Diplomacy

The surprising victory of Donald Trump as the next US President elect, defying all expert predictions, has sent the whole
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In view of escalating tension in Yemen, the Gulf of Aden is witnessing a strong surge of rivalry between Iran and
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China is in Africa for economic reasons. China is home to more than 19 percent of the world’s population but only six
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The violent clash between border forces of Afghanistan and Pakistan at Torkham crossing may appear to have ended,
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The joint Sino-Pak military patrol in north Jammu and Kashmir is essentially a method of formalizing an annexation
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China has got biggest shock to its emerging global superpower image and faced international embarrassment
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The Sultanate of Oman is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and is well-known for its open market policies and an
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In order to strengthen India’s economic linkages, PM Modi recently travelled to four African nations, a direct
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As the churning in  South China Sea  gradually develops into a face to face rivalry between the big powers,
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If materialized, the creation of large-scale militias could plunge the country back into civil war, undo achievements in
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The International maritime fleet review, held on the vast expanse of the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Vishakhapatnam
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Recognizing the gravity of the deepening crisis in the South China Sea, the world’s leading western powers have
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The 16th India-Russia summit in Moscow cleared the path for a few more joint projects in defence sector.
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As widely speculated the Narendra Modi visit to United Kingdom did not result in new contracts for Hawk trainers but the two sides
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India-Russia defence relations are set to receive a boost during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Moscow in the third week of December.
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Two nuclear neighbors in South Asia continue to draw world’s attention for their constant badmouthing towards
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The Malabar-2015 has created fresh ripples in the already rough sea of the Indian Ocean. After a gap of eight years, India
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After nearly a decade of political struggle, the land-locked South Asian nation of Nepal recently passed a constitution.
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Yet another trilateral grouping has emerged along with  India, US, Japan and US, Japan and Australia.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a whirlwind tour to Central Asia on the way to attending the BRICS and SCO
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While the regional countries are grappling hard to stabilize Afghanistan, President Abdul Ghani chooses to obediently
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Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s  much hyped recent visit to China  was not expected to deliver any unexpected
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India has, finally, expressed its displeasure at the Sino-Pak Economic Corridor project intended to link the Pakistan
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The much awaited and desired maritime thrust to India’s foreign policy was witnessed during the three island
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As the geopolitics is picking up in Afghanistan in the post US troop withdrawal, India has taken a renewed position to
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Nepal is a tiny nation traumatized by its bloody past, uneasy present and uncertain future. Six prime ministers and two
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Russian nationalists often comment that the Chinese are expanding into Russian territory of Far East not with tanks or troops but with suitcases.
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A week after castigating India for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh in late February, China talked
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The Obama-Modi meeting before Indian Republic Day in New Delhi resulted in unprecedented three joint statements, rare in bilateral relations
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The Indian Ocean area will be the true nexus of world powers and conflict in the coming years.It is here that the fight for democracy
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A new world order is being created that may significantly change the old equations and alliances between West and Iran on one side
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Since Myanmar is realizing that an increased dependence on China may harm its long term interests in future, there is a growing bonhomie
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Water is going to be a high precious product for next century which can match with the rank of what today hydrocarbon products
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The year 2014 has seen the rise of Narendra Modi on world geo-political scene and his getting closer to the allies of USA
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German politician Martin Schulz who is now President of European Parliament and is visualizing a united Europe which
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Even though the Chinese soldiers were forced to make a retreat in Chumar after the high level diplomatic and political
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The ongoing protest in Hong Kong has shown that China has not learned its lessons from the past, particularly from the Tiananmen
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It was natural for two “natural allies “ to climb within a short span of ten months  from  the lowest ebb of relations during diplomat Devyani
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Defence Trade and Technology Initiative (DTTI) , if implemented in true spirit, will  add anew dimension to India-US defence relations as it has the potentials ofturning
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Qatar has been branded all over Arabian Peninsula as a country that secretly supports many fundamentalist and terror outfits operating in the region and elsewhere as
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The mid-July Sixth Summit of BRICS in Fortaleza has come out with some concrete results on economic front.
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Recent years have witnessed renewed tensions over disputed territories in the South China Sea. In response to China’s encroaching military maneuvers
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The Indo-Pak situation is very much as it was when Narendra Modi’s icon Atal Behari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister. The past year has been replete with
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first foreign visit to Bhutan is a great indication thatthe tiny neighborhood of India will enjoy high priority under
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Beijing may tout its continued military buildup as part of its “peaceful rise” or “peaceful development,” but reactions outside of China have been anything but sanguine.
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One can excuse India for not sending its official representative to the famous Shangri-La Dialogue, held annually in the last week of
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China’s recent standoffwith Vietnam over the placement of a large flotilla of oil rigs in the latter’s EEZ in South China Sea may create
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In diplomatic and strategic arena the new Narendra Modi led government has started on a sound footing with one to one meeting with

