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New Delhi: Is Beijing now courting Southeast Asian countries in a bid to counter the backlash against its moves in the South China Sea? State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has invited his counterparts from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore to visit China from March 31 to April 2. Relations between Manila and […]Read More
Indian authorities have blocked bank accounts of the Chinese firm ByteDance for alleged tax evasion. The company has gone to court to get the freeze lifted, pleading that its operations will be hard hit. The accounts were in Citibank and HSBC and both banks have been told not to allow ByteDance to withdraw funds from […]Read More
New Delhi: U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin’s visit to “three partner and ally countries (Japan, South Korea and India) is to get China on the front burner of U.S. foreign policy,” Jack Detsch, Pentagon and National Security Reporter tells StratNews Global. “When you’re turning around a ship that’s as big as the U.S. military […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point’, Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, Japan’s Former Envoy to the U.S., the UN, and the WTO and Rear Admiral (Retd) James Goldrick, Strategic Maritime Expert, Visiting Fellow at the Australian Sea Power Centre and Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) in conversation with StratNews […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Much of the news about Ethiopia these days has centered around the fighting in Tigray province between local militias and the federal forces, and the flood of refugees into neighbouring Sudan. Although large scale fighting appears to have eased, small incidents continue with attacks reported on federal forces. In this exclusive conversation with […]Read More
NEW DELHI: So many years after it was founded (2007), the Quadrilateral Security Initiative or Quad could be laying a crucial milestone on Friday when the four heads of government representing its members (Australia, Japan, India and the U.S.) gather for a virtual summit. That it is taking place less than two months after Joe […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The national carrier has brought back over 2.5 million people of Indian origin to the country so far, as part of the Vande Bharat mission. Private carriers too have pitched in, says Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. Speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, Puri defended attempts to privatise Air India, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “The U.S. will continue to build on the Quad which links us to Japan, Australia and India to constrain China,” Ralph A. Cossa, President Emeritus, Pacific Forum in Honolulu, Hawaii says on President Joe Biden’s first foreign policy speech. At the State Department, Biden signalled aggressive approaches to China and Russia, declaring, “We’ll […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The world’s worst fears about the intentions of the Myanmar military have come true. Last week after hinting at a coup and then backing off, the army, early this morning declared a one year state of emergency, arrested Aung San Suu Kyi and senior officials, and installed a retired general as acting president. […]Read More
