SAMARKAND: The recently concluded heads of state summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan presents India many opportunities: the question is can it capitalise on them? The question is very valid. India is a relative late comer to this region, waking up about a decade ago with the focus on connectivity and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have exacerbated an already disruptive world order, says former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale. The former career diplomat told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale on ‘The Gist’ that India has managed the twin crises better than most countries and is on course to developing its economy, […]Read More
SAMARKAND: The SCO heads of state summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan takes place at a time of enormous geo-political contestation. The Ukraine war, its economic impact and China’s seeming inexorable rise has severely tested the international order and long standing relationships are being questioned. In this chat on The Gist, Prof. Ulugh Beg of the […]Read More
SAMARKAND: Does the India-China agreement on withdrawal of troops from Gogra-Hot Springs lay the ground for a Modi-Xi Jinping bilateral at Samarkand’s SCO summit? The withdrawal meets the line in the sand drawn by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar—no improvement in bilateral relations could take place without China pulling back its forces from areas occupied […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India and China announced last week that their troops will disengage from Patrolling Point-15 ((PP-15) in the Gogra-Hot Springs area along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh. This comes after a year-long impasse in talks between the two sides and a week before the SCO summit in Uzbekistan, which will be […]Read More
SAMARKAND: Welcome to Central Asia, the biggest geopolitical battlefield in India’s neighbourhood. This is where India’s mettle will be tested against a China that has made aggressive inroads into the region. The big question: does India have the stomach to take on China here? Prime Minister Modi’s presence at the heads of state summit of […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist’, Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia, Global President of The Asia Society and Author of the book, ‘The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China’, in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Mr Rudd says “those who have designed the Quad in Washington, Tokyo, Delhi and Canberra […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s economy is in bad shape although nowhere near the kind of collapse that Western media tends to project. But tough times are expected to continue at least until the party congress later this year, when Xi Jinping will get confirmed for an unprecedented third term. That’s the view from Ananth Krishnan, The […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has lessons to learn from the ‘Yuan Wang 5’ affair. The Chinese satellite tracking vessel is now docked at Hambantota harbour in southern Sri Lanka, and while it may have turned off its many sensors and radars in deference to Sri Lankan sentiments, that remains only a claim. The point as Nitin […]Read More
NEW DELHI:The waters of the Taiwan Strait remain turbulent more than two weeks since Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives visited the island. China continues sabre rattling, threatening the worst and has stepped up combat drills by sending its warships and fighter aircraft close to the island. Is all this just […]Read More
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