NEW DELHI: It would be extremely naïve and dangerous to assume that the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy initiative, is losing steam, says Dr Walter C Ladwig III, a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at King’s College, London. Dr Ladwig, who specialises in the US foreign policy, South Asian […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An India-Taiwan Migration & Mobility Agreement could be signed as early as next month. It could see the recruitment of skilled Indian workers for Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. Hospital professionals, nurses and care givers are also in demand but the exact numbers will be determined later and nowhere near the one lakh mentioned in some […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Cleo Paskal wears many hats. As a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Washington D.C., her focus is on the Indo-Pacific region, particularly India and the Pacific Islands. She is associated with several international security organisations including the Global Counter-Terrorism Council, and lectures at and briefs various security organisations and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the past couple of weeks, Operation 1027—an alliance of three armed anti-junta groups in Myanmar which was formed on October 27—has intensified its offensive against the country’s military and gained more ground. To escape the fighting, thousands of Myanmarese have crossed the border and taken refuge in adjoining Mizoram. Ever since the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s stakes in the Maldives have never been higher. The recent election of Mohammad Muizzu as president, unseating the pro-India Mohd. Soli has strengthened the view that China will return along with all its attendant strategic games against India. But Vice Adm. Shekhar Sinha (Retd), former FOC-in-C of Western Naval Command, believes India […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As U.S. President Joe Biden met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping face to face after a year, it was “some of the most constructive and productive discussions we’ve had,” as the former put it. The United States would compete vigorously but responsibly with China “so it doesn’t veer into conflict or accidental conflict”, he […]Read More
India’s ambitious $82-billion-dollar (Rs 6 lakh crore) port development programme launched in 2021 with a 14-year time frame, aims to transform the way maritime business is conducted. This has implications for the Indo-Pacific, said Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal as he addressed delegates on the second day of the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue hosted by the Indian […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a few weeks from now the world’s high table, the Conference of Parties or COP, for battling climate change will converge in Dubai. The run-up to the meeting has been marred by a dramatic turn in geopolitics—especially the spread of regional wars to the Middle East. Unfortunately, the outcome of this meeting […]Read More
Two weeks since Pakistan began expelling undocumented Afghans living in the country, over two lakh have crossed over into Afghanistan many with little other than the clothes on their backs, the daily numbers rose to 15,000 when border crossings in Balochistan province opened earlier this week. Pakistan claims those being expelled are the undocumented Afghans […]Read More
It would seem there’s nothing quite like an international seminar on the Indo-Pacific to draw everybody, from political big guns to military brass, from diplomats to academics on the think tank circuit. And so it was on the opening day of the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue hosted by the Indian Navy in Delhi. Navy Chief Admiral […]Read More
“India and the US are not allies but we are more than partners. It is a partnership plus,” says Lisa Curtis, Senior Fellow and Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Programme at the Centre for a New American Security. Curtis, who was interviewed by StratNews Global in Delhi recently, said the foundations for the India-US relationship were strong which has […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Myanmar army could be at the cross roads in its two-and-a-half year-long war against a coalition of ethnic rebel groups. It has suffered many reverses, seen military garrisons overrun, and has been unable to overcome low morale and defections. In fact, P M Heblikar, former special secretary to government who follows Myanmar […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of an ongoing border standoff with China that’s over three years old, India has “no option but to commence a dialogue with China, simply because you don’t have the luxury of being separated by oceans and continents,” says former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale. The other Quad partners have also entered […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The India-US 2+2 dialogue last week in Delhi was routine in many respects but such meetings are required to push bureaucracies and boost confidence on either side, says Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha, former Commander Western Fleet and head of Integrated Defence Staff. Admiral Sinha was answering questions on The Gist about the pace […]Read More
In January next year, the United Nations will hold its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) where it will scrutinise the human rights conduct of its member states, assess their claims on upholding human rights and also invite NGOs and other stakeholders to give their views on the country in question. It could be a particularly uncomfortable […]Read More
“The axis of the world has changed,” warned Ambassador Hardeep Puri in an interview with StratNews Global recently, pointing out that Hamas’s actions on Oct. 7 have no justification, but they also broke a convention that even acts of terror would be carried out in a “calibrated” and “restrained” manner. “What has happened till now is […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Building on the visits of PM Modi to the U.S. and President Biden to New Delhi earlier this year, the foreign and defence ministers of both countries met here on Friday under the 2+2 format that was instituted in 2019. They noted the substantial progress in transforming India-U.S. relations across domains, according to […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point’, Lisa Curtis, Senior Fellow and Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Programme at the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS) in Washington,D.C., Former Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States and Former U.S. National Security Council Senior Director for South and Central Asia from 2017 to 2021 under […]Read More
Little under a fortnight ago, the NITI Aayog shared a sneak peek of the vision document for India@2047. The big headline was the target of $30 trillion set by the institution for the country’s economy — which means growing the economy nearly ten times from the present level of $3.4 trillion. Can India pull this […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As political temperatures heat up in Bangladesh ahead of elections expected in January, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina finds herself under attack from the US, which has accused her of undermining the democratic election process and imposed visa restrictions on key members of the ruling Awami League and others. Is Bangladesh a test case […]Read More
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