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
‘Russian Setbacks In Ukraine, Putin Unlikely to Be Deterred, Xi Unsettled’: U.S. Intelligence Chiefs

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
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