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A Quad’s Rise in the Indo-Pacific That’s Rich with Irony for Beijing

Harsh V. Pant - March 17, 2021

It is in the nature of contemporary diplomacy, conducted under the arc lights of 24/7 media obsessed with the ‘breaking news’ phenomenon, that almost every foreign policy engagement is considered ‘historic’. Yet, if any...

China’s Water Bombs

Lt Gen Retd P.C. Katoch - March 14, 2021

After shunning disengagement beyond first phase on both banks of Pangong Tso in Eastern Ladakh, China has fired the next shot at India; China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) has cleared the construction of a...

The Quad Summit: Squaring the Circle

Amb Anil Trigunayat - March 13, 2021

On 12th March 2021, history was indeed made when the four leaders of the so-called QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, PM Scott Morrison of Australia and newly elected...

Strategic Outcome of Biden’s Indo-Pacific Agenda

Shibdas Bhattacharjee - March 11, 2021

Joe Biden’s victory in the last US Presidential election; a bitter one in the democratic history of America was looked rather with a negative approach by a section not only in the United States...

The Great Game in the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal

Pranay K Shome - March 11, 2021

Nepal has been facing internal political turbulence for the last six months. Ever since the incumbent Premier KP Sharma Oli decided to dissolve Parliament and hold snap elections in April, since then a lot...

New Delhi’s New Regional Calculus

Harsh V. Pant - March 10, 2021

Last month, New Delhi’s regional policy took another interesting turn with the beginning of disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the announcement of ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC). After...

Mission BrahMos: How India Got the World’s Most Powerful Cruise Missile

Rakesh Krishnan Simha - March 9, 2021

The history of arms development in India is littered with the debris of numerous stalled projects. The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) project was 30 years late; the jet combat trainer has been shot down...

India-China Disengagement Saga – Managing Chinese Aggression in a New Way

Arpan A Chakravarty - March 7, 2021

Recently, Beijing and New Delhi agreed that both - Chinese and Indian troops at the southern and northern banks of the Pangong Tso Lake should start “synchronised and organised disengagement”. A breakthrough coming after...

High Technology and India-Japan Strategic Cooperation

Dr Titli Basu - March 6, 2021

The power and politics of technology, and its impact on geopolitics and national security, have become more pronounced with the intensifying Sino-US strategic contestation. Beijing’s Made in China 2025 and China Standards 2035 strategies...

Did India Just Win at the Line of Actual Control?

Harsh V. Pant - March 3, 2021

On February 10, after nine rounds of high-level military talks, India and China began partially disengaging from what was the bloodiest (if not the longest) crisis on the Sino-Indian border in the last 50...

Close Shave for Pakistan; Once Again Escapes to be Blacklisted by FATF

Jai Kumar Verma - March 2, 2021

Generally, the countries which fall in ‘grey list’ try hard to come out of it, however, Pakistan which has fallen thrice in the ‘grey list’ tries not to be downgraded to ‘blacklist’ but makes...

The Dragon on the Back Foot

Pranay K Shome - February 28, 2021

The standoff at the Ladakh border between India and China which was triggered in March last year and the subsequent dialing down of tensions and war mongering rhetoric has highlighted the effectiveness of the...

Revisiting Balakot: How the IAF Exposed Pakistan’s Window of Vulnerability

Rakesh Krishnan Simha - February 27, 2021

The daring raid by the Indian Air Force on February 26, 2019 in Balakot, deep inside Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, didn’t just destroy the training camps of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group. More significantly, the strike...

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