South China Sea

Putin’s Arctic gambit is to put fire at the US’ door

Ashish Shukla - August 1, 2022

The United States is at its wits’ end to counter Russia. On its Navy Day yesterday, Vladimir Putin promised to revive the memory of Peter...

India-Vietnam ties are significant; and not just for China

Panchmukha - June 9, 2022

India and Vietnam held a 12th round of political consultations and a 9th round of strategic dialogue in Hanoi recently. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs...

Love in Tokyo: When Biden would try to wean Modi away from Russia

Veeresh Malik - April 29, 2022

The Japanