NEW DELHI: South Korea has been on a charm offensive with India: witness its mission staffers in Delhi dancing to the Oscar-winning song Nattu Nattu or foreign minister Park Jin acknowledging he is a Bollywood fan during a visit to the Capital earlier this month. But there’s something else here that suggests Seoul wants to […]Read More
TEL AVIV: Saudi Arabia and Iran have set aside mutual antagonism and ideological proxy wars by agreeing to a peace deal. More intriguing than the sudden declaration of the end of hostilities by these two regional rivals was the new mediator, China, known in West Asia largely for its deep dependence on the region’s oil and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Mohammed Soliman is widely regarded as one of the most influential strategists from the Middle East, particularly in the context of great power competition. His thoughts and writings helped shape a vision for the post-U.S. Middle East. One of Soliman’s most significant contributions was his pursuit to redefine the Middle East as West […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Here’s a thought: 5G may well be the last communication revolution to be embraced by the whole world. The next phase in this revolution, 6G, may not have the same success given current geopolitics over Ukraine that has seen the world harden into what some describe as Cold War 2.0. The result could […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has offered to help build a satellite city, including ports, roads and energy infrastructure, near Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Act Far East Policy. This was discussed during the working visit by Aleksey Chekunkov, Russia’s minister for the Far East and Arctic, during his recent […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “It’s a sad story.” That is how Claude Arpi, author, columnist and a leading authority on Tibet began his talk at Delhi’s India International Centre. Claude, who is a Distinguished Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, was delivering the 33rd Annual Padmapani Lecture organised by Tibet House, founded […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The May 2020 clashes in Galwan between the PLA and Indian forces and the subsequent clashes and face-offs along the Line of Actual Control in both the eastern and western sectors raise two important questions. What made China violate the agreements which had ensured a kind of peace along the border for almost […]Read More
Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst and journalist specializing in the global systemic transition to multipolarity. He’s a regular contributor to several online journals, and a member of the expert council for the Institute of Strategic Studies and Predictions at the People’s Friendship University of Russia. He has published various works in the […]Read More
New Delhi: Russia re-invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. One year on, Ambassador D.B. Venkatesh Varma, India’s Envoy to Russia from September 2018 to October 2021 speaks to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The former envoy shares his analysis of where the war is currently, where it is heading, mistakes, miscalculations, differing narratives, […]Read More
The earthquake could not have come at a worse time for Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Elections are due in May and the economy is in deep trouble with inflation estimated at around 58% and a wide budget deficit. Yet, he has no choice but to spend more, especially in the 10 provinces hit by […]Read More
Sri Lanka’s attempts to get an IMF loan to tide over its worst economic crisis since its independence has been caught in the crossfire of global geopolitics, with China refusing to align with the IMF terms on restructuring its loans, and instead offering a two-year moratorium. Dhananath Fernando, the CEO of Advocata Institute, a prominent […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the past year. An unprecedented but not unexpected economic crisis and the ensuing food, fuel and power shortages sparked violent protests that forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country in July. His successor, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, declared a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Indian establishment remembers well the late President Mubarak of Egypt. It took him 13 years to find time to come to India to receive the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, announced so many years earlier. Apparently, a protocol gaffe by India at a NAM summit had offended him deeply. Fortunately, fellow […]Read More
There are issues of key import as India looks to seal free trade agreements with the UK (hopefully by the middle of this year), and with the European Union (which could take more time): these are countries that India actually does substantial trade with. “The FTA with the UAE makes sense given over $73 billion […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Work on India’s first semiconductor chip manufacturing plant is expected to get underway early in the new year, in Mysuru, Karnataka. Media reports quoted Ashwath Narayan, state IT minister, to that effect, also indicating that the company is the International Semiconductor Consortium (ISC) comprising the UAE based investment firm Next Orbit Ventures and Israel-based […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Few saw it coming but a thaw of sorts in ties between India and Turkey came a month and a half ago. On the sidelines of the SCO summit in Uzbekistan’s Samarkand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Turkish President Erdogan. The two leaders discussed ways to deepen bilateral cooperation in diverse sectors, tweeted PM Modi’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The mood in Moscow is grim. It’s been around 24 hours since Russia carried out air, land and undersea drills involving its nuclear forces, simulating a massive counter strike. It flowed from President Vladimir Putin’s warning to use “all means available” to defend Russian territory. U.S. President Biden had earlier warned Russia that using […]Read More
When it comes to looking into calls for a system change in the country, it is crucial to understand that the kind of corruption that is being protested against is not simply people breaking the law or finding loopholes to evade the law, but that in Sri Lanka, the rules themselves have been designed and […]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
BENGALURU: Since Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, Beijing has been in overdrive. The economic behemoth that China has become, people fear the proverbial ‘final warning by China’ does not represent the current establishment. With the U.S. dispatching its naval vessels towards Taiwanese waters, it is time to compare the naval […]Read More
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