NEW DELHI: At a meeting of the security chiefs of the eight-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), India’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval condemned terrorism and underlined the need to bring its perpetrators to book. With Pakistan’s NSA Moeed Yusuf listening in, Doval drove home the message loud and clear. Perpetrators of terrorism, including cross-border […]Read More
BENGALURU: The recent U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva came, to use a sporting metaphor, against the run of play. The two countries have recently been caught up in an escalating spiral of economic sanctions, mutual recriminations, and confrontations—directly or through proxies—in multiple geographies, across seas and continents. In the polarised politics of the U.S. today, the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “The European Union has paid less attention to India than it should have.” With that Portugal’s foreign minister Augusto Santos Silva pointed out how the EU’s Indo-Pacific strategy and the outreach to Delhi drew from Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy and the national strategies of Holland, the UK and Germany. “So we needed to focus […]Read More
NEW DELHI: What is China’s engagement strategy with the Philippines, how has Beijing adapted its Belt and Road development initiative with Manila, why did President Rodrigo Duterte choose the Chinese to fund certain projects when better alternatives were available, what are the consequences and the pushback locally and why do ruling powers accept China’s secrecy […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has embarked on an ambitious Deep Ocean Mission over the next five years at a cost of over Rs.4000 crore. The mission is as much a result of deep sea research and expertise over the last few decades, as also the recognition that India needs to step up the pace of research […]Read More
Myanmar military regime leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing flew out of the country on Sunday to attend a conference in Moscow. This is his second trip abroad since grabbing power from Myanmar’s democratically elected government in February. The official reason for his visit is to attend the Moscow Conference on International Security scheduled for […]Read More
Islamabad: In this exclusive interview, Lotfullah Najafizada, the head of TOLO news speaks to Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on the Afghan peace process, Afghanistan-Pakistan relations, Pakistan’s ties with India, The U.S. exit, American bases, Pakistan’s deep state, Taliban sanctuaries and attacks and more in this comprehensive interview. (By arrangement with ‘Tolo News’)Read More
National League for Democracy (NLD) Central Executive Committee member U Aung Kyi Nyunt says the military regime’s plan to abolish the party is a plot to illegally win the next general election. “As they know, there is no way to compete against the most popular party so they are trying to eliminate the NLD before […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “The U.S.-Russia relationship is like a falling knife and we need to catch it,” Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund RDIF, told CNBC recently. On ‘Talking Point’, Dr. Anna Kireeva, Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and African Studies, Research Fellow at the Centre for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A year after the Galwan clash, the standoff between India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh continues despite a partial disengagement. India has hit back by banning hundreds of Chinese-made apps, including Tiktok, and barring Chinese tech major Huawei from 5G field trials. External Affairs Minister S […]Read More
NEW DELHI: For a tiny nation, Sri Lanka has astoundingly high levels of external debt, its foreign reserves are low and the pandemic has played havoc on the tourism sector, one of the mainstays of its economy. Soon after taking charge as President in 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa had told StratNews Global that he would prefer […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Iran will vote on Friday for a new president, but will the new man be interested in working with the US to secure the nuclear deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – JCPOA)? Ebrahim Raisi, the man most likely to become president – the results will be known on Saturday – is seen as an […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In our series on one year since the clash in the Galwan Valley, we talk to Dr. Shen Ming-Shi, a former Taiwanese army colonel who is presently a fellow at the Institute for National Defense Security Research in Taipei. He says China may not provoke another clash on the disputed border with India, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Has the time come for an India Nato partnership? Strategic affairs commentator Dr. C Raja Mohan believes the time has come and India should not hold back from beginning a dialogue with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. The world’s premier security organisation has for its part, welcomed an opportunity to talk to India […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Twitter will now be held legally liable for all Tweets on its platform in India. Meaning criminal action can be taken against its top executives in India for any content deemed inflammatory or unlawful. This flows from Twitter’s failure to comply with the new social media guidelines which came into effect on May […]Read More
ZURICH: Pakistan does not sponsor terrorism against India because of the Kashmir issue. It sponsors terrorism because its own people cannot hope for a better future. Their destructive energies must be deflected outward rather than allowed to fester domestically, in snowballing resentment at the commercial depredations of a mafia-like military officer corps. Kashmir only helps […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “China has lost India strategically. If they wanted India to play a role between them and the US, that is not going to happen. India is now firmly with the US,” says Gautam Bambawale, former ambassador to China and one of the longest serving joint secretaries on the MEA’s’ China Desk. He talks […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has said it is “studying” U.S. President Joe Biden’s ‘Build Back Better World’ (B3W) plan, announced at the Group of 7 (G7) Summit, and “would engage with them probably at a later stage.” On ‘The Gist’, Jeremy A. Garlick, Director of the Jan Masaryk Centre, Associate Professor of China Studies, Prague University […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A year after the Galwan clash distrust between India and China has resulted in both sides have increased troop presence along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. That means India needs acclimatized reserves, the financial implications of which may be difficult to sustain over a long period of time, says […]Read More
NEW DELHI: U.S. and foreign troops will withdraw from Afghanistan by the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and Washington has indicated that an American military exit may be completed by Independence Day on the fourth of July. How is India shaping its Afghanistan foreign policy in the short, medium and long-term, what do reports of […]Read More
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