MOSCOW: For the first time in years, Beijing will not set a numerical target for its gross domestic product for 2020, according to the text of a government work report from Premier Li Keqiang at the National People’s Congress in China. “We do not set the specific GDP target mainly due to the global pandemic […]Read More
NEW DELHI: What is the official view of the Nepali government on the Coronavirus? According to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, “Indian virus looks more lethal than Chinese and Italian. More are getting infected”! Usually prime ministers are circumspect, clearly not this one. It’s a pointer to how low the bilateral relationship has fallen. The […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, the British Labour Party cancelled its annual conference scheduled for September in Liverpool, owing to the coronavirus. Party leader Keir Starmer would have quietly welcomed it since votes and motions would have laid down the party line on various issues, including possibly Kashmir. Recall the storm he raised two months ago […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A furious debate has broken out in military and civil circles on ‘Tour of Duty (ToD)’ or ‘Three Years Short Service’ proposed by the Army headquarters for recruiting a limited number of officers and jawans. The proposal envisages a shift from the concept of a permanent service/job in the armed forces towards an ‘internship’/temporary […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The recent Chinese aggressive moves in Ladakh may have its origins in ramping up of infrastructure by India in the border areas. Call it frustration as India has speeded up infrastructure work and troop deployment along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the past few years. Since the areas of Daulat Beg […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week’s announcement of several policy reforms in the defence and space sector, is a result of a detailed study undertaken by the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) and National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) to encourage Make in India in these two domains over the past six months. The creation of a negative […]Read More
NEW DELHI: At the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly, which was virtual owing to the coronavirus, China’s President Xi Jinping agreed to an investigation into the pandemic with some caveats. “China supports the idea of a comprehensive review of the global response to COVID-19 after it is brought under control to sum up […]Read More
KABUL: After months of political deadlock, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and his election rival Abdullah Abdullah have signed a power-sharing deal in which Ghani retains his post and Abdullah takes a leading role in the peace process. As per the agreement signed on Sunday, Abdullah will head the newly established High Council for Peace and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: No diplomat can ignore the call of duty, which is why it is de rigueur for Asean diplomats to don colourful batik shirts if Indonesia is hosting an event; or for others to wear the Arab headdress if the host happens to be from the Arab world. In other words, it’s good optics […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly got underway at the first ever virtual session, 116 countries including 54 members of the African bloc backed an EU-Australian resolution for a probe into the pandemic. Those numbers were much smaller last evening when India joined, 62 in all. Clearly, there is a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Taiwan as a member of the comity of nations has every right to be in the World Health Assembly, says Wang Ting-Yu, Member of Parliament and a member of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party. In an exclusive chat from Taipei with StratNews Global, Wang said Taiwan needed international help in combating the Chinese […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Not many people may know this: By May 14th, India had supplied nearly 3 million hydroxylchloroquine (HCQ) tablets (2.94 mn to be exact) to a staggering 24 countries! There’s more on the way, to 43 other countries. And India would have supplied 100 million of these tablets when the exercise is over. Of […]Read More
Disclaimer: The programme shown above was streamed live and involves no editing. The video may contain certain technical errors which we request you to overlook. NEW DELHI: How was the Eelam War IV won? What mistakes did the Tigers make and what tactics did the Sri Lankan Army use? What role did the international community […]Read More
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NEW DELHI: The shock resignation of World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Roberto Azevedo has added to the uncertainty surrounding the organization which was already under great pressure. In an interview with StratNews Global’s Opinion Editor Ashwin Ahmad, Professor Biswajit Dhar at JNU’s Centre for Economic Studies and Planning gives his thoughts on the ramifications of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Five months into the pandemic, on May 8, the UN Security Council failed to vote on a resolution on COVID-19 because of the geo-political blame game between the U.S. and China. On May 18-19 the World Health Assembly, the WHO’s decision making body may also fall prey to global politics over Taiwan. In […]Read More
NEW DELHI: By the second week of September 2014, the Indian army and ITBP—co-located at the southernmost tip of the eastern Ladakh border—started noticing visible increase in PLA patrolling in the area. Speaking to me, then brigade commander (still a serving officer, so I am not naming him) entrusted with the defence of Chumar recalled: […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Angered and perhaps rattled by the unyielding stand that Indian troops took at Naku La in North Sikkim on May 9 and the fisticuffs that followed between them and PLA personnel, authorities in Beijing reportedly summoned India’s defence attache, a Colonel-rank officer, this week and protested vehemently about the incident, sources told StratNews […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Quad diplomacy has got a whole new life since the pandemic, with virtual weekly meetings of its members along with some other countries. The focus is on sharing ideas and best practices, and where possible resources. But it’s also substantially about China and the sensitive issue of building new supply chains, something which […]Read More
NEW DELHI: CCP General Secretary & Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been badly bruised by public criticism, which was accentuated by the initial mishandling of the Coronavirus epidemic in Wuhan. After an extended hiatus, which includes Xi Jinping’s unexplained disappearance from public view at the peak of the crisis […]Read More
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