IAF Tezpur Base Centre Of Chain To Foil Any Chinese Intrusion In The East
IAF TEZPUR BASE: In the second part of our series, ‘Eastern Front Airpower’, we document 24 hours in the professional life of the air warriors of Indian Air Force Station, Tezpur in the Eastern Air Command. This documentary, filmed on the IAF base in Tezpur and other stations and areas in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh looks at […]
‘Logic, Reason Can Go For A Toss When The Chinese Negotiate’
NEW DELHI: Diplomats driving a hard bargain isn’t unusual but when the negotiators are Chinese, there’s a twist to the story. While negotiators of other countries bargain in their national interest, their counterparts from China keep only the interests of the Chinese Communist Party in mind. The law in China demands that diplomats or civil […]
Need Green Funding, Tech Transfer For Countries Like India: Danish Envoy
NEW DELHI: As part of the green strategic partnership signed with India last year, Denmark is collaborating across sectors such as wind energy, drinking water management and smart cities, says Denmark’s Ambassador to India Freddy Svane. Expressing concern over climate change on World Environment Day, he told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale that all […]
Taliban Dictating Terms In Afghanistan?
NEW DELHI: Amidst speculation that Islamabad and Washington are in talks to allow U.S. bases in Pakistan to facilitate counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan once foreign troops withdraw, the Taliban has warned Afghanistan’s neighbours to not allow what it calls a ‘historic mistake’. Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has told parliament his government would never […]
‘China Is Facing A Crisis Of Legitimacy In Tibet’
China’s new white paper on Tibet is the 15th in a series that began in 1992, and one can presume more will happen. At one level it would appear to reflect China’s confidence in its hold over Tibet and what it has accomplished since it invaded and occupied the roof of the world 70 years […]
‘Level Of Regime Violence, Lawlessness Uniting People Against Lukashenko’
NEW DELHI: May 29 marks one year since the start of protests in Belarus against President Aleksandr Lukashenko. A harsh crackdown last year has intensified after his disputed August 2020 reelection. Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist since 1994, won his sixth term in office. Forced into exiled, opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, […]
‘Nobody’s Safe Until Everybody’s Safe’
Italy was the first country to be hit by the Coronavirus pandemic, and after seeing successive waves, has only recently stabilised. In the process, they have learnt a lot about the virus and how to tackle it, and that invaluable experience is being shared with India. For as Vincenzo de Luca, Italy’s ambassador to India […]
Ceasefire No Solution To Nagorno-Karabakh Problem, Can’t Be A One-Sided Truce: Azerbaijan
NEW DELHI: Armenia and Azerbaijan have been blaming each other for not respecting a ceasefire that was agreed to with the U.S. in a trilateral meeting and kicked in at 08:00 a.m. local time (12:00 a.m. EDT) on October 26, 2020. Leyla Abdullayeva, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, says “Armenian Armed Forces blatantly violated the ceasefire, […]