International affairs – Page 24 – Maj Gen Harsha Kakar (Retd.)

December 1, 2021

How Vladimir Putin’s visit will bring India and Russia closer despite New Delhi’s deepening ties with US First Post 30 Nov 2021

How Vladimir Putin’s visit will bring India and Russia closer despite New Delhi’s deepening ties with US First Post 30 Nov 2021 Addressing the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow in Jul this year, Indian External Affairs minister, S Jaishankar, stated, ‘relations between Russia and India have been amongst the steadiest of the major relationships […]

November 22, 2021

Xi-Biden summit flops The Excelsior 22 Nov 2021

Xi-Biden summit flops The Excelsior 22 Nov 2021 The over-hyped Xi-Biden summit held last week ended up as ‘much ado about nothing.’ The nearly three-and-a-half-hour summit was mainly both sides projecting their views with no joint statement being released, though this had already been hinted by the White House, prior to the meeting. However, the fact that the two […]

November 9, 2021

How India’s NSA-level meet will help crack the Afghan riddle, expose Pakistan’s duplicity First Post 09 Nov 2021

How India’s NSA-level meet will help crack the Afghan riddle, expose Pakistan’s duplicity First Post 09 Nov 2021 The Indian NSA, Ajit Doval, will be chairing a Regional Security Dialogue of his counterparts on Afghanistan on 10th Nov. This is the third meeting in the series, the first after the Taliban takeover. The two earlier meetings were held in […]

October 28, 2021

The world is looking at India The Excelsior 28 Oct 2021

The world is looking at India The Excelsior 28 Oct 2021 Till a few decades ago, India was considered a land of snake charmers and elephants. The world considered India synonymous to poverty. The change began in the early nineties when Narasimha Rao with Manmohan Singh as his finance minister, opened the Indian economy. India in 1991 was compelled […]

October 21, 2021

Learning from the Armenia- Azerbaijan conflict Scholar Warrior Autumn 2021

Learning from the Armenia- Azerbaijan conflict Scholar Warrior Autumn 2021 Introduction The 44 days Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, launched by Azerbaijan, concluded under a Russian brokered ceasefire on 10 Nov 2020. The end result was degrading for Armenia. It lost control over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. In addition, Armenia was forced to guarantee a safe corridor to Azerbaijan for its […]

October 13, 2021

Why India just can’t walk out of the S 400 deal First Post 12 Oct 2021

Why India just can’t walk out of the S 400 deal First Post 12 Oct 2021 Every time there are Indo-US talks the topic which raises its ugly head is the Indian decision to procure the S 400 Triumf air defence missile systems from Russia and possible US sanctions. A standard question, raised to US representative, in every press […]

October 4, 2021

Why new international alignment will only complement QUAD power in Indo-Pacific First Post 03 Oct 2021

Why new international alignment will only complement QUAD power in Indo-Pacific First Post 03 Oct 2021 The Indo-Pacific is the next region of global competition. President Biden justified his withdrawal from Afghanistan by stating that US concentration shifts to the Indo-Pacific. The latest US strategy has no mention of Afghanistan and Pakistan, implying that the US centre of gravity […]

September 27, 2021

India on the stage of world politics Amar Ujala 27 Sep 2021

हर साल संयुक्त राष्ट्र महासभा का सितंबर का सत्र वैश्विक राजनीति का केंद्र बिंदु बन जाता है। सत्र के अंतराल में विभिन्न वैश्विक मंच मिलकर प्रस्ताव पारित करते हैं, जिनमें से ज्यादातर अर्थहीन होते हैं। राष्ट्रीय नेतागण संबोधन के अधिकार के तहत नकली और काल्पनिक झड़पों को आधार बनाकर अपने पड़ोसी देशों पर आरोप लगाते हैं और महासभा के मंच […]

September 21, 2021

QUAD and BRICS (China frets as QUAD reinforces its relevance and importance in the region) India News Network 21 Sept 2021

QUAD and BRICS (China frets as QUAD reinforces its relevance and importance in the region) India News Network 21 Sept 2021 Zhao Lijian, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson stated post the announcement of the next QUAD leaders’ summit in Washington on 24th Sept, ‘China believes that any regional cooperation framework should go with the trend of the times and […]