NEW DELHI : Ten days ago India crossed a milestone in Covid vaccinations: over 2 billion and counting. As of now, over 97% of the adult population has received one dose and 90% two doses. The clock is now ticking on how quickly India can do the government mandated precautionary third dose. In this conversation […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Was there a secret Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that was outed by Israeli media? The Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud may have denied it in a tweet, but Netanyahu himself hasn’t, saying, “I […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Israel took a major step towards normalising ties with its Arab neighbours when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to the Red Sea city of Neom in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for a secret meeting with Crown Prince Salman. Israel Army Radio reported the event adding that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was […]Read More
A breakthrough is reported from Doha as the two negotiating teams have agreed to include the U.S.-Taliban deal, UN endorsements for Afghan peace process, commitments of the negotiating teams and will of the Afghan people as the base for upcoming negotiations. Sources said Afghan chief negotiator Mohammad Massoom Stanikzai and presidential peace advisor Salam Rahimi […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Russia’s 25-year deal for a Sudanese port on the Red Sea is a “great place to give historic ties with India a little more meat on the skeleton,” says Maxim A. Suchkov, Senior Fellow and Associate Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). This week, Russia announced an agreement to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Look before you leap should be standard advisory for the US government’s various Twitter handles, especially those concerning Pakistan. Days after the US Embassy in Islamabad re-tweeted a tweet critical of Prime Minister Imran Khan, another blunder, this time by the Florida-based US Central Command (CentCom). It condoled the death of Khadim Hussain […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ursula Von Der Leyen is acknowledged to be among the most diplomatic of diplomats, but as president of the European Commission, she could not hide her satisfaction that President Donald Trump – who has had a testy relationship with his trans-Atlantic neighbours – was finally exiting the White House. At a briefing on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The annual Modi-Putin summit looks increasingly unlikely, given the pandemic. It is Putin’s turn to visit but the Russian leader is rarely known to step outside his Kremlin residence and it seems most of his meetings are virtual affairs. Given that, there could be a bit of a risk for Putin to fly […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The announcement by Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday granting provisional provincial status to the disputed region of Gilgit-Baltistan has been slammed by India as one aiming to “camouflage its illegal occupation” and conceal human rights violations there. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivsatava said India “firmly rejects the attempt by […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Over 78 per cent of Chileans have voted “to get rid of the last vestige of the Pinochet dictatorship—its charter,” says John W. Bartlett, ‘The Guardian’ correspondent in Santiago. On October 25, the country voted for a 155-member constitutional assembly, which must feature an equal number of men and women elected by the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: He has two books on India’s military history to his credit but Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam (Retd) says writing his second book titled ‘Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972-2020′ was tough. “Writing about war and conflict when you have lived through it and when you have engaged with people you are writing about […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Xi Jinping-led Chinese state has bitten off more than it can chew in its overreach in trying to redo the world order, especially in lashing out in the South China Sea and around India, says Daniel Blumenthal, the author of ‘The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State’. Beijing uses the […]Read More
HYDERABAD: Colloquially, the terms boundary and border are used interchangeably. A boundary is the line between two states that marks the limits of sovereign jurisdiction. In other words, a boundary is a line agreed upon by both states, normally delineated on maps and demarcated on the ground by both states. A border, on the other hand, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “China was running a 12 per cent budget deficit even before the coronavirus hit, so even if it doesn’t publicise real figures, imagine how much trouble it’s in post COVID-19,” argues Dr. Salvatore Babones, Global Studies scholar at Sydney University and author. Speaking to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P.Revi, he warned that […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In an opinion piece in The Jakarta Post on April 14 this year, China’s ambassador to Indonesia Xiao Qian waxed eloquent about bilateral ties, where the two sides “have composed one piece after another of beautiful music about their exchanges and interactions over the centuries”. At celebrations marking 70 years of diplomatic ties, Ambassador Xiao grandly […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In April this year, the Chinese survey vessel Haiyang Dizhi 4 passed close to Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone in what was seen as a warning to Hanoi not to seek world court arbitration over its maritime dispute with Beijing in the South China Sea. Last week, Vietnam gave its answer: as chair of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s land grab exercise is not limited to its attempt at altering the status quo in East China Sea, South China Sea and with India but with the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan too. According to reports coming from Washington DC, China raised a new, non-existent dispute with Bhutan at a virtual meeting of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Readers of a certain vintage will recall the adventures of Sir Denis Nayland Smith as he sought to thwart the sinister Dr Fu Manchu and his goal of world domination. Dr Fu Manchu was, of course, Chinese and in the politically correct present day, some would fault the author Sax Rohmer for racism. But […]Read More
CHENNAI: Nepal’s Parliament unanimously passed a resolution to adopt a new map in which some Indian territory claimed by Nepal has been included. Is it plain cartographic aggression? Let us see how the claim originated. The India-Nepal boundary in Kalapani area is aligned to the Kali river, based on the Sugauli Treaty of 1816. Nepal […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India and China have built up an impressive series of agreements to guarantee peace on the disputed boundary. The agreements have substantially held with no shots fired in decades. But Monday’s violent incident in the Galwan Valley underscores how these have failed. Indian diplomats say China has no use for such agreements when it […]Read More
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