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Xi Jinping likely to hold back Taiwan assault as global trade winds not in...

RAHUL KUMAR New Delhi, April 14: With the Russia-Ukraine war prolonging, Taiwan is preparing itself for the eventuality that China may also launch a military...

As the first responder in South Asia, how should India respond to rising instability?

RAHUL KUMAR New Delhi, April 14: South Asia is in turmoil. In August 2021, Afghanistan went the Taliban way - now the country faces a...

China’s military modernisation & its implications for India: Part III – Closing the capability...

New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) China has used the newly established Strategic Support Force (SSF) to build advanced space and offensive cyber capabilities. The...

China’s military modernisation & its implications for India: Part II – Overview of reforms

New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) The most important initiative as part of these reforms was the reorganisation of China's seven-member Central Military Commission (CMC),...

China’s military modernisation & its implications for India: Part I

New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) In 2015, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced the most extensive set of reforms for the Peoples Liberation Army...

Eye for an eye – Russia ready to target West after expulsions of diplomats

ATEET SHARMA New Delhi, April 6: Calling it a "schizoid campaign", Russia's Security Council deputy head Dmitry Medvedev has said that expulsion of diplomats from...

China takes cognisance of India’s rise as global counsel

D.C. PATHAK The ongoing Ukraine-Russia military confrontation has had the world community focus its attention on the moves of the US and Russia as the...

Sufism, Kashmir’s unshakable legacy of coexistence

By SHEIKH QAYOOM Srinagar, March 24 (IANS) For centuries the common bond of tolerance, coexistence, compassion and brotherhood has sustained the cohesion of Kashmir's society....

What does the Ukraine conflict mean for West Asia?

TALMIZ AHMAD New Delhi, March 26: Western commentators are struggling to describe the significance of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Fareed Zakaria has described it...

West must stop pressurizing India against Russia on Ukraine

KANWAL SIBAL New Delhi, March 26: For the West to build pressure on India to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as some kind...