NEW DELHI: Amidst tensions with China along the LAC, India on Monday joined a passing exercise with a US Navy Carrier Battle Group (CBG) led by USS Nimitz that’s transiting through the six degree channel in the Indian Ocean. Four Indian naval ships sailed with the US CBG that’s headed for the western Indian Ocean […]Read More
NEW DELHI: During the recent Chinese aggression in Ladakh, it was the United States that provided additional and real-time intelligence to Indian agencies in the form of detailed satellite imagery that captured the movement and positions of the PLA troops in the region. This assistance isn’t surprising as the intelligence cooperation between India and goes […]Read More
NEW DELHI: July 18, 2005, marks a turning point in India-US ties: on this day the joint vision statement setting out the future of the bilateral relationship was issued. It was long and detailed pinpointing areas of focus that ranged from economic development to high technology and space. Buried below was a paragraph where “the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups in the South China Sea. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s statement on using all tools to support countries in the region in claims against Beijing. A Japanese defence white paper on its submarines conducting underwater intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Australia to get long-range anti-ship missiles in its increased […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “China’s ties with Pakistan go back decades. If I’m sitting in New Delhi, a Beijing-Tehran strategic deal is a big geopolitical win and certainly not good news for India,” Alex Vatanka, the Director and Senior Fellow, Iran Programme, Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. tells StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Though India’s involvement in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the first phase of disengagement of Indian and Chinese troops in Ladakh gets over, the Army says the entire process is intricate and will need constant verification, indicating the lack of trust after the clash that took place at the Galwan Valley in June 15 in which 20 Indian soldiers laid down […]Read More
NEW DELHI: He has been one of those who have got closest to observing how the unpredictable U.S. President Donald Trump makes decisions with regard to foreign policy. 17 months into being the U.S. National Security Adviser, John Bolton was fired or he quit, as he insisted. Now, just months before the scheduled U.S Presidential […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Border roads not only add to a nation’s infrastructure and facilitate greater surveillance, they can also rile the adversary. If the DS-DBO road in the Himalayan frontier is among the reasons cited by experts for the recent Chinese aggression in eastern Ladakh, in Arunachal Pradesh, a bunch of infrastructure projects by the Border […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I can’t imagine the Pakistanis, if the Chinese needed their help, not being willing to provide it. So if the Chinese said listen-oh boy, we have to teach these Indians a lesson, they’re actually pretty much evenly matched with us on the Himalayas, so why don’t you open up a hot front in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Disengagement between Indian and Chinese troops in Ladakh may be under way but it’s important to be more vigilant in the months to come, says Rear Admiral Sudarshan Y. Shrikhande (retd). Speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, the maritime strategist spoke about China, which was always a problematic continental neighbour, having […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Join us LIVE for the Round Table Discussion For BRICS Media Managers : “How Will The Media World Change After The Pandemic?” Moderated by Vasiliy Pushkov, Director of International Cooperation, Sputnik Participants : – Tatiana Kukhareva, Deputy Head, Sputnik Web-sites and Radio (Russia) – Leonardo Attuch, Editor-in-Chief, Brasil247 (Brasil) – Li Xin, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “While a lot of people in the U.S. have been whispering about a TikTok ban, there is a lot of fear of actually going there. The Indian government did it and the sky didn’t fall,” says Jacob Helberg, Senior Advisor at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Centre. It should serve as a reminder to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “China was running a 12 per cent budget deficit even before the coronavirus hit, so even if it doesn’t publicise real figures, imagine how much trouble it’s in post COVID-19,” argues Dr. Salvatore Babones, Global Studies scholar at Sydney University and author. Speaking to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P.Revi, he warned that […]Read More
Join us LIVE to watch Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale in conversation with Jayadeva Ranade, China specialist. 1800 Hrs IST, 6 July 2020Read More
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NEW DELHI: “China doesn’t have a veto on Russia’s arms relationship with India and will be able to deliver the S-400 air defence system in a relatively short period of time,” Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow tells StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P.Revi in a conversation along with Nandan Unnikrishnan, Distinguished Fellow, ORF. Dr Trenin […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Krishna Menon, defence minister under Jawaharlal Nehru, is blamed for the unprepared state of the military during the war against China. He is also blamed for not reading the signals from China correctly (although there much of the blame tends to be directed at Nehru). But Jairam Ramesh, Congress leader and minister during […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh isn’t the only territorial dispute it has. The list of countries with which China has boundary and maritime issues (read expansionism) seems endless. It’s the prime aggressor in the South China Sea and intermittently intrudes into the exclusive economic zones of many […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s a group of 572 islands that forms India’s eastern outpost. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands that stretch 450 nautical miles from north to south are of immense strategic importance to India. They make up 30 per cent of India’s exclusive economic zone and are positioned close to important sea lanes/trading routes for East […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On Talking Point Anders Corr, Political Risk Analyst, Editor of the book, Great Powers, Grand Strategies: The New Game in the South China Sea, Andreas Fulda, Senior Fellow, University of Nottingham and author of the book The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong: Sharp Power and Its Discontents and […]Read More
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