NEW DELHI: After 15 rounds of dialogue at the level of military commanders, and a 16th round in the offing, India appears no closer to getting the Chinese out of Patrolling Point 14 which they occupied in the wake of the Galway clashes. In this chat on The Gist, Jayadeva Ranade of the Centre for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TheGist, from Miami, Florida, Cleo Paskal, Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ms Paskal discusses China Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s island-hopping blitz across Pacific Island Countries days after the Tokyo Quad Summit, visiting seven […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Rapidly changing geopolitics has had a welcome fallout for India in at least one respect: the apparent willingness of some of the world’s defence hardware majors to transfer key technologies to India. This could be the case with jet engines given reports that the government has told France’s Safran and GE of the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TalkingPoint, in Tokyo, Dr. Tomohiko Taniguchi, Former Special Advisor to Ex-Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s Cabinet, Professor on International political economy and Japan’s strategic diplomacy, Keio University Graduate School of System Design and Management, Senior Fellow, GRIPS Alliance and in Washington, D.C., Seema Sirohi, Columnist, The Economic Times in discussion with StratNews Global […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Philippines has a new president. Ferdinand Marcos was formally proclaimed president at a Congressional ceremony in Manila but will take over on June 30th. Speaking on The Gist, Charmaine Willoughby, associate professor of international studies at De La Salle University in the capital, that although Marcos won nearly 59% of the popular […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s capital Islamabad is in lockdown, not due to Covid but to prevent the entry of thousands of supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan. The latter is leading a long march on the city with the aim of forcing a commitment from the government of Shehbaz Sharif of early elections. That has […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s Narendra Modi made no reference either to Russia or Ukraine in his public remarks during the Quad summit in Tokyo. This is when both President Biden and Prime Minister Kishida did, with the former describing Russia’s invasion as a “dark hour”, while Kishida warned against the same thing happening in the Indo […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The India-Israel defence relationship predates 30 years of formal diplomatic ties between the two countries. Against the backdrop of ‘Make in India’, will defence cooperation be affected? Countries are generally reluctant when it comes to defence because Make in India will not only mean production in India but also sharing knowledge, says Naor […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Ambassador Hans Jacob Frydenlund, Norway’s Envoy to India in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The “confidence in India’s economy is underscored by how big the investments of Norway’s Sovereign Fund are”, Ambassador Frydenlund says, “which translates to about $17 billion.” The Norwegian envoy specifies that “energy is the next […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Two ancient civilizations but two young nations—that summarises relations between India and Israel as establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries completes 30 years. A relationship that began on two legs—defence and agriculture—has now grown to be “multi-leg because we are cooperating on everything”, says Naor Gilon, Israel’s ambassador to India. As […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TalkingPoint, Niva Yau, Senior Researcher at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Niva Yau discusses her testimony before the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission during its hearing this month on “China’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the Indian economy was reviving from the Covid-induced downturn, the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war began to manifest itself in the form of high fuel prices. The sad reality is that our energy imports are 4 per cent of our GDP; if gas prices, oil prices, coal prices, fertilizer prices, edible oil […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Russia-Ukraine crisis has significantly brought down supply of energy, leading to a surge in prices. Russian oil supplies are lower than what they were before February; the fear is that the $1 million barrel shortfall a day now could become 3 million barrels a day by the end of this year, says […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Has the time come to take Buddha and Buddhism to the next level? This may appear facetious but Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Lumbini in Nepal, where the Buddha was born, could set that stage. One could argue that at a time when the world is consumed by the war in Ukraine, and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka has tough challenges ahead given the volatile mood in the street, political discord and the pending negotiations over the IMF loan which will come only if the government accepts very stiff conditions. Those conditions needless to say, will be very unpopular with the public. In this chat on The Gist, Dr. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: This decade could be fateful for Asia: China has begun an ambitious power play with the goal of emerging as the predominant power on the Asian continent, says Dr. Srikanth Kondapalli, professor of Chinese Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. In a chat on StratNewsGlobal, he warned that Beijing sees the US as distracted […]Read More
NEW DELHI: From the Armenia-Azerbaijan war in 2020 to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the narrative of war-fighting has seen a distinct shift. Which of these contradictory templates would apply in the Indian context, if push comes to shove? None, says Air Chief Marshal V.R. Chaudhari. In an exclusive interview to StratNews Global […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In response to the Chinese aggression in Eastern Ladakh that began in 2020, the Indian Air Force deployed its men and equipment at those high altitudes. The deployment, which continues to date, came at a time the IAF was also engaged in Covid-mitigation measures. Prolonged deployment at those heights was a challenge as […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On #TalkingPoint, Jayadeva Ranade, President, Centre for China Analysis & Strategy, Former Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat and Author, ‘Xi Jinping’s China’ and Jennifer Zeng, Video creator, ‘Inconvenient Truths’ and Author, ‘Witnessing History: One Woman’s Fight For Freedom and Falun Gong‘ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China takes India very seriously and sees this country as crucial to its long term economic prosperity. So far so good, now comes the negative part: India must put off resolving the border dispute with China, it must join the BRI as that would help Beijing move legacy industries from the east coast […]Read More
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