6 December 21 It is not something that one could expect from many leaders, but Putin as President has always been exceptional. This is what he does and where he makes his daring do such a normal feat of his presidency so far. Akin to riding bare horse, bare chested, or what have you, Putin’s […]
Tag: Ladakh Faceoff
22 November 21 The world is unfortunately vastly more complex than when it was 70 years ago. The only evidence we have is the effort of some historians and analysts who have laid out how the West viewed South Asia, that was India before the colonials arrived, which they successfully dismembered into multiple countries instead […]
09 June 2021 I am no student of mandarin, yet, I am told that the sounds that are made by characters were once variant from region to region, much like how in Tamil country or in the Hindustani heartland, the lore says that the language transforms from every village precinct to the next. ( Scholars […]
22 April 2021 The Chinese are not just harassing the Taiwanese, they are actually testing concepts they have hitherto simply studied in paper or observed the other Carrier operators conduct, including that of her western neighbour India, because China despite her tall claims of historical naval prowess and other revisionisms, knows the truth more than […]
15 April 2021 We can see how actually President Biden operates, in a sense that in all probability he gave his Russian counterpart a heads up over the withdrawal from Afghanistan. A series of exposes from the Inspector General in the US DoD, had led to a better understanding of the futility of the efforts […]
31 March 2021 No analyst could have predicted the pace at which America has returned to the global arena under President Biden. It was as if, Trump WH had just switched off and to get America back in all that Biden had to do was to switch it back on, I can imagine even that […]
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 […]
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, […]
[How India’s domestic calculus must rise to the challenge of offering a solidity and institutional integrity in response to external Chinese aggression.] 24 August 2020 So we have the CDS mention that all options are on the table, including the military option as a last resort if ‘talks do not yield any results’! https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-has-military-options-to-deal-with-chinese-transgressions-if-talks-fail-cds-rawat/articleshow/77713462.cms?fbclid=IwAR3QIgRYO4Ym4FnbOGdIzhA4LnrylKOa0lt-h_wFOLXNTWj5oLrvgEJBvb4Actually I […]
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