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

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

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…

Modi Playing a High-Risk Game as He Stands Firm with US and Takes Aim at China

Modi Playing a High-Risk Game as He Stands Firm with US and Takes Aim at China

Having signed a new military agreement with the US, Indian PM Narendra Modi is moving ever closer to the west and further away from Beijing. But his bid to position India as a rival superpower to China will be hard to pull off. On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark…

India Lost Its Last Chance to ‘Save Face’ Before China

India Lost Its Last Chance to ‘Save Face’ Before China

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…

It Was Inevitable That India Would Seek to Actively ‘Contain’ China

It Was Inevitable That India Would Seek to Actively ‘Contain’ China

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…

India’s Latest Infowar on Russia Concerns Fake Chinese Territorial Claims

India’s Latest Infowar on Russia Concerns Fake Chinese Territorial Claims

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…