NEW DELHI: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has announced his first Cabinet and national security nominees this week. India’s former Ambassador to the U.S. and Germany Meera Shankar and James Traub, Author, Journalist and Scholar at New York University’s Centre on International Cooperation discuss the expectations around the world and in America on ‘Talking Point’ with […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I expect the Biden administration to uphold the Trump administration’s precedent with regard to arms sales to Taiwan,” says Charlie Lyons Jones at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in Canberra, adding, “it would be really helpful for bolstering deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.” The Trump administration notified Congress of military deals to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a few weeks from now, India will get an opportunity to understand and explore a U.S. proposition, to set up a new naval fleet possibly in Singapore, to more fully address the challenges in the Indo-Pacific. U.S. Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite, who is expected in Delhi in the next few weeks, spelt it […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Trump administration announcing U.S. troop cut in Afghanistan to 2,500 by January 15, 2021 was “expected” and ” Afghan security forces have been preparing, carrying out more than 95 per cent of all counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics operations, since 2014,” says M. Ashraf Haidari, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka. President-elect Joe Biden and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The big question staring America in the face is what happens if Donald Trump refuses to concede defeat and leave the White House? Does the military have to do the ‘honours’ by physically escorting him out? No way, said Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “It’ll be handled appropriately […]Read More
NEW DELHI: How is China’s state-controlled media reflecting the victory of Joe Biden in the U.S. elections? With a mix of caution and hope, indicating the sentiment in China’s ruling establishment for a quick end to the turbulence triggered by the Trump administration. But as the leading English language paper China Daily observed in an […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The announcement was suspiciously well timed: as news of Joe Biden’s victory swept news desks all over the world, a policy document attributed to his campaign had some encouraging information for thousands of Indians anxious to live and work in the United States. It said: “Biden will support expanding the number of high […]Read More
(This interview was recorded before the presidential elections were declared) NEW DELHI: As Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden crosses the magic mark of 270 to become the next president of the United States, the question arises to what would a Biden presidency mean for India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular? Vivek Wadhwa, Distinguished […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In Session Two of ‘Talking Point’, Bonnie S. Glaser, Senior Advisor for Asia and Director of the China Power Project at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. is in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ms Glaser works on issues related to Asia-Pacific security with […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In Session One of ‘Talking Point’, Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS), Author of ‘Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy’ and Singapore’s Former Ambassador to the UN and Ex-Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry is in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor […]Read More
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