Shankar Kumar

  The defence relationship between India and the US has undoubtedly strengthened in the recent past. But with the rapidly changing global situation, due to the pandemic and the Russian action in Ukraine, there is...

  Although China has repeatedly called for stoppage of bombings inside Ukraine with a refrain that ‘civilian casualties under all circumstances are heart-rending and lamentable,’ it has hardly done anything on ground that could make...

  While speaking at a programme organised by the Delhi-based think tank Ananta Centre and Embassy of Japan on February 24, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said the pandemic has generated severe economic stresses and...

  US President Joe Biden and European countries’ leaders fear Russia may invade Ukraine. Some fear that this invasion may take place most probably after the Beijing Winter Olympic Games are over. To counter it,...

  On July 7, 2021, while participating in the centenary celebration of the Communist Party of China, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa praised Beijing lavishly for “successfully eradicating” poverty of 900 million people in...

Before members of the International Olympic Committee in 2015 were to deliberate, discuss and vote on the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Chinese President Xi Jinping had said if the Games were held...

  Although Pentagon report presents chilling details on China’s military plans and strategy, in the Indo-Pacific region, against the US, Taiwan and India, there is truth that Beijing is going to be a hegemon which...

First official delegation, dispatched by the European Parliament to Taiwan, has arrived in Taipei. In the political history of the self-ruled island, it is seen as a development of high significance and this has...

  New Delhi. In the political history of India, for the first time the External Affairs Minister spent five days in Israel. Though nearly three decades have passed when full diplomatic relations were established between the...

With the geo-political environment in the Indo-Pacific region changing very fast, India and Australia have come together to infuse dynamism in their bilateral defence engagement under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Ongoing defence cooperation between...

  When Quad leaders held their first in-person meeting in Washington DC last week, Chinese propaganda machinery was seen projecting about an issue which was not on the agenda of discussion of the informal group....

    Killing of more than 100 people, including 13 US service members in the bomb attacks outside Kabul airport on August 26, took place within 10 days of the Taliban’s capture of the Afghanistan capital....