NEW DELHI: Nearly three years after Chinese incursions into Eastern Ladakh, some friction points still remain. Beijing now wants to re-engage politically with India ahead of Xi Jinping’s possible visits to India for the SCO and G20 leaders’ summits later this year. Every time an adversary, be it China or Pakistan, makes a conciliatory gesture, […]Read More

Officially it started with Morgan Stanley arguing that this was ‘India’s Decade’. Around the same time, data published by PRICE (People’s Research on the Indian Consumer Economy) report, projected that India’s middle class would nearly double to 715 million by 2030-31 and then grow to a staggering 1 billion by 2047. And, coincidentally, the United […]Read More

NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Dr David Santoro, President of the Pacific Forum in Honolulu, Hawaii, a specialist in strategic deterrence, arms control, and nonproliferation with a focus on great-power dynamics and U.S. alliances, particularly the role of China in an era of nuclear multipolarity in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The joint statement issued at the end of Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck’s visit to India earlier this week made no explicit reference to the boundary issue (the trijunction of India, Bhutan and China in the Chumbi Valley). But given the media reportage and the perception that Bhutan may be leaning towards […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The joint statement issued at the end of President Putin’s talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, may have raised no eyebrows. China was circumspect about its support for Russia on Ukraine, but clearly sees gains from siding with Moscow. Russia says it’s ready for peace talks but will not relent from its […]Read More
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