Opinion

  Most analysts may get it wrong if they think the USA would fight Taiwan’s war with China. They fail to take note of the significance of an old maxim that barking dogs seldom bite....

  Guided by the vision of reviving the glory of the , China under President Xi Jinping has been on an assertive and belligerent course. Under Xi, China has jettisoned the policy of peaceful coexistence...

  "China cannot even put a potato in space,” Mao Zedong, the founders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), once said. But today China’s ‘Space Dream’ under President Xi Jinping is to overtake all nations...

Western Chaos The famous hypnotherapist Milton Erickson once said, “Confusion always precedes Enlightenment.” The recent diplomatic circus on display post-Ukraine crisis aptly amplifies the axiom. The barrage of statements and sanctions from the US and European...

  Sri Lanka is on the edge. Faced with an unprecedented economic crisis perceived to be the worst in the island nation’s history, Sri Lanka has been wracked by months of popular protests against the...

  Maritime power in India dates back to centuries. The Cholas employed naval power to extend their influence overseas. The Zamorins under Marakkar during 15th century, and the Maratha Navy during the 17th and 18th centuries especially under...

Not Just Another Country China has a land mass of approximately 5200 km from east to west and 5500 km from north to south. It shares its land border with 14 countries, which is next...

Free Run China turned a page in its historical evolution in the 1980s when a socialist-communist country started opening up to take a capitalist avatar. The progress that followed was brisk and awesome. Development and...

  The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) is seeking to rectify multiple problems related to its strength and fleet structure. India's Tejas and China's J-17 aircraft have become embroiled in the resultant tender.  RMAF's Problems Due to...

  On April 14, 2022 two ground-launched R-360 Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles punched big holes in the side of a warship called Moskva, the pride of Russia’s Black Sea fleet which went down to the...

Before independence, the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir had to reluctantly give up the idea of staying independent, primarily because of massive polarisation between the newly-born states of India and Pakistan. The only...

  Japan is known as the ‘land of the rising sun’. The country has truly risen to its name. We are commemorating 70 years of our diplomatic relations with Japan, with 2022 being a landmark...

  First came the reports of Russia's Su-57 next-generation fighter operating in support of the country's war effort in Ukraine. Then came news of sightings of the stealth fighter over the city of Zhytomyr starting...