China has a deep “perception” problem
The annual edition of the India-USA joint military exercise “YUDH ABHYAAS” will be held at Auli in Uttarakhand in October 2022. The 18th edition of the bilateral exercise will be held some 100km from...
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The challenges of the Yoon administration’s bold plan for North Korea
Within the framework of diplomatic relations between North Korea and South Korea, the reunification ministry of the Yoon Seok-Yeol administration offered assistance and various measures to strengthen North Korea’s economy. The counterpart is the...
Putin’s personality cult: His role and impact on the Russian foreign policy
More than 30 years have passed since the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Still, Russia which is a pale shadow of the mighty erstwhile Soviet Union has been working on the ideas of “derzhavnost”...
The Kafkaesque world of Afghanistan
While the world’s largest democracy was celebrating its 75 glorious years of existence, an ode to its magnanimous struggle against an empire on which the sun never sets, not far from New Delhi, an...
US- South Korea conducts the largest joint military exercise after 2017
Key highlights of the drill Two allies’ biggest joint drill since 2017. First biggest drill of US-ROK in the region after the Russian invasion and Pelosi’s visit. Aimed to normalise the joint exercises to...
The uncertainty in Russia-Central Asia energy relations since the dissolution of USSR: The Chinese factor
Introduction Because of global and local causes, the Central Asian energy sector has been facing developments and challenges. Central Asia, which was formerly the sole domain of Tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia, has evolved...
Did India just support Argentina’s claim on the Falkland Islands?
Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar, who was on a three-nation trip, visited Argentina from August 25 to 26 at the request of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Worship Cafiero,...
The US Conundrum in the Indo-Pacific
Indo –Pacific region has traversed a long path in graduating from its erstwhile terminology of Asia-Pacific such that now the former not only subsumes the latter but also carries the weight of diverse stakeholders...
Gauging the India-China relationship in the long term
If there is one relationship in Indian diplomacy that has kept India on tenterhooks it is the Indo-China relationship. Starting from the phrase “Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai” during the Nehru-Zhou Enlai era, the current...
Japan set to become one of the world’s biggest defence spenders amid China-Taiwan tensions
Japan is set to approve what could be its biggest increase in defence outlays since the end of the war, putting it on a path to becoming one of the world’s top military spenders....
