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NEW DELHI: Chinese billionaire Jack Ma returned to China after a year abroad. Ma disappeared from the public eye post his criticism of the state-owned banks three years ago.Read More
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Former diplomat Anil Trigunayat has extensive experience of Africa, having served in Nigeria, C’ote D’Ivoire and Libya. Currently Distinguished Fellow at the VIF, he spoke extensively to StratNews Global’s Ashwin Ahmad, on the situation in Sudan, how the evacuation is being carried out and the role of the Indian embassy in Khartoum, the External Affairs […]Read More
NEW DELHI:For a country with a fairly mature space programme, it took a long time for India to come out with a space policy. This vision document released a few days ago, sets out what India intends to achieve in space and identifies the instruments to that end, says Chaitanya Giri, Editor of Interstellarnews in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s a discernible shift in the approach of Germany, the dominant economy in Europe, to China from what it was 7-8 years ago, says former foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale, who has also served as envoy to both China and Germany. There was a relatively sanguine view of China in Germany during 2015-2016; now […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A missile launch or a military parade may seem an unusual event for a 10-year-old to attend but things are different in North Korea where Kim Jong Un calls the shots. On April 18, his daughter Kim Ju Ae accompanied him to an inspection of the National Aerospace Development Agency, the latest in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: South Korea has been on a charm offensive with India: witness its mission staffers in Delhi dancing to the Oscar-winning song Nattu Nattu or foreign minister Park Jin acknowledging he is a Bollywood fan during a visit to the Capital earlier this month. But there’s something else here that suggests Seoul wants to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Recent reports suggest a spurt in construction activity, apparently by the Chinese or with their assistance, on Myanmar’s Coco Island that could pose a security threat to India. The island is located just 18 nautical miles off the northernmost tip of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands. There’s chatter that signal intelligence infrastructure on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Nearly three years after Chinese incursions into Eastern Ladakh, some friction points still remain. Beijing now wants to re-engage politically with India ahead of Xi Jinping’s possible visits to India for the SCO and G20 leaders’ summits later this year. Every time an adversary, be it China or Pakistan, makes a conciliatory gesture, […]Read More
Officially it started with Morgan Stanley arguing that this was ‘India’s Decade’. Around the same time, data published by PRICE (People’s Research on the Indian Consumer Economy) report, projected that India’s middle class would nearly double to 715 million by 2030-31 and then grow to a staggering 1 billion by 2047. And, coincidentally, the United […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China appears to be keen on resuming higher political level contacts with India even as it has pushed for resumption of the Corps Commanders level talks to discuss disengagement and de-escalation at the remaining friction points in Eastern Ladakh, latest developments and inputs seem to indicate. China’s Defence Minister Gen Li Shangfu is […]Read More
NEW DELHI: When two generals, allies until five days ago, fall apart, this is what happens: Sudan is seeing the army chief Gen Burhan, and the commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Force Gen Dagalo, slugging it out in the streets of Khartoum and other cities, using every weapon to hand, from small arms and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Has China shown greater strategic imagination and flexibility in leveraging its two-front threat perception than India? Amit Kumar, Research Analyst at the Takshashila Institution believes so. In a chat on Borderline Xi!, a special series on StratNews Global marking 10 years since the Depsang incident, Kumar believes China has successfully manipulated India’s concerns […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On Thursday, India will host the first Global Buddhist Summit, a two-day event with over 300 delegates from Buddhist institutions all over the world attending including the Dalai Lama. The goal, according to a blurb on the website of the Indian government backed International Buddhist Confederation, is to “discuss some of the world’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Closer coordination among various stakeholders, realistic projection of timelines, formulation of standards, hand-holding start-ups and ensuring credibility. Those were some of the key recommendations put forth at the end of the first DefSpace symposium where government agencies and private players discussed challenges and possibilities, exchanged ideas and looked at the road ahead. Chief […]Read More
NEW DELHI: To the rest of the world, relations between China and Taiwan are best described as frayed, with China seen as the aggressor waiting to invade Taiwan. But Fu-Kuo Liu, Director of Taiwan Center for Security Studies, offers a different perspective to the crisis faced by the tiny island nation that is heavily dependent on […]Read More
DHAKA: Bangladesh is visibly and invisibly leaning towards the superpowers, including the United States, China and Russia. But it also has friends and allies in the Middle East. India has been a proven friend, which has partnered Bangladesh’s development. Bangladesh is now inching closer to embracing the Indo-Pacific strategy, despite the country’s professed non-aligned foreign […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In our series ‘Borderline Xi‘, Ambassador Nirupama Menon Rao, Former India Foreign Secretary, Ex-Envoy to China, the U.S. and Author, ‘The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet China 1949-62′ in Kunnur, Tamil Nadu and from Washington, D.C., Lisa Curtis, Director, Indo-Pacific Security Programme at the Centre for a New American Security(CNAS), Co-author, ‘India-China Border Tensions […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Syria was suspended from the 22-member Arab League in 2011 after President Bashar al-Assad regime’s bloody crackdown on protesters. last month, news agency Reuters reported that the two countries were preparing to reopen embassies after Eid ul-Fitr. This comes after Saudi Arabia and Iran, which is a close ally of the Assad regime, […]Read More
Dictatorships and other authoritarian states prize security of the regime above all. China no less, given that its spending on internal security is more than its defence budget. The People’s Liberation Army is the instrument of the Communist Party of China, a situation that flows from the late Chairman Mao’s phrase that “political power flows […]Read More
The Eastern Indian Ocean (EIO) is witnessing the increasing military presence of China. Two recent developments are significant in this regard: first, China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has recently conducted maiden naval exercises with Cambodia. It points to the strengthening of China-Cambodia defence ties. Moreover, China is upgrading and modernizing the infrastructure at the […]Read More
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