Implications of US-Taliban Peace Deal for India
Introduction United States signed a peace deal with the Taliban at Doha, Qatar on 29 February 2020. The deal paved a way for a complete withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan over the next 14 months in a phased manner. The deal was signed by US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban political chief Mullah […]
Afghan Peace Talks – Expectations, its key players and Prospects for India
Background Ninth round of US – Taliban talks were held in Doha in August 2019. These talks detailed the process of thinning out of the US troops from Afghanistan and in return the Talibans had assured the US that they would not carry out any attacks on US forces. The next phase of talks were […]
Noise Over Farm Bills Explained
Introduction The following historic Bills that are likely to completely alter the farming sector have been passed in both houses of the Parliament: The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Protection and Facilitation) Bill, 2020. The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020. The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020. The […]
China’s Hybrid Warfare
What is Hybrid Warfare? Hybrid warfare is a military strategy that blends conventional warfare, irregular warfare and cyberwarfare. By nature it is a non linear and does not involve sequential progression of a planned strategy. As early as 1999, a publication of China’s People’s Liberation Army, mapped the contours of hybrid warfare, a shift in the arena of violence from military […]
CHINA – TRUSTED LIKE A FOX
INTRODUCTION If we analyse the diplomatic honeymoon between India and China in the last 6 years, we can clearly, now read between the lines that Premier of China, Xi Jinping had been all along scheming and conniving to gain a psychological and diplomatic high ground over India The optimism of the world press, around the […]
India-China five – point action plan to reduce LAC tension
The Foreign Ministers of India and China, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Wang Yi, arrived at a ‘Five Points’ agreement to reduce the prevailing tension on the Ladakh border during their talks in Moscow on the sidelines of the SCO Summit on September 10. Significance of India – China Foreign Ministers’ Talks The process of dialogue between India and […]
RED DRAGON FLEXING MUSCLES AS TIGER LOOKS ON
INTRODUCTION China proved once again, as feared by the whole world, UNTRUSTWORTHY, with its treacherous foreign policy towards India, as the red dragon bared its ugly fangs to reveal its ulterior motives towards its friendly neighbour- India. As the history stands proof, India had been always extending an olive leaf to our aggressive neighbour- China, since […]
BEN GURION CANAL- ISRAELI ANSWER TO SUEZ
Introduction Its common knowledge that the International trading community suffered colossal losses, by the blockade happened in Suez Canal for a week. The blockade exposed the vulnerability of the present trade sea routes when Suez canal goes in-operational since it acts as an impasse between two seas. Hence when Israel announced the start of work […]
Armenia – Azerbaijan Dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh Region
Background Nagorno-Karabakh region lies in between Amenia o one side and Azerbaijan on the other. The dispute began following the breakdown of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and lasted till approximately 1994, with both Armenia and Azerbaijan claiming this strategic territory. At that time, the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh had held a referendum boycotted […]
UK and India vow ‘quantum lead’ in Modi-Johnson meet
Background India – UK Relations India and Britain have had umbilical relationship since our independence; yet, building a sustainable partnership with Britain has been rather hard. While India’s relations with countries as different as the US and France have dramatically improved in recent years, ties with Britain have lagged. One reason for this failure has […]