NEW DELHI: “President-elect Joe Biden has identified a deep bench of distinguished, talented and very experienced leaders and advisors who can walk and chew gum at the same time,” says Alexander Slater, Deputy Managing Director for India at the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC). “Engagement with Europe won’t take away from their ability to work on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A new year may have set in but some of the security challenges staring India in the face can’t be wished away. The standoff between Indian and Chinese troops at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh that began in May last year continues, despite a clutch of meetings between the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, the India-France Strategic Dialogue is the topic of discussion with Ambassador Mohan Kumar, India’s Former Envoy to France, Chairman, RIS and Professor, Jindal Global University and Tara Varma, Head of office, European Council on Foreign Relations, Paris, Policy Fellow, ECFR and Board Member, Women in International Security, France (WISS). In […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Hong Kong is the model for how China can change the world. If Beijing can completely reign in a once free city like Hong Kong. They can also change the free world order,” says Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. “This is really at the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “XI Jinping will be sitting with his popcorn and smiling”, says Cleo Paskal, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defence of Democracies on the U.S. Capitol being breached by President Donald Trump’s supporters while Congress was meeting to certify the Electoral College’s votes for President and Vice President. She added: “China loves this, it’s very […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There is no cause for alarm in UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelling his India visit, says former foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai. In an interview with StratNews Global Opinion Editor Ashwin Ahmad, Mathai said it would be bad optics for Johnson to leave his country at a time the pandemic is seeing a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The nine-month-long standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in eastern Ladakh shows no signs of easing despite there being eight rounds of talks between the Corps Commanders of both sides and several meetings at the diplomatic level. India has marshalled troops that are conditioned to operate at those high altitudes and sub-zero temperatures, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) is a “major win for General Secretary Xi Jinping and really bad news for anyone who strives for more value-led European common foreign and security policy,” says Academic and Author Andreas Fulda. The deal pushed through on December 30, 2020 after seven years of negotiation “by […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It was a 13-day war in which Pakistan was routed by India in December 1971. And Bangladesh was born. India used its military might, helped by the ‘Mukti Bahini’ (liberation force), to take on the Pakistani army that had unleashed a reign of terror in what was then East Pakistan. But the entire […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Australia does not support the Quad becoming a Nato-style military alliance! That’s the word from Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s high commissioner to India. In a wide ranging and exclusive conversation with StratNews Global’s Parul Chandra, he gave reasons why his government felt that way. He also offered an insight into why the Australian authorities […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “China pays attention if countries make it clear they’re not just going to stand back and allow it to take advantage,” says Leon E. Panetta, former U.S. Secretary of Defence and ex-Director CIA. To illustrate, the ex-Pentagon chief talked about a meeting with Xi Jinping, whose first objection was about the U.S. expanding […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “The ability to box-in President-elect Biden on foreign policy is extremely limited and overstated,” says Ambassador John Campbell, the former U.S. Envoy to Nigeria, adding, “in the case of Sudan and Morocco, the Biden administration will not reverse either of those” deals that has four arab countries, so far, joining the Abraham Accords […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Forty nine years ago, India notched up a major military success against Pakistan, leading to the formation of Bangladesh. All of this achieved in less than two weeks. One of the decisive moments in the 1971 war came when around 800 Indian paratroopers landed in Tangail, which was then in East Pakistan. In […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’ Ambassador Navdeep Singh Suri, India’s Former Envoy to the UAE and currently Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation and Dr. Meena Singh Roy, Distinguished Fellow, Middle East Institute and Former head, West Asia Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “India doesn’t have to get its knickers in a twist,” over Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks to the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) think tank, says Nandan Unnikrishnan, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation. “Judge them by the statement they’ve made through actions post Galwan. They’re supplying everything we’ve asked them for” he […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Taking away dictators’, torturers’ access to 27 countries in the European Union (EU) is a harsh, meaningful way of expressing displeasure over these types of crimes, says William F. Browder, a friend and ex-employer of Sergei Magnitsky. On December 7. EU Foreign Ministers approved the ‘Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy’ (informally […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Before COVID vaccines are ready to be delivered to the people, equally critical are end-to-end unbroken cold chains, from manufacturers through the final mile to vaccination sites. After Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Luxembourg counterpart Xavier Bettel spoke in November, B Medical Systems officials are in the country to set up a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s always been a sort of puzzle as to why India is not a more significant player in Southeast Asia, says Sebastian Strangio, author of ‘In The Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia In The Chinese Century’. Agreeing that India is punching below its weight in the region, the Southeast Asia Editor of ‘The Diplomat’ […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh completes seven months, the longest ever, the realisation seems to have dawned on policy makers that China, not Pakistan, is the bigger challenge India faces. But when it comes to Indian Army troop deployment along the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants Australia “to be compliant, recognise their rise and not stand in their way” with “pressure through economic boycotts, tariffs and wolf-warrior diplomacy, until we back down,” says Dr. Malcolm Davis, Senior Analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). But, he’s adamant,” we won’t bend the knee […]Read More
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