NEW DELHI: Defying warnings from China, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, did arrive in Taiwan on Tuesday evening local time. Pelosi, the first U.S. Speaker to visit China in 25 years, was accorded a warm welcome. China reacted by imposing sanctions against several Taiwanese exports to the mainland and announced that it […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Allegations that the government of Afghanistan is systematically targeting individuals associated with the former administration are unfounded, says Abdul Qahar Balkhi, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Speaking to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi on ‘The Gist’ about girls being denied secondary education, he insisted that Afghanistan had the right to enact laws […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Afghan cadets who return home after receiving military training in India will be integrated into the Afghan security forces, says Abdul Qahar Balkhi, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Speaking to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi on ‘The Gist’, Balkhi revealed that the Afghan government and India are exploring infrastructure projects […]Read More
NEW DELHI: How exactly would China go about an operation to spy on Indian targets? Influence political parties, launch cyber-attacks, support insurgents as they did with ULFA, use Confucius institutes etc., says French investigative journalist and author Roger Faligot. In this chat with StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, the author of the book Chinese Spies: From […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Espionage, an inalienable part of the Chinese Communist Party’s strong-arm tactics, has been used differently over the years by successive Chinese leaders beginning with Mao Zedong. So what about Xi Jinping?The problem with Xi is that he wants to do everything at the same time, says French investigative journalist and author Roger Faligot. […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist’, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs(MoFA), Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan(IEA) in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Editor’s Note: This interview was recorded hours before U.S. President Joe Biden announced, “on Saturday, at my direction, the United States successfully conducted an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed the emir of al-Qa’ida: […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Be it enforcing COVID-induced lockdowns, managing restive regions such as Xinjiang, policing the cyberspace for anti-establishment posts or keeping an eye on dissidents both in China and abroad, the Chinese Communist Party resorts to the liberal use of surveillance aided by technology. And espionage has been part of Chinese statecraft, starting from the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: More than a decade after its construction began, INS Vikrant, the first Made in India aircraft carrier, has been handed over to the Navy. It places India in a select club of countries that have the expertise to design and build such ships. Here’s a primer on the multi-thousand-crore asset.Read More
NEW DELHI: Rebuilding the economy and restoring public confidence in governance, the new government in Sri Lanka has a tough job on its hands as the country experiences an unprecedented financial crisis. How did things come to such a pass? And what does the road ahead look like? In this episode of ‘Ask Nitin’, StratNews […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point’, Ambassador Asoke Mukerji, India’s Former UN Permanent Representative, Ex-Envoy to Kazakhstan and the diplomat who opened India’s Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen Missions and Temur Umarov, Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Fellow, OSCE Academy, Bishkek and an Expert on China, Russia and Central Asia in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) […]Read More
NEW DELHI : Ten days ago India crossed a milestone in Covid vaccinations: over 2 billion and counting. As of now, over 97% of the adult population has received one dose and 90% two doses. The clock is now ticking on how quickly India can do the government mandated precautionary third dose. In this conversation […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India moved a step closer to getting 5G services with the auction of 5G spectrum. If all goes well, 5G services will be launched by the end of the year, propelling this country into the same or similar league comprising 5G nations. In this conversation on The Gist, Jaijit Bhattacharya, tech entrepreneur and […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist‘, Ambassador Vivek Katju, India’s Former Envoy To Afghanistan and Former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs(MEA) in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ambassador Katju discusses the Tashkent International Conference on ‘Afghanistan: Security and Economic Development‘. India and more than 20 countries and international organisations are taking part. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Despite 16 rounds of talks between India and China at the Corps Commander level, several friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) still remain. Time and again the Chinese side has shown its unwillingness, reluctance rather, in moving forward. And now, they have come up with a plan to build a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: This month 23 years ago, India declared victory over Pakistan by regaining possession of all Indian posts in Kargil that had been occupied by troops and terrorists who has infiltrated from across the border. 26th of July is celebrated every year as Kargil Vijay Diwas to mark the culmination of the war that […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point‘, Dr Deepika Saraswat, Associate Fellow, West Asia Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses(MP-IDSA), New Delhi and Author, ‘Between Survival and Status: The Counter-hegemonic Geopolitics of Iran’ and Alex Vatanka, founding Director, Iran Programme, Middle East Institute(MEI), Washington, D.C. and Author, ‘The Battle of the Ayatollahs in Iran: […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Former Indian Ambassador to China, Mr Gautam Bambawale said that the Eastern Ladakh clash in 2020 was different from past clashes, in that, the clash of the patrols was not accidental but a well-thought-out, well-planned, well-simulated and well-carried out operation by the Chinese PLA. “China violated many of the agreements signed earlier between […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The rupee is going global! This is not to deny that the rupee has been convertible on the current account since 1994. But calibrated steps by the Reserve Bank and the government over so many years is leading inevitably to the rupee going fully convertible, says Anil Padmanabhan, editor of the popular Capital […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was made the acting president of Sri Lanka after Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country last week and subsequently resigned, has been elected president. Today, as voting took place in parliament, Wickremesinghe secured the support of 134 MPs; Dullas Alahapperume of the SLPP came a distant second, with 82 votes. At […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Jeff M. Smith, Research Fellow, South Asia, Asian Studies Centre at The Heritage Foundation and Author/Editor of ‘Asia’s Quest for Balance: China’s Rise and Balancing in the Indo-Pacific’ and of ‘Cold Peace: China-India Rivalry in the 21st Century’ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Jeff Smith […]Read More
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