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The relations between Myanmar and China that flourished during the days of Military Junta regime in Myanmar have become strained with the suspension of Myitsone dam.
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Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit’s recent comments in Mumbai on the possibility of a resolution of the Siachen issue
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Though the third NSA level meeting of India, Sri Lanka and Maldives has not attracted much media attention unlike the similar meetings between India
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Hopes galore after the new government in Nepal finally saw the light of day which had been delayed for long due to squabbling and in-fighting among the political parties.
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The ‘Indo-Pacific’ region has become a geopolitical reality as the risks, opportunities, disputes and strategies concerning relevant nations
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China is looking for new ways to impress India as it feels threatened by the growing proximity of India with Japan, South Korea and United States.
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Both China and India are two of the fastest growing economies attracting a tremendous amount of global attention. Since the past decade pulsating economic links has been a vital part of their bilateral partnership.
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The scenes on the streets of Bangladesh that the world has been witnessing in the previousmonths depict the mood of a pseudo-democratic nation that is hanging
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That the new Maldivian President Yameen Abdul Gayoom chose to make his first official visit abroad to New Delhi in the very first week of the year 2014 was enough indication that he wants to mend fences with India and
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At a time when Myanmar is experiencing an unprecedented transformation, the ASEAN countries have agreed to let it take on the
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Last year the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of National Defence announced the creation of the East China Sea Air Defence Identification
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For a nation that depends on other nations for its energy needs, it must ensure security and independence in the SLOC’s (Sea Lines of Communication).
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After intense speculation, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed Lt General Raheel Sharif as the new Chief of Army Staff (CoAS). He indeed reached
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The visit of the Japanese emperor Akihito to India in November end was a reaffirmation ofevolving strategic partnership with India which
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Though  the newly elected President Abdulla Yameen Gayoom has assured Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of giving priority
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The much awaited commissioning of the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya and its handing over to the Indian Navy as an Indian warship is all
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At a time when the region of South-East Asia is engulfed in geopolitical instability and economic sluggishness, the recent APEC and ASEAN
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The Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA) signed during the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to China is
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During the 21st October 14th  annual summit in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke of
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The trials in Bangladesh for the war crimes committed during the country’s liberation war of 1971 have brought Bangladesh back to a crossroads
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The recent developments in Cambodian politics signal a troubled future for the country’s already volatile political legacy.
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Efforts to normalize relations between India and Pakistan have once again been initiated withTrack-2 and back channel diplomacy.

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The year 2014 is going to be very crucial for the people of Afghanistan. The developments over next one year will have far reaching consequences
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Seven years after the last Indian defence minister visited China, A K Antony landed in Beijingin the first week of July 2013 with a welcoming

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Bhutan is finally awakening from its long, tranquil sleep and slowly facing the realities of geo-strategic politics and international

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The anti-government protests in Turkey have posed a grave challenge for Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan’s grip on power. Its ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is being accused of pushing

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China has further strengthened its strategic grip over Sri Lanka, as the President MahindaRajapaksa during his May end visit to Beijing, his sixth after the elimination of LTTE leaders and hardcore cadres,

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The ASEAN meeting in Brunei has ended with a joint communiqué which promises that ASEAN and China will work more closely to find an amicable solution to South ChinaSea dispute after Beijing agreed that it is

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At a time when the US Defence Secretary Chuck Hegel was elaborating the Pivot to Asia policy renamed as Rebalancing Asia, during the Shangri- la dialogue in Singapore in the first week of June, the Indian defence

