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
NEW DELHI: Is there a way forward for India and China after Monday evening’s bloody clash in the Galwan Valley? Developments on Wednesday held out slender hope after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi over the phone. The MEA statement said “…both sides would implement the disengagement understanding of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As Indian and Chinese forces step back from ‘standoff’ positions in Ladakh and begin re-deploying towards their base areas further inland, a word of caution from Taiwan’s envoy to India Chung Kwang Tien. “China’s record of animosity towards India reflects its wolf warrior diplomacy,” he warned, adding that Beijing has “consistently undermined India’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: These are interesting times to be in China. Amit Waikar is a case in point. He’s an Indian, settled in Shanghai for the last decade, a senior executive in a German multinational. He stayed on through the peak of the coronavirus and in an exclusive chat with StratNews Global, gave us his impressions. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China is sending India a message, that the pinpricks on the Line of Actual Control will continue until Delhi acknowledges Beijing’s interests in this part of the world. Prof. B.R. Deepak, who teaches and researches on China at Jawaharlal Nehru University, told StratNews Global that China does not believe India has lived up […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Is China moving to beef up its nuclear arsenal? References in the media would suggest otherwise but China’s media is state-owned and has been used in the past to trial balloon various ideas. Which is why when Global Times urged that China vastly increase the size of its nuclear arsenal, eyebrows went up. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Barring a miracle, China appears all set to implement its tough national security law that would negate Hong Kong’s cherished freedoms. In an exclusive chat with StratNews Global Editor Surya Gangadharan, Alvin Leung, Hong Kong Legislator and Lawyer says the people of the territory will not accept China’s attempt to ram the security […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), has extended to June 24 its Rs 9000 crore (around $1.3 bn) tender for upgrading 50,000 new 4G sites in four zones and nearly 7000 new sites in Delhi and Mumbai for MTNL. Reports in the pink papers said “some officials in the Department […]Read More
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