China recently conducted a test involving a swarm of loitering munitions, also often referred to as suicide drones, deployed from a box-like array of tubular launchers on a light tactical ve... Read more
Asian Emerging Markets Must Brace for Coming Wave of Ratings Downgrades – And Debt Defaults
This has been a topsy-turvy year for emerging markets. After a coronavirus-induced sudden stop of capital flows in the spring, investors soon returned, encouraged by the dramatic easing by t... Read more
The Future of Chinese Power
What kind of superpower will China be? That’s the question of the 21st century. According to American leaders such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, China will be a rapacious authoritarian... Read more
India Russia Partnership in Nuclear Energy
Although the first prime minister of India Jawahar Lal Nehru was a self-proclaimed socialist-inspired during the days of the country’s freedom struggle by the transformation of the Soviet Un... Read more
China on their Radar, India, Japan, US, Australia to hold Quad Meet on Oct 6
Foreign ministers of the Quad, the informal security forum comprising India, the US, Japan and Australia, are expected to hold a much-awaited meeting in Tokyo on October 6 with the objective... Read more
Mythical Dragon,Real Dragon,Real China (All Parts) By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Part -1 MYTHS, REALITY AND CHOKERS Myths and Reality Xi’s Call. China is real. The dragon is mythical. However, we will stick to the real China in this analysis. In May, Xi Jinping called... Read more
Indo-Pacific strategy gains support as China’s assertiveness fuels fears
Asia-Pacific nations are adjusting their defence strategies and looking to strengthen security ties with the United States, as anxiety grows over China’s assertiveness and a potential confli... Read more
Fincen Files — On US Radar: Dawood Ibrahim’s Financier, His Laundering, Funding of Lashkar, Jaish
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the US regulatory agency for enforcing money laundering laws, has uncovered a web of transactions of a flourishing money laundering network... Read more
Amid China’s recent feuds with multiple nations including the ongoing border standoff with India, a media report has claimed that a database compiled by a Chinese tech company has at l... Read more
Why is Germany wading into the Indo-Pacific’s strategic waters?
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had barely wrapped up the Berlin leg of his five-nation European trip last week when Germany unveiled a major strategic shift. Wang had been in Europe trying... Read more