NEW DELHI: Here’s a view on CAATSA (Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act) and whether it would apply to India. When Turkey received the first S400 system in July 2019, the very next week Washington stopped the sale of F-35 fighter aircraft to the Turkish air force. CAATSA sanctions followed the very next year in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Little it seems has changed since India imposed restrictions on Chinese imports in the wake of clashes and continuing tensions in Ladakh. The latest figures indicate that India has a $69 billion trade deficit with China. In this conversation on StratNewsGlobal, Prof Biswajit Dhar of the Centre for Economic Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan has recently released a version of its National Security Policy, the first such document brought out publicly in the country. The document has the imprimatur of Dr Moeed W. Yusuf, who was earlier the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on National Security Division and Strategic Policy Planning, later re-designated […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point, Lt Gen S.L. Narasimhan(Retd), Member of the National Security Advisory Board(NSAB) and Director General, Centre for Contemporary China Studies and Nitin A. Gokhale, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, StratNews Global and BharatShakti in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Editor’s Note: These quotes are edited for space, understanding and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: What’s the way forward for India and China in the new year? Indications from the 14th round of border talks between senior army officers of the two sides have been negative although there are plans to meet again. But even if China relents to some extent on India’s proposed path of disengagement, the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I don’t take these documents seriously because there is nothing to back them up with. It’s part of an elaborate image building exercise. You know Pakistan is seen as the epicentre of terror or as the MEA once described it, as the mothership of terrorism.” Now geoeconomics has become some kind of a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The government’s efforts to indigenise defence production is a good move but there’s the need to leverage the expertise that the country has, says Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd), former Director General (Artillery). He was in conversation with StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, where he cited the example of Dhanush gun and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The government’s move to cut down on defence imports with the overarching aim of making India self-reliant in the critical sector is a welcome move but needs a clear roadmap, says Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd), former Director General (Artillery). Speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale on ‘The Gist’, Lt Gen […]Read More
Myanmar’s military is for the first time requiring the wives of its mid-ranking officers to undergo military training, according to some officers and their wives. The training for spouses of captains and majors was launched on Monday at battalions in Pyin Oo Lwin in Mandalay Region as well as in Taunggyi and Aungban in Shan […]Read More
A member of the negotiating team of the Resistance Front (RF) says they proposed the establishment of a transitional government in Afghanistan in their two-day meeting with officials of the Islamic Emirate hosted by Tehran. The Islamic Emirate delegates visited Iran on Saturday and returned to Kabul on Monday. The RF member, speaking on condition […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Professor Bates Gill, Editor and Principal Investigator for the National Bureau of Asian Research(NBR) project ‘Meeting China’s Military Challenges: Collective Responses of U.S. Allies And Security Partners’ and Professor of Asia-Pacific Security Studies and Head of the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University in Sydney in discussion […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda spoke on Sri Lanka-India Relations: The Way Forward at the Rashtriya Raksha University’s Confab on National Security. He gave a broad overview of ties with India before answering questions from scholars and experts. Here is an edited excerpt based on the material supplied by the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China US rivalry on earth is being replicated in outer space: Beijing recently accused SpaceX of Elon Musk of deliberately engineering a near collision of one of their satellites with the Tiangong space station. Add to that, charges that SpaceX is closely tied in with the US military space programme and so on […]Read More
COLOMBO: During Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit, Sri Lanka and China signed four agreements; namely an agreement on Economic and Technical Co-operation, the Letter of Exchange on the project of 2,000 subsidised housing units for the low-income category in Colombo, the Handover Certificate of the Technical Cooperation Project for the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ,’Talking Point‘, Ambassador Asoke Mukerji, India’s Ex-Envoy to Kazakhstan and Former Permanent Representative to the UN, who also opened India’s first Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan Embassies in 1992 and Aigerim Toleukhanova, a Journalist from Kazakhstan, in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ending decades of uncertainty, India has firmed up its role in a strategic project in Sri Lanka that had been hanging fire since the Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987. After the Sri Lankan Cabinet gave its approval earlier this week, Lanka IOC, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) and the Sri Lankan government have signed three […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s been a welcome re-think on the part of government about free trade agreements (FTAs), says Rajat Kathuria, professor of economics at Shiv Nadar University and former chief executive of the economic policy think tank ICRIER. In a chat on The Gist, Kathuria argues that the current government has not signed a single […]Read More
NEW DELHI: 2021 has turned out to be the Royal Family’s “annus horribilis II.” The word was first coined by the Queen in 1992 to describe a year where three of her children’s marriages ended in divorce and 100 rooms in Windsor Castle burnt down. What made it even worse was “Fergiegate” – when British […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A new year may have begun but there’s no let-up in the old Chinese propaganda against India. How prepared is India to meet the China challenge? Our border infrastructure may have improved from what is was earlier but we should be comparing with what China has done, says Lt Gen VG Khandare (Retd), […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On the first episode of ‘The Gist’ in 2022, Ambassador Amar Sinha, Former Member of the National Security Advisory Board(NSAB), India’s Ex-Envoy to Afghanistan and Distinguished Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) in analysis with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Editor’s Note: These are quotes edited for space, […]Read More
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