NEW DELHI: “Now is the time for Prime Minister Modi to test the U.S., ask for things we would not normally have and see the response.” That’s from a former ambassador to the U.S. on the Modi-Biden summit on Saturday, their first since the latter moved into the White House in January. Much has changed […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Dr Aparna Pande, Director of the Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia at the Hudson Institute and co-author of the U.S. think tank’s report, ‘Pakistan’s Destabilisation Playbook: Khalistan Separatist Activism Within the U.S.’ in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The Hudson Institute report is co-authored by […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It was a bittersweet victory in the end for Justin Trudeau. The Canadian prime minister who called a snap election two years after he was elected to the top post in 2019 won, but in the end failed to convert his minority government into a majority. Though votes are still coming in and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India faces the distinctly uncomfortable prospect of a Sikh with Khalistani leanings playing kingmaker in Canada if Monday’s election does not result in a party with a majority. To be sure, Jagmeet Singh of the National Democratic Party is not an unknown quantity, given his support for the Liberal Party government of Prime […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Is India justified in feeling let down by the U.S. on Afghanistan? Diplomats say the U.S. has every right to change policy in keeping with its national interests. But it is the manner in which they go about it that is causing heartburn in Delhi. The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was taken […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador Nirupama Menon Rao, Former Indian Foreign Secretary, Ex-envoy to the U.S., China, and Sri Lanka and Ambassador Teresita C. Schaffer, Former U.S. Envoy to Sri Lanka, Ex-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, one of the State Department’s leading experts on South Asia in her 30 year career, Co-author, ‘India at […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Bonnie S. Glaser, Director of the Asia Programme at the German Marshall Fund of the United States analyses a flurry of high-level visits; U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin’s meetings in Singapore, Hanoi, and Manila, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s discussions in New Delhi and Deputy Secretary of State […]Read More
NEW DELHI: If there were any doubts in Delhi about the visit of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, these were dispelled when he said “There are few relationships in the world that are more vital than the one between the US and India. We are two of the world’s leading democracies and diversity fuels […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The visit of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sends an important signal to the world about how the US views India, says Arun Kumar Singh, former ambassador to the US. Speaking on StratNewsGlobal, he pointed to Blinken’s remarks where he said “We view Indian democracy as a force for good in defence […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in India for his first visit to the country (since taking office), a statement was issued from Beijing on foreign minister Wang Yi’s meeting with his Pakistani counterpart in Chengdu. After the customary fulsome tribute to their partnership, the statement said: “The two sides …. […]Read More
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