NEW DELHI: China is marking the third anniversary of the Galwan clash in eastern Ladakh in its time-honoured manner: portraying it as an achievement that young people should emulate. Meaning that they should be inspired to join the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and to that end, there is extensive use of film and video showing […]Read More
Missamari, Assam: In our series, ‘Along The China Front: Commanding The Tawang Heights’, we spoke to Major General Charanjeev Manju, General Officer Commanding, 71 Infantry Division in Missamari in March 2023. On India’s deployments and locations along the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh, Gen Manju tells the StratNews team of Amitabh P. Revi and Rohit Pandita, “We are sitting on dominating places. We are […]Read More
Find out about the strategic significance of Vijaynagar, described as the Northeast’s ‘Siachen”. In the second of our series, ‘East of the Northeast’, Lieutenant General P.C. Nair, Director General, Assam Rifles is in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi in Vijaynagar, one of the easternmost inhabited areas in India. The head of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Was Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang hinting at some concessions at the end of his bilateral with S. Jaishankar on the sidelines of the SCO in Goa? Note these words: “…push for further cooling and easing of the border situation and maintain sustainable peace and tranquility in the border areas.” Of course, it […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point‘, Dr Geeta Kochhar, Assistant Professor, Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU), Founder & Host, ‘Nation-State Dialogue‘ and Dr M.S. Prathibha, Associate Fellow, East Asia Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses(MP-IDSA) in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The standoff due to incursion by PLA (People’s Liberation Army) troops into Depsang area of Ladakh in 2013 lasted three weeks but had a lasting effect on India about the need to prepare better to counter Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). At that time, there was just one Army division, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “This has become an institutional policy and position of China obviously arrived at with internal deliberations … de-escalation or de-induction is not on the cards.” Lt. Gen. Rakesh Sharma, former Corps Commander in Ladakh, believes this is the singular lesson to be drawn from recent rounds of the India-China dialogue. China wants India […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma(Retd), the Gen Bipin Rawat Chair of Excellence at the United Services Institution of India(USI), Distinguished Fellow at Vivekananda International Foundation(VIF) & the Centre for Land Warfare Studies(CLAWS), Former Adjutant General and Ex-Commander, Ladakh Corps, Indian Army in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the decade since 2013, as India ramped up border infrastructure development, incursions by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have seen a steady rise. But these incursions can also be linked to other events, domestic and external. It has also led some analysts to suspect that Beijing is using the nationalism card to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In our series ‘Borderline Xi‘, Ambassador Nirupama Menon Rao, Former India Foreign Secretary, Ex-Envoy to China, the U.S. and Author, ‘The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet China 1949-62′ in Kunnur, Tamil Nadu and from Washington, D.C., Lisa Curtis, Director, Indo-Pacific Security Programme at the Centre for a New American Security(CNAS), Co-author, ‘India-China Border Tensions […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China is yet to comment on the visit of Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk to Delhi. But Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, has been focused on Bhutan for some time. As the story below will reflect, Weibo is a tool of the Chinese Communist Party, to influence and shape public opinion and ensure […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “The most important bilateral relationship for the United States into the 21st century for me is with India, and I believe we are destined to work more closely together,” believes Kurt Campbell, Deputy Assistant to U.S. President Joe Biden and Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs. In a fireside chat with Richard Fontaine, Chief Executive […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point’, Claude Arpi, Distinguished Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Author, Historian and Tibetologist speaks to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Claude Arpi discusses China’s claims over Arunachal Pradesh, the Dalai Lama’s succession, Tibet, the proposed U.S Senate resolution on Arunachal, the Ladakh standoff, the Xi Jinping-Vladimir […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The latest clash between Indian and Chinese troops at Yangtse in Arunachal Pradesh has once again put the spotlight on the misadventure of Chinese troops and highlighted India’s vulnerabilities in the eastern sector. History is replete of examples of Chinese malafide intentions in the region, the focal point being Tawang. In this episode […]Read More
“We have seen the PRC continue to amass forces and build military infrastructure along the so-called LAC. It does reflect and it’s important to point out, the growing trend by the PRC to assert itself and to be provocative in areas directed towards U.S. allies and our partners in the Indo Pacific. And we will […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The clash in Tawang between Indian and Chinese troops on Dec 9th, could be the most serious incident since the Galwan clash. The location of the clash, Yangtse, has seen attempted Chinese intrusions since 2006, and there was one last year also. In this conversation on The Gist, Lt. Gen. S.L. Narasimhan (Retd), […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point’, from Taipei, Dr Sana Hashmi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation and Scholar, Research Institute for Indo-Pacific Affairs and in Delhi, Antara Ghosal Singh, China Fellow, Observer Research Foundation in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th National Congress, Xi Jinping’s Tibet, Taiwan strategies, India’s non-reaffirmation of the ‘One China Policy’ in official documents […]Read More
NEW DELHI: From Xi Jinping’s point of view, he is well on the way to delivering on the commitments made to his people. So the 20th party congress would be an occasion to pat himself on the back. Atul Aneja editor of the online India narrative, who was the Beijing correspondent for The Hindu newspaper, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The latest round of disengagement involving Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh notwithstanding, two more friction points still remain, says Army Chief General Manoj Pande. In a free-wheeling chat at the India Defence Conclave 2022 with founder and editor-in-chief of Bharat Shakti Nitin A. Gokhale, Gen. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “China is the long-term strategic challenge; 10 years ago that was not the case. The growth of China has been so rapid that we cannot face them alone. Not that we seek to contain China but we want to work with other countries that share our values.” This is not just an Indian […]Read More
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