India’s opposition parties – a motley crew of national and regional outfits that are in power in at least 14 of the country’s 28 states – have sounded a clarion call ahead of next year’s key general election. Leaders from 20-odd parties are set to assemble in the eastern Indian state of Bihar’s capital, Patna,…
Influential BJP ideologue Subramanian Swamy published an unprecedentedly vitriolic screed against Russia which spits in the face of their decades-long strategic partnership by arguing that Moscow is an irresponsible imperialist power that’s historically exploited New Delhi’s naive leaders, but the reality is that these two Great Powers are presently enjoying a renaissance in their relations…
India Lost Its Last Chance To ‘Save Face’ Before China India could have followed the Chinese Defense Ministry’s suggestion to investigate the first-ever firearm discharge near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in almost half a century, which could have helped New Delhi “save face” before Beijing by de-escalating this extremely dangerous situation that it’s…
There’s no longer any doubt that India seeks to actively “contain” China after the latest incident between Asia’s two most populous countries over the weekend along the Line of Actual Control, though the resultant trajectory of tensions between them wasn’t an unfortunate turn of events like many have portrayed it as, but an inevitability for…
Indian media is aggressively propagating the fake news narrative that China allegedly laid official claim to both Vladivostok and half of Russia’s CSTO mutual defense ally Tajikistan, but this is factually false reporting based solely on the internet posts of private Chinese citizens and not anything that their formal representatives ever said, yet it’s nevertheless…
These easily discernible strategic chain reactions were regrettably missed by many experts owing either to unfamiliarity with the guiding motivations of each related party and/or pressure to comply with the so-called “political correctness” being pushed by some of the players whereby it was previously considered “taboo” to criticize Indian-Iranian relations or rely upon factual evidence…
