NEW DELHI: India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is scheduled to travel to Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on Friday and Saturday to carry forward the recent momentum in India-Sri Lanka relations, exactly a year after Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected President in the island nation. On top of the agenda during Doval’s two-day visit is the revival […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I expect the Biden administration to uphold the Trump administration’s precedent with regard to arms sales to Taiwan,” says Charlie Lyons Jones at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in Canberra, adding, “it would be really helpful for bolstering deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.” The Trump administration notified Congress of military deals to […]Read More
China’s diatribes are getting positively theatrical. On Thursday, none other than Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said, “It doesn’t matter whether they have 5 eyes or 10 eyes, if they dare to damage China’s sovereignty, security and development, they should be careful or their eyes will be plucked out.” The threat was directed at Britain, Australia, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In Thailand, “the momentum of protests has been sustained since July,” and “concurrent outside Bangkok” despite Covid-19 or “few signs of compromise from the Government” but those demanding pro-democracy and monarchical reform “know it’s a long-term game,” says Tan Hui Yee, Indochina Bureau Chief of ‘The Straits Times’. Students as young as 14 […]Read More
NEW DELHI: These days no India-Asean summit is complete without the ritual reference to free, open, inclusive, rules-based Indo-Pacific, which annoys China no end. And so it was with Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the 17th Asean-India Summit via video-link on Thursday. But the prime minister also had a bone to pick with Asean […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In Session One of ‘Talking Point’, Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS), Author of ‘Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy’ and Singapore’s Former Ambassador to the UN and Ex-Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry is in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China under Xi Jinping appears to be turning the clock back, to the time when state surveillance and control over their citizens’ lives was pervasive. In an exclusive chat with StratNews Global on his book India’s China Challenge, author and journalist Ananth Krishnan believes that Xi has absorbed some harsh lessons from the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the India-China standoff continues in Ladakh and the winter deepens, India is shoring up its strategic partnerships inviting Australia to the Malabar Exercise next month and tying up military logistics agreements with a number of countries including possibly the UK in some weeks, Does that mean the India-China relationship is in free […]Read More
NEW DELHI: When chiefs of intelligence agencies travel, whether in the country or outside, it’s rarely known and therefore rarely reported upon. Which is why the visit of Samanta Goel, chief of India’s external espionage outfit RAW (Research and Analysis Wing), to Nepal is odd. According to the respected Kathmandu based English language paper My […]Read More
NEW DELHI: After months of deliberation, dithering and carefully dropped hints, India bit the bullet, formally inviting Australia to take part in the so far trilateral Malabar naval exercise in November. Australia will make up the fourth participant, the others being the US, Japan and India. “As India seeks to increase cooperation with other countries […]Read More
Exclusive: China In Mind, India-Sri Lanka-Maldives Revive Maritime Talks After 6 Years
‘Biden Has To Increase Risk Appetite With Xi Jinping, Be Willing To Enforce Indo-Pacific Red Lines’
12 Years After 26/11, Pakistan Shelters Top Terrorist Sajid Mir
Ethiopia-Tigray War: “Ethnic Genie Out Of The Bottle, UAE Can Weigh In To Mediate Political Solution”
ShortCuts© 2020, SNG. All rights reserved
