The writer is a senior journalist with wide experience in covering international affairs. The views expressed are of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda
A warm welcome was given to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during his first official visit on January 13 to the White House where US President Joe Biden hailed Tokyo’s newly launched defence policy, National...
This question has gained salience more in the background of the fact that he will survive at the helm of the country’s affairs not at the pleasure of President Bidya Devi Bhandari but at...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had paid 10-day official visits to Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste and a virtual visit to Micronesia from May 26 to...
It was in the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s threat to Taiwan, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation held its 22nd summit in Samarkand in Uzbekistan. It was also held for the first time...
Sri Lanka needs around $7 billion this year to repay loans taken from foreign countries. In May, it defaulted on its debt repayment. It had to pay $78 million to service its loans by...
In May, when Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made visits to South Pacific island nations and signed plethora of agreements with their leaders, it was felt that Beijing would take these nations into its...
As an invitee to the just concluded G7 Summit in Germany, India stood its ground on the Ukraine war. Despite some indirect pressure from the West and the US, Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused...
In fact, for the first time Premier Li’s assertive move on the economic front, has left President Xi, hailed as the tallest leader of the Middle Kingdom after paramount leader Mao Zedong, to fend...
As the ongoing Ukraine war reverberates across geographies with far tangible impact on economies, fuel and food situation in the world, Southeast Asia in the whole Indo-Pacific region has, in particular, become an area...
India’s firm stand that the Quad’s agenda shouldn’t be changed and the kind of backing it received from Australia which is highly concerned about China’s activities in the Pacific, the informal group during its...
Sri Lanka is in a grave crisis and is finding it difficult to overcome it in the short span of time. Caught in a cleft stick due to excessive burden of foreign debts and...
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...