago? The Chinese have an agenda and I don’t think the current chapter has ended, says China […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Military commanders of India and China have agreed on a roadmap for a phased de-escalation of forces from current standoff points in Ladakh. This was worked out at the meeting of senior Army Commanders of both sides on June 6th. With exclusive details based on numerous conversations, Nitin Gokhale, Editor-in-Chief StratNewsGlobal, tells you […]Read More
The Delhi-Canberra strategic relationship may be rocking after the Modi-Morrison summit last week but there was a time when bilateral ties had hit rock-bottom. This was shortly after the Pokhran-II nuclear tests of 1998 when Australia, eagerly followed in the footsteps of the U.S. in imposing harsh sanctions on India, severing both diplomatic and military […]Read More
Editor’s note: This is a live unedited stream from Bandar Abbas, Iran and may experience technical network issues. NEW DELHI: Over 200 Indians are being brought back from Iran on board the Indian Naval amphibious warship INS Shardul. The first batch of 200 plus fishermen from Gujarat are being repatriated on a 1650 km journey from […]Read More
The Nepal government may be trying its best to pressure India into discussing territorial disputes over Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura but New Delhi seems in no hurry to accept Kathmandu’s demand for foreign secretary-level talks. It’s told Kathmandu the issue will be discussed between the foreign secretaries once the two countries have dealt with Covid-19. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan, like the rest of the world, has been busy battling the Covid-19 pandemic with the numbers having spiked ever since the government lifted the lockdown on May 31. By Saturday morning, according to the Pak government, the total number of Covid-19 positive cases had surged to 93,983, with 4,734 cases being reported […]Read More
NEW DELHI: How has India’s foreign policy changed since Narendra Modi took charge as prime minister in 2014? And what has it achieved? There’s some continuity with the foreign policy of the earlier government (led by Manmohan Singh) but it aspires to be transformational, says Australian academic Dr Ian Hall, speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the last few days, TikTok, the app developed by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, with a huge following in India, has dropped many notches in the popularity stakes, from number 5 to 10 in the App playstore. The drop coincided with the India-China standoff in Ladakh. China’s Global Times was quick to notice and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s a Chinese ploy that’s six decades old but still in practice. And it has to do with deceit. Their creeping advances began in the mid- and late-1950s and, by the 1962 war, China had occupied major parts of Aksai Chin. If they had intruded a foot, they readily agreed to recede an inch […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s 14 Corps Commander meets the chief of China’s Southern Xinjiang Military District on June 6 to try and resolve the standoff between the Indian and People’s Liberation Army in Ladakh. ‘Talking Point‘ with Lt. Gen Susheel Gupta, the former Deputy Chief of Army Staff and Nitin Gokhale, Founder and Editor-in-Chief StratNews Global and BharatShakti […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The quelling of student protests at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 31 years ago remains one of the bloodiest episodes in contemporary Chinese history. What was the trigger and how did the violent end come about? Former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale, who was a young diplomat at the Indian embassy in Beijing in 1989, shares […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Why is it that some portions on the northern bank of Pangong lake often see Indian and Chinese troops coming face to face? It has to do with differing perceptions of both the troops with regard to the Line of Actual Control (LAC), says Col. S Dinny (retd), who has served as the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Tit-for-tat: after India expelled two Pakistan High Commission staffers on Sunday for spying and asked them to leave the country within 24 hours, the Pak foreign office in Islamabad summoned the Indian Cd’A on Monday and issued a demarche protesting the action. The two Pakistanis—Abid Hussain Abid, assistant in the trade fair section and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With an unannounced ceasefire largely holding in Afghanistan, is there hope for a reduction in bloodshed? Are the Taliban and an Afghan team moving towards negotiating a future political structure? How does the U.S. continuing troop withdrawal affect the government’s position? And should India open a public channel to the Taliban before intra-Afghan […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Chinese ingress breaching the Line Of Actual Control (LAC) is a yearly phenomenon but this time the size of the PLA troops involved in the standoff is bigger in Ladakh. Amid conflicting media reports—some alleging invasion by the Chinese and others saying this is a seasonal occurrence—in this edition of ‘Simply Nitin’, StratNews […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Rattled by huge protests that erupted in Hong Kong last year over a proposed immigration law that ultimately led to it being junked, China has now introduced a draft national security law for Hong Kong that would bypass the city’s legislature and severely curb personal freedoms and, in effect, mean the end of […]Read More
Top Indian officials have gone on record indicating that China was at fault for instigating Nepal on the Lipulekh road. But Beijing sees Nepal as the conduit to enter the Indian market, so logically it would be careful about what it did. Now it seems the Nepalis were alerted to the Lipulekh road by a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Amid an unprecedented spurt in Chinese transgressions at various places in Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), former Northern Army Commander Lt Gen DS Hooda (retd) says India will stand its ground. “Where has military pressure on India worked after 1962? Our ability to monitor transgressions is a lot better now. […]Read More
This will appear odd but, until fairly recently, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) ran karaoke bars, revenues from which went directly into the local commander’s pockets. Even today, the PLA runs piggeries to ensure a steady supply of pork to the men in uniform. It’s part of an extensive network of commercial enterprises that has enriched the […]Read More
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