13 March 2021 This is the Ides of March or is it something far more overwhelmingly compelling? President Biden had a full fledged Quad Bloc Anti China coalition meeting before his top diplomat went to Alaska to meet with his Chinese counterpart. Loaded dice? Or is this a tear that was darned double quick so […]
11 March 2021 In what can be called a flurry of long overdue diplomacy and policy intent, we can see India, China and USA talk as if by turn or tandem about the issues that engage them. It is really surprising that when the Chinese PLA presence in Ladakh still continues in sectors other than […]
10 March 2021 I was not surprised to hear that Piers Morgan was getting the boot after his comments disparaging Meghan Markle on ITV’s morning show. I have often felt that if television and print media needed one boot right now, it is to boot out Mr Rupert Murdoch, to banish this evil person from […]
08 March 2021 Shailaja Teacher can take a bow even now. It is not possible to sustain a campaign over a year is what folks will have us believe in India. Of course, God’s own country first responded with the memory and the strength of having dealt with Nipah an experience the rest of India […]
07 March 2021 If one did see way back at the beginning of this millennium a potential for the US to seek partnerships with India as a strategic necessity to counterbalance China, what the decades after that has shown is how an erstwhile ally at the time of World Wars, of the Western Compact, Russia, […]
India-US- China: THREE IS Company or Crowd? Introduction 1. From patrol boats patrolling the Malacca straits(i), to building 5 million tonne 15 day oil demand as crude storage at Mangalore and Vizag, to acquisition of PHALCONs, gun locating radars , heavy artillery (Bofors), Hum-vees(ii), Hawk Jet trainer, Aircraft carrier Gorshkov, to rationalising the strategic command […]
03 March 2021 What to make of the spectacle of 600000 doses by Sinovac arriving on a Chinese military aircraft to Philippines Vilamor air base, received by President Duterte. The Chinese ambassador made a triumphant statement on the occasion, one that echoes strangely with those made in colonial era by British Residents in Indian Principalities. […]
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27 February 2021 From where India looks, she has lost her Tamil lever with Lankans long ago, when the IPKF became a souring point, and when late Rajiv Gandhi was killed along with score others in Sriperumbudur in 1991. It is actually a sign of immature leadership of our country that we allowed ourselves to […]
25 February 2021 In what can be characterised as Great Power ploy, President Biden has chosen to moot an alliance of Democracies, simply as an ideological counter to CCP China which is a regime that can be loosely characterised as Non Democratic. What observers are unable to see, Fareed Zakaria included, is that Biden strategy […]
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New Age Tech & Old Economy
20 February 2021 For a long time the new spin offs from world wide web became companies of such fascinating edge of our seat innovation that they were the darlings of the global economy. Virtual, in,fact signalled the birth of this seamless world that the new global economic system sought, one that is borderless, not […]
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