NEW DELHI: As expected, Ukraine cast a long shadow on the 2+2 dialogue in Washington DC between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and their US counterparts, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin. At a joint media briefing, Blinken urged that the “rules-based order” – a term […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “India and the US are natural partners,” Prime Minister Modi told US President Biden in initial remarks during their virtual meeting late on Monday night. He thanked Biden for initiating the meeting, underscoring that their talks would add substance to the 2+2 dialogue between the two countries foreign and defence ministers in Washington […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As President Biden lands in Brussels for consultations with Nato, G7 and European partners on how best to counter “Russian aggression” in Ukraine, a key part of the conversation will focus on energy. As NSA Jake Sullivan pointed out at a recent press briefing, “the major priority for both the President and his […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Delhi will be deluged with VIPs from the weekend. Beginning Saturday, Japan’s newly appointed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (he took over from Yoshihide Suga last October) will be in the capital for a day, resuming the bilateral tradition of high level visits that was short-circuited by the pandemic. The Americans are expected next […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Jack Detsch, National Security and Pentagon Reporter at ‘Foreign Policy’ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The Gist discusses top U.S. intelligence officials including CIA director William Burns and the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines briefing the House Intelligence Committee where they said “President Vladimir […]Read More
New Delhi: Quad foreign ministers meeting in Melbourne, Australia, in a toughly worded joint statement, warned against “ungoverned spaces” in Afghanistan, confirmed they were exchanging information on evolving threats and working with Indo-Pacific countries to counter terrorism and violent extremism. The statement mentioned the 26/11 and Pathankot attacks, endorsing India’s position on terrorism from Pakistan. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar travels to Australia for the fourth in person Quad ministerial, the members may need to address some key questions. How do they see the Quad going forward? The Malabar exercises took place under the aegis of the Quad but what will the grouping do next? Will it be […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the third highest post in the State Department, Ex-Envoy to the United Nations, the Russian Federation, India, Israel, and Jordan in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Editor’s Note: These are quotes edited for space, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Presidents Biden and Xi Jinping set the tone early for the world’s most awaited virtual conference. Their opening remarks, with Xi describing Biden as my “old friend”, and the latter reciprocating that both leaders “had never been that formal with another”, suggested that if not friendship, a new equilibrium would be found and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Long hailed as the bastion of journalism, the New York Times continues to have a dedicated readership in the US and in other parts of the world for its “factual” and “unbiased” coverage. But Tel Aviv-based journalist and author Ashley Rindsberg calls these beliefs into question in his recent book called The Gray […]Read More
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