NEW DELHI: Buried 12 paragraphs deep in the joint statement issued at the end of the India-U.S. 2+2 dialogue earlier this month is a three-line paragraph that says less than what it means: “The Ministers welcomed India’s full membership of the multinational Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) headquartered in Bahrain.” The CMF is a U.S.-led multinational […]Read More
KATHMANDU: Some of Nepal’s major news outlets portray India in a more negative light compared to China, says a report by a Kathmandu-based think tank. The Centre for Social Inclusion and Federalism warns that journalistic bias combined with nationalism and lack of information is contributing to this negative portrayal of India. The report titled ‘Geopolitics and […]Read More
New Delhi: The Ambassador of Azerbaijan, Ashraf Shikhaliyev, features in the first edition of Ambassador’s Brief, our new series where we talk to envoys from around the world posted in Delhi to understand their countries, and their personal relationship with India. In this freewheeling chat, Ambassador Shikhaliyev explains how he became one of Azerbaijan’s top […]Read More
New Delhi: Dr Johan Ove Lagerkvist, Professor of Chinese language and culture, Director of the Stockholm Center for Global Asia at Stockholm University, Author, ‘Organised Loyalty: A New State Ideology for China as a Global Power’, and Dr LI Nan, Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, Author, ‘Civil-Military Relations in Post-Deng China: From Symbiosis […]Read More
NEW DELHI: When it comes to shaping China’s foreign policy, it’s the Chinese Communist Party that decides. That’s how Chinese President Xi Jinping wants it to be. It’s a stark departure from what Deng Xiaoping, credited as the architect of modern China, did (kept the party and the government separate), says Dr Lance L.P. Gore, Senior Research […]Read More
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