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Xi’s Re-election: Opportunity For World, Curse For China
China is gearing up for the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party to be held later this year. According to the consensus view, President Xi Jinping’s historic bid…
By Cdr Sandeep Dhawan (Retd)
Changing Contours of Germany-China Relations
There is much attention currently focused on Germany's changing policy towards Russia. This includes the energy-security matrix. A review of the German defence policy is also underway. While these are…
By Gurjit Singh
India’s Strategy for a Two Front Threat
Developments around the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has thrown up certain factors that are pertinent to India’s security and the need to find more secure alternatives to our present…
By Preet Malik
Indo-Pacific: The Quad Summit Returns Focus to the World’s Biggest Potential War Theatre
How much the world is nearing a catastrophic confrontation and how intimidated China feels about the response to its coercive aggression in the Indo Pacific, was made evident by the…
By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
Quad leaders meet in Tokyo at 2nd in-person summit
Tokyo, May 24 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders of the United States, Japan and Australia on Tuesday attended the second in-person meeting of Quad leaders here during which…
Lengthening Shadows of the Ukraine Crisis
Wars inflict lifelong misery on innocent population without discriminating young and old, women and children or nationality. Regardless of the outcome, they bear the brunt. This has been the story…
By Lt Gen CA Krishnan (Retd)
United States Outmanoeuvres Russia Once Again?
In a recent briefing, the US Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Avril Haines warned, “I would characterize it as the Russians aren’t winning, and the Ukrainians aren’t winning, and we’re…
By Cdr Sandeep Dhawan (Retd)
BRICS foreign ministers support talks between Russia & Ukraine
New Delhi, May 19 (PTI) The sharp increases in costs of energy, food and commodities due to the "knock-on" effects of the Ukraine conflict must be mitigated to help the…
Britain says Russia has lost a third of its forces in Ukraine
LONDON (Reuters) -Russia has probably lost around a third of the ground forces it deployed to Ukraine and its offensive in the Donbas region "has lost momentum and fallen significantly…
Relatives of fighters in Ukraine steel plant plead for help, Kyiv working on rescue
(Reuters) -Relatives and supporters of Ukrainian fighters in the Azovstal steel plant on Thursday called for fresh efforts to save them as Kyiv said new talks were underway with Moscow…
The Sinking of Moskva – Challenges for Large Surface Ships
The Russian warship cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, sank on 14 April 2022 during the conflict in Ukraine. The ship was hit by two R-360 Neptune…
By Air Marshal Anil Chopra (Retd)
Russian attacks on rail system fail to paralyse ‘lifeline of Ukraine’
By Jonathan Landay FASTIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -A salvo of missiles brought the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine to Fastiv, a quiet town abounding with flowering cherry trees and set in sweeping…