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Amidst the race to lure nations in its camp in the fast changing geopolitical equations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh  charted a path breaking visit to Japan, sending strong signals to China, whose leaders were obviously perturbed by the developing proximity between India and Japan.
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Babies have short attention spans. Congressmen are even worse. A couple of months ago legislators were outraged over the willingness of President Barack Obama to ignore the Constitution by going to war in Libya. Now the issue is all but forgotten.
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It is a good news that South Sudan is born as 193rd country among the comity of nations but what is the future of this tiny landlocked nation which needs a long way to go.
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The Strategic Dialogue between India and the United States has gained salience in the context of the emerging international and regional security environment. The timing of the second Indo-US Strategic Dialogue,
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Even after four years wait for the newly elected Constituent Assembly todraft a constitution, Nepal’s squabbling political parties have not been able to agree on the shape of a Constitution or even what the future of this small Himalayan nation would be.
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Amid Chinese Prime Minister’s decision to land on Indian soil on his first foreign trip on 20th May, 2013 and the warmth displayed by the newChinese President Xi Jin Ping during his meeting with the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the Durban BRICS Summit,
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The tumultuous welcome and Head of State like reception extended to the opposition democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi in India and a week later the visit of the US President Barack Obama to Naypyidaw in mid November,has put Myanmar in centre stage of world politics.
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Will the new leadership of China reset its ties with India under its proposed Look West Policy? The country is undergoing a leadership change, which is expected to come into effect from March 2013.
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For a nation as obsessed with “strategic depth” as is Pakistan, its Achilles heel will forever remain within India’s reach.
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Wikileaks going public, since December 2010, on US State Department confidential cables is more than just stifling embarrassment for the Obama Administration because it is neither the precipitation of the historic era of cyber war-fare in full media glare, nor the challenging of a century old world order premised on state supremacy.
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From the very first Nuclear explosion in 1974 India became a target of US administrations which imposed many export controls on India for high technology goods and the intense Cold War between the US and Russia led further isolation of India, which became severe in the post 1998 Pokhrannuclear explosion.
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Conventional wisdom would suggest that demolishing China’s dug-in positions along the Line of Actual Control would deter, disperse and dissuade the People’s Liberation Army from carrying out its emerging policy of territorial aggrandizement all along its periphery at carefully selected moments.
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India has extended its defence cooperation agreement with Mongolia by another ten years. The two countries had signed the defence agreement for a decade in 2001 and President Pratibha Patil’s visit to Ulanbaatar was very appropriately timed to ink the defence cooperation pact for another decade.
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The revelations about Chinese Navy challenging Indian warship INS Airavat in South China Sea, while returning from a goodwill visit to Vietnam, has once again drawn international attention on the hardening attitude of China on the South China Sea and raised concerns that this will raise tensions in the maritime region.
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With the reemergence of India friendly Shinzo Abe as the Prime Minister of Japan along with sinking Sino-Japanese ties over the Senkaku-Diaoyu islands and a very assertive behavior of China in the South and East China Sea, the strategic community would be keeping a close watch over the evolving India-Japan relations.
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With most of the India’s immediate neighborhood gradually getting engulfed in internal strife and political instability, Bangladesh offershope and opportunity for India to expand its policy of cooperative partnership without seeking any reciprocal rewards and thus create for itself a congenial atmosphere for its national development and increase its regional and international clout.
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The India-Israel defence cooperation received a major boost with the visit of the facilities in Israel by the Indian Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal N A K Browne on 22nd January, 2013.
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The specter of post 2014 Afghanistan is haunting the regional powers. The Great American retreat is perhaps forcing the allies and enemies of Taliban to discuss their fate on a common platform. The Americans and their western allies may be living in illusion that Afghanistan will continue to be ruled by the democratic forces.
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The French government’s decision to sell several Mistral-class amphibious warships to Russia has aroused concerns that the Russian Navywill use the vessels to intimidate or even invade its neighbors. Yet, the ship would add little to Russia’s already substantial military advantage over many other countries.
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China’s assertive rise in the first decade of the twenty-first century has been unequivocal in its economic and strategic rise. As China’s economic growth burgeoned, its resources sourcing outreach increased in dramatic dimensions.
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On the invitation of Bangladesh, China which has been eyeing for a navalbase in Bay of Bengal has decided to initially develop Sonadia Islands as a deep sea port for Bangladesh which may later turn out to be anotherGwadar-giving a high voltage headache to Indian defence establishment.
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China’s once-a-decade leadership change in November brought to focus theopaque character of Chinese politics and what direction it will take inyears to come, given the underneath tensions in the heavily guarded Chinese polity which are now being realized in public domain.
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