NEW DELHI: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has announced his first Cabinet and national security nominees this week. India’s former Ambassador to the U.S. and Germany Meera Shankar and James Traub, Author, Journalist and Scholar at New York University’s Centre on International Cooperation discuss the expectations around the world and in America on ‘Talking Point’ with […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The space for those expressing secular, liberal or progressive views is shrinking rapidly in Bangladesh–this is a view expressed by Bangladeshis as they see hardline elements gaining increasing salience in the Muslim-majority nation. Even more worrying, they say, is that such radical views are no longer confined to Islamist outfits but have spread […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla appeared to have struck all the right notes in Kathmandu, describing Nepal as “nikatam mitr” or close friend in initial remarks at the airport. As the day unfolded, protocol was brushed aside as Shringla called on Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, for a one-on-one that included a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is scheduled to travel to Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on Friday and Saturday to carry forward the recent momentum in India-Sri Lanka relations, exactly a year after Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected President in the island nation. On top of the agenda during Doval’s two-day visit is the revival […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I expect the Biden administration to uphold the Trump administration’s precedent with regard to arms sales to Taiwan,” says Charlie Lyons Jones at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in Canberra, adding, “it would be really helpful for bolstering deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.” The Trump administration notified Congress of military deals to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On the 12th anniversary of the Mumbai attacks, India must remind the world that one of the key men behind the attacks that killed so many Indian, Israeli and Western nationals (total 166), remains free in Pakistan. The man in question is Sajid Mir, who is accused of serving as chief planner for the attacks, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Why is 2019 Nobel peace laureate Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed conducting a ‘war’ on the country’s Tigray region? Theodore Murphy, Director of the Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, explains the genesis of what PM Abiy describes as a ‘campaign to uphold the rule of law’, the “explosion of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Winds of change in the India-Nepal relationship? That remains to be seen, but the visit later this week of India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla to Kathmandu suggests a determination to address the bumps in the relationship. The most recent bump of course, is the bitter border dispute over Nepal’s claims to the […]Read More
KABUL: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday arrived on a day-long visit to Afghanistan where he met top Afghan government officials including President Ashraf Ghani and the talks between the two were focused on a number of important issues pertaining to the Afghan peace process, bilateral relations and cooperation between the nations on mutual […]Read More
China’s diatribes are getting positively theatrical. On Thursday, none other than Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said, “It doesn’t matter whether they have 5 eyes or 10 eyes, if they dare to damage China’s sovereignty, security and development, they should be careful or their eyes will be plucked out.” The threat was directed at Britain, Australia, […]Read More
Great Expectations: Can Team Biden Deliver?
Bangladesh: Creeping Radicalisation And A Complicit Government
India-Nepal: Protocol Set Aside For India’s Top Diplomat, Ties in Reset Mode
Exclusive: China In Mind, India-Sri Lanka-Maldives Revive Maritime Talks After 6 Years
‘Biden Has To Increase Risk Appetite With Xi Jinping, Be Willing To Enforce Indo-Pacific Red Lines’© 2020, SNG. All rights reserved
