Category : Books Corner

NEW DELHI: Be it enforcing COVID-induced lockdowns, managing restive regions such as Xinjiang, policing the cyberspace for anti-establishment posts or keeping an eye on dissidents both in China and abroad, the Chinese Communist Party resorts to the liberal use of surveillance aided by technology. And espionage has been part of Chinese statecraft, starting from the […]Read More

NEW DELHI: China’s policy towards India’s neighbours is driven by a mix of commerce and the need to limit Delhi’s expanding strategic footprint, argues Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury, author of The China Factor. An M.Phil. from Oxford, Roy-Chaudhury wrote the book based on his understanding that other than the strategic community, there was little in the public […]Read More

NEW DELHI: On ‘Books Corner‘, Anirudh Suri, Author of ‘The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations’ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. “India has a lot of talent and capital, but to compete in ‘The Great Tech Game’, she lacks technology, policy and strategy,” he argues, adding, […]Read More

NEW DELHI: West Asia has seen some of the most horrific wars in recent memory. The US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 did result in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein but also saw the rise of the Islamic State and its atrocities, inflicted mostly on co-religonists. There followed the short lived Arab Spring where hopes […]Read More