Sri Lankan crisis: Good time to push back against China’s growing clout in India’s neighbourhood First Post 19 Jul 2022 It is well established that Sri Lanka has defaulted on its payments and is in the throes of an economic crisis. With lack of funds for imports, prices have skyrocketed, resulting in public anger. Calls for resignations of members […]
China-Pak relations not as before The Excelsior 19 Jul 2022 The ‘higher than the mountains’ and ‘deeper than the ocean’ ties between China and Pakistan are possibly losing momentum. There is no doubt that China continues to support Pak diplomatically, as it did when it blocked Abdul Rehman Makki from being listed as a global terrorist, while simultaneously campaigning […]
Pakistan will keep he pot boiling in Kashmir The Statesman 19 Jul 2022 Speaking in Srinagar, former chief minister of J and K, Farooq Abdullah stated, ‘The caravan of militancy won’t end till the time you do not try to win the hearts of the people of J and K and start a dialogue with the neighbouring country and […]
India responds to China through diplomatic manoeuvres Bharat Shakti 15 Jul 2022 The Indian foreign minister, S Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on the side-lines of a G 20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, last week. Jaishankar tweeted, ‘Focused on specific outstanding issues in our bilateral relationship pertaining to the border situation.’ Of course, as expected, there were […]
Indo-China border issue (Hindi) Amar Ujala 12 Jul 2022 The Indian foreign minister, S Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on the side-lines of a G 20 preliminary meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on Thursday. Jaishankar tweeted, ‘Focused on specific outstanding issues in our bilateral relationship pertaining to the border situation. Also spoke about other matters including students and […]
Registrations for Agnipath The Excelsior 12 Jul 2022 The air force, whose registration process for Agniveers under the Agnipath scheme commenced on 24th Jun and concluded on 05 Jul announced it received 7.5 lakh applications. The government subsequently stated that these high numbers indicate that Agnipath had national acceptance. This, despite objections from veterans and strategic analysts, that it […]
Reverberations of the Ukraine war in Asia The Statesman 12 Jul 2022 The decision of Russia to grab Ukrainian territory, it believes belongs to it or to breakaway republics, has created concerns of similar Chinese actions in Asia. China has observed the Ukrainian crisis unfold, provided unstinted diplomatic support to Russia while studying global response. It has witnessed that […]
A lonely China The Excelsior 06 Jul 2022 A full-page paid advertorial by the Chinese embassy to project China’s views at the recently concluded BRICS summit was posted in an Indian newspaper last week. The Chinese ambassador to India, Sun Weidong, who has blocked all critics of China on social media, went to great lengths to praise India and […]
Tupul landslide: Why national media kept quiet when 27 soldiers lost their lives in Manipur disaster First Post 05 Jul 2022 The untimely demise of a number of soldiers alongside civilians in a landslide in Tupul, located in Noney district of Manipur, last week, was largely ignored by the media as it occurred in a remote corner of India. […]
G 20: Diplomatic battle that India must win The Statesman 05 Jul 2020 India will, for the first time, assume the presidency of the G 20 from 01 Dec this year. The G 20 grouping brings together 19 of the world’s leading economies and the EU, all together catering for 80 per cent of the global GDP, 75 percent […]