Strategic & Defence Analysis

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China from COVID-19 Chaos to Health Silk Road: Is it by Default or Design?

As the world battles with deadly infection rate of novel coronavirus, with global count of affected people crossing one million mark and over 50,000 deaths, China claiming to have crossed its peak of crisis, is using ‘Health Diplomacy’ or ‘Medical Coercion’ to push the…

Opinion: Global Response in Dealing COVID-19: Takeaways for India

China claims to have crossed its peak period of Pandemic. Smaller successful countries enjoy relatively better medical capacities per capita population. The latest epicenters are US & Europe, but the world is anxious of Indian fight against COVID-19 because of…

Looking beyond US-Taliban Peace Deal in Afghanistan

The fact that despite UN Security Council backing the US-Taliban Peace Deal, the US Deputy Permanent Mission in UN acknowledged that the ongoing violence is not conducive to peace process last week. The New York Times had put up a positive…

Interview with Indian General Asthana (ret.): „A campaign of those who are not comfortable with rising India“ Global Review, Germany

I am sharing  my interview by Global Review, (Germany). The interview counters  propaganda by few countries and segment of  foreign media, who criticise India on many internal issues of India like Kashmir,Article 370 and CAA. It also covers Indian view on…

Chinese Impact on Security Dynamics of North East Region of India

Sharing the text of my opinion on the subject. It has been originally published as an opinion on WION News. The URL is as under:- It seems to have been extracted/reproduced by Sangai Express Vietnam, E-PAO.net, webcasted on January…

How secure India will be in 2020?

Sharing my views published by Economic Times (ET Prime) on the subject, on January 05, 2020. While 2019 saw a lot of activities with regard to national security, Balakot strike, abrogation of Art 370, administrative reorganisation of erstwhile state of…