20 July 2022 When it all began in February no one could quite foresee how this war would entangle and how its possible disentanglement could be arranged by stake holders. As of this day, the picture that emerges is that of a slow burn warfare of attrition where the Ukrainians are unable to hold contested […]
Tag: China's Global Ambitions
03 September 2021 We have grown up hearing all work and no play makes Jack & Jill dull. ( The old phrase has been reworked to accommodate modern gender sensibilities, mind you!) So when you find that your country’s leading Tech export is from a company called Tencent and a game called PUBG, one famously […]
03 April 2021 If you can put partisan politics aside for a moment, then you can actually look at the Burns-Rahul virtual tête-à-tête as perhaps the biggest conversation India and the US had in recent times, which was done in the public domain.It was a very adult conversation, one where the seasoned diplomat was engaging […]
02 April 2021 This one has a lot of what analysts call ‘wheels within wheels’! The Russian presence in the Eurasian Continental is one which we cannot ignore, no matter how much Chinese lay claim to the honours of being the titans, for reasons of history, reasons of character of the people and most importantly […]
26 March 2021 I have to say that I never imagined how Russia could be considered European power when she lay stretched across Asia right upto the Bering Straights! It is one geopolitical map that always piqued me, especially when the Russo Japanese War was described as frankly one between European established power vis-à-vis a […]
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 […]
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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