NEW DELHI: US Medical Advisor Dr Antony Fauci is turning out to be a U-turn artist. Emails accessed by Buzzfeed News through the courts showed him ignoring warnings that the Wuhan virus could be man-made. Now he’s okay with the theory that the virus may in fact have been “man made.” At a recent public […]Read More
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NEW DELHI: Covid assistance to India “is a reflection of your friendship, status and influence in the world,” Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s High Commissioner to India and Ambassador to Bhutan says, adding, “on Sunday, one of our Australian Defence Force aircraft will be landing here in Delhi, with the delivery of another of the oxygen tanks […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Malaysia’s Air Force scrambled jets and the Foreign Ministry summoned China’s envoy to explain an “intrusion” by 16 Air Force transport planes into its airspace. Malaysian Academic and Security Analyst Dr. Ahmad El-Muhammady explains the reactions after the Southeast Asian country’s military detected “suspicious” activity over the South China Sea, the strong diplomatic […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A week ago, Penpa Tsering took over as the new president of the Central Tibetan Administration. Soon after, he said efforts would be made to reach out to the Chinese government to find a mutually beneficial, negotiated and non-violent solution to the Sino-Tibet conflict. Till such a lasting solution is found, we shall […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the seven member states of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical & Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) ready for the fifth summit in Sri Lanka in August, the major takeaway of a free trade area (FTA) appears elusive. Discussions over the last 15 years have got nowhere, and under the present Indian […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India delivered a pointed message to China at the virtual summit of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China South Africa) foreign ministers on Tuesday. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar called for the “territorial integrity” of all states to be preserved. He said, “We strive for a fair, just, inclusive, equitable and representative multipolar international […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s ‘Wolf Warriors’ are known worldwide as its civilian army, but how does the Chinese Communist Party aggressively weaponise and churn out false narratives, fake news, disinformation and misinformation, how successful is Beijing and what can be done to foil it? On ‘The Gist’, Dr. Puma Shen, Chairman of Doublethink Lab in Taiwan, […]Read More
One doesn’t have to look far for proof that politics makes for strange bedfellows. After feuding with Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli (for much of last year) over his claims to Kalapani and playing footsie with China, India now appears to have put all its eggs in the same Oli basket. In this chat […]Read More
The Chin National Front (CNF), one of the ethnic armed organizations in Myanmar, has allied with the National Unity Government (NUG), becoming the first such group to side with the country’s shadow government formed to topple the military regime. According to the pact signed on Saturday, the two sides agree to cooperate based on equality, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Call it the Covid effect but the third Arctic Science Ministerial hosted virtually by Iceland and Japan last month happened with apparently little notice. But to those interested in the Arctic, it signalled India’s renewed focus on a region more than 4000-km distant yet critical to its economy. Scientists and officials involved in […]Read More
COLOMBO: The issue of the Colombo Port City Economic Commission is now done and dusted, with Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena signing and validating the Bill, which was passed by Parliament the previous week. Thereby, the Colombo Port City Economic Commission Act is now effective. However, the legislation has thrown up several key geopolitical issues, from […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Taliban may have forced the U.S. and NATO forces to withdraw from Afghanistan but there is no guarantee that it will have a free run post-September, long time watchers of the country say. Pakistan’s ISI, suspicious of the Taliban’s secret overtures to the United States, is working towards elevating the Haqqani Network […]Read More
NEW DELHI: For the past 24 hours, Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale has been flooded with enquiries about a video clip of him highlighting the wrong geo-tag (location) for Leh. There was some confusion about the exact date on which the video was recorded. Some thought, it is fresh one; some others knew it to be […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Fifteen white papers since the 1990s and there could be more to come. So what explains China’s issuance of so many white papers on Tibet? It reflects China’s insecurities about Tibet despite invading and occupying it 70 years ago, argues Tenzin Lekshay, director of the Tibet Policy Institute in Dharamshala. Speaking exclusively to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The new IT rules that took effect earlier this week has pitted the government against social media platforms such as Twitter and Whatsapp who say it could compromise data encryption and, as an extension, user privacy. The government insists it’s committed to the right to privacy of its citizens but at the same […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Today’s talks have further solidified our strategic partnership and enlarged our agenda of cooperation,” tweeted External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar after talks with his US counterpart Antony Blinken. Jaishankar said he and Blinken had had a “positive discussion” on issues of bilateral co-operation along with regional and global issues. “We covered the Indo-Pacific […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s five-day visit to the U.S. is the first Indian Cabinet ministerial trip to New York and Washington since Joe Biden took over as President. On ‘Talking Point‘, Akriti Vasudeva, Research Analyst at the Stimson Centre and Editor-at-large at online magazine South Asian Voices and Atman M. Trivedi, who […]Read More
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, currently on a visit to the U.S., was interviewed by former U.S. National Security Adviser HR McMaster. The questions ranged from the pandemic to China, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He warned that in the post-Covid world, there is need for better balance, less risk in terms of production and supply chains […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar continued his “in person” contact with the Biden administration with his long-awaited official visit to the US. The visit which is the first by Jaishankar to the US since President Joe Biden came to power will see a number of key meetings take place. Jaishankar’s first appointment in […]Read More
Date: May 31, 2020 Place: A non-descript restaurant in Karol Bagh, Delhi Two Pakistan High Commission staffers working in the visa section of the mission approach a man sitting alone on a table in a corner of the mid-sized restaurant. This is their first meeting with the man they think is a soldier in the […]Read More