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Pakistan Made a Compelling Case That India Is a State Sponsor of Terrorism

November 16, 2020

Pakistan released a detailed dossier during a press conference on Saturday strongly making the case that India is a state sponsor of terrorism whose intelligence services have weaponized this phenomen…

American Advances, Indian and Chinese Money Force Sri Lanka into Difficult Choice

November 14, 2020

Opinion

For several years now, there has been an intense phase of political and economic struggle between the United States and China. PRC claims to be the new major superpower and seeks to push America out o…

America Versus China

November 13, 2020

Opinion

On October 27 U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo spoke with Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief of India’s news website The Print in an interview that descended into an anti-China diatribe by Pompeo, who was f…

India and ASEAN to Create a B&R Alternative?

November 13, 2020

Opinion

Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or B&R), a global transport and economic project, is well known world-wide. While some countries endorse it, many others consider it a form of Chinese expansi…

Mike Pompeo Looks to Expand Quad

November 12, 2020

Opinion

Central to the last foreign tour of US State Secretary Mike Pompeo in a number of Asian countries was a visit to India, where he and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper participated in another two-way mee…

Extreme Pro-US BJP Ideologues Mustn’t be Allowed to Sabotage Russian-Indian Relations

November 10, 2020

Opinion

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 a…

With an Eye on China, India Cuts Iran Loose & Embraces the US

November 9, 2020

Opinion

India, tied as it to the US apron strings, has suffered a major strategic set-back in Iran where not only has it potentially lost exclusive development rights and control of the strategically importan…

The US’ Alliance With India Is a Bipartisan Issue of Grand Strategic Importance

November 2, 2020

Opinion

The US' alliance with India will remain a mainstay of its grand strategy regardless of who wins next week's elections since it's a bipartisan issue of the highest importance for its permanent military…