13 February 2021 It was surprising to see how many veterans as military experts took a view different from that of Lt Gen Panag who appeared to be along with Col Ajay Shukla one of the staunchest critics of the handling of Ladakh situation so far. Of course, it is said often, that the person […]
Category: Geopolitical Strategy
9 February 2021 Imagine when a school scuffle turns bad and reported. Then the boy who was identified as the bully and suitably castigated finds out that the one he thought he took down, is holding fort in class, regaling his audience about the many times he was whipping the bully when no one was […]
1 February 2021 The flurry of administrative orders or executive orders that emanated from the White House have more or less reversed the direction of the American State within a fortnight. It demonstrated not how powerful a Presidency is in America after all, but to the larger world, it demonstrated a commitment upholding Biden Presidency, […]
26 January 2021 We first saw a brief glimpse of Jack Ma, that was on 20 January 2021, as if to offer an olive branch of sorts to the incoming Biden Administration. Yet, Xi’s China is not a suitor, trying to woo the US, which could well be Deng’s China back then in the 70s […]
24 January 2021 Finally we can begin to gaze away from the most important Western Democratic system and nation state, the USA and focus elsewhere. For actually on 20 January 2021, there were no surprises in the script. Of course we saw American raw power of her popular culture on display all day, starting with […]
16 January 2021 It was curious to read that President Xi was asking the boss of Starbucks to play good samaritan and renew high level contacts with incoming Biden administration to ‘ease the US China economic relations’! This tall request from Xi comes at a time when Biden may not exactly reset the button for […]
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Dragon Without Fire?
14 January 2021 I want to ask this question about why the Chinese PLAN and PLAAF and PLA suddenly turned quiescent on the SCS seas, including Taiwan Strait, when the USA was so distracted that we would term this as a ‘nation at war with itself’? I was of the view that Chinese moves since […]
11 January 2021 It is just as well that Subramanian Swamy is amongst those writing a book https://www.jstor.org/stable/45242276?seq=1 in the context of Ladakh, https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/himalayan-challenge-india-china-and-the-quest-for-peace-review-the-search-for-a-new-modus-vivendi-with-china/article33528241.ece for if there is any one close to being claimed as a RW Intellectual, by simply the way of his persuasion currently, Mr Swamy would fit the bill. I have read […]
02 January 2021 After centuries, the voice of a people long suppressed found mention. A people who had been wished away by the White Man were restored to the anthem of a continental nationhood that was constructed by this Western Compact, one that surprisingly evolved far differently than the smaller island colonies further south and […]
20 December 2020 Before we take things to mean more than what they are, Mr Rahul Gandhi’s walking out of a Parliamentary Committee hearing on Defence is being interpreted by too many people and with such bias that I cannot understand.Look at farmers being blamed as misled by Pakistan and China! It is as if […]
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