NEW DELHI: Concerns about Iran and its nuclear weapons are not the main drivers of the UAE’s decision to sign a peace deal with Israel. According to Talmiz Ahmed, India’s former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the latter is driven by visions of punching above its strategic weight in the region, but to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As news of the UAE-Israel peace deal spread, an Indian diplomat remarked that it was akin to gays “coming out” (of the closet). Despite periodic condemnations of Israel perfidy, including and especially its colonisation of Palestinian land, Arab states have maintained a quiet, under-the-radar relationship with the Jewish state. That the UAE has […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Three tweets that made history: First Donald Trump’s announcing the “Huge breakthrough … historic peace agreement between our two great friends Israel and the UAE.” Within minutes Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted “Historic Day”, followed by a more restrained but detailed tweet from UAE President Sheikh Zayed bin Nahyan which went thus … […]Read More
NEW DELHI: US presidential candidate Joe Biden has picked Senator Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate. In this exclusive interview recorded earlier, journalist and public policy analyst Akshobh Giridhardas based in Washington DC, argues that Biden’s pick is crucial looking ahead. Given his advanced years and assuming he wins, a second term is in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: ‘A storm in a teacup’ or just a hiccup. Either way (or worse), Pakistan’s long-standing ties with Saudi Arabia—a relationship leavened by Islam, oil and periodic infusions of cash—are under intense scrutiny ever since Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi warned in a TV chat show in Islamabad on Wednesday that if the Saudis […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Two diplomatic broadsides delivered on Twitter, underscoring once again how China’s actions in India’s Ladakh, have resonated through the world. The first from Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s high commissioner to India, who had called on External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday. In a statement released to the media, the high commissioner called for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: This may not be germane to the main story but relevant nonetheless. Reliance Industries overtook Exxon to emerge the world’s second most valuable energy company after its market capitalisation soared to $189 billion. In contrast, Exxon has seen its share come down to $186 billion. Saudi Aramco sits at the top of this […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s a joke doing the rounds in telecom circles: the government is taking credit for the billions brought in by Mukesh Ambani into Reliance Jio. It reflects the view in the telecom industry that the government, apart from making half-hearted attempts to untangle this sector from the thicket of over-regulation and judicial orders, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reiterated an Indian foreign policy formulation when he urged the U.S. to “go beyond alliances”. Addressing a virtual summit of US-India Business Council on Wednesday, he indicated that despite tensions and continuing pressures from China, India was not going to join the U.S. camp. It would work with […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Much has been heard and reported on China’s treatment of its ethnic Uyghur population in Xinjiang province. But is it genocide? Omer Kanat believes it is so. In an exclusive chat with StratNews Global from his base in the US, Kanat says the leadership of the Communist Party of China has no use for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: July 18, 2005, marks a turning point in India-US ties: on this day the joint vision statement setting out the future of the bilateral relationship was issued. It was long and detailed pinpointing areas of focus that ranged from economic development to high technology and space. Buried below was a paragraph where “the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Beijing’s claims to offshore resources across most of the South China Sea are completely unlawful, as is its campaign of bullying to control them.” With that shot across Beijing’s bows (actually a press statement from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo), the U.S. appeared to signal a toughening of its stand on China’s hitherto […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Rattled by its Galwan misadventure and India’s payback, China seems to be discovering the virtues of peace, at least for the cameras. On Friday, Chinese ambassador to India Sun Weidong, in a videographed message, proffered pastoral nuggets of diplomatic wisdom—trust and cooperation between the two countries, the need to move forward and to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Was China’s claim to a portion of eastern Bhutan partly triggered by Indian road activity in that area? There’s speculation this may have been the case. An old plan to upgrade an existing dirt track in the Kameng sector in Indian territory but along the edge of the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary in Bhutan […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Krishna Menon, defence minister under Jawaharlal Nehru, is blamed for the unprepared state of the military during the war against China. He is also blamed for not reading the signals from China correctly (although there much of the blame tends to be directed at Nehru). But Jairam Ramesh, Congress leader and minister during […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In 1996, an Australian government brief made a remarkably prescient observation about China. “A more aggressive Chinese foreign policy could develop if a disruptive succession led to the emergence of a weak leadership appealing to virulent nationalism to shore up its position, especially in order to win the support of the armed forces.” Whether […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Readers of a certain vintage will recall the adventures of Sir Denis Nayland Smith as he sought to thwart the sinister Dr Fu Manchu and his goal of world domination. Dr Fu Manchu was, of course, Chinese and in the politically correct present day, some would fault the author Sax Rohmer for racism. But […]Read More
NEW DELHI: IT is not just information technology, it is also India-Taiwan, India strong in software and Taiwan strong in hardware, says Grant Kuo, tech entrepreneur and academic from Taiwan. Talking exclusively to StratNews Global, Kuo says while decoupling from China is a fact, corporate groups will be looking at how they benefit by moving […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The buzz caused by the prime minister’s call for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ over a month ago has got a tad confused, to put it mildly. To be sure, the PMO website is full of lengthy, wordy details about what it means, ranging from self-reliance to “quantum jump” for the economy, modern infrastructure, technology-driven systems, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The government needs to carefully think through the implications of curtailing or limiting business and trade ties with China, economists are warning. Rajat Kathuria of the economic policy think tank ICRIER is pessimistic about it. “It seems largely political, an expression of the government’s frustration and anger over what happened in Ladakh,” he […]Read More
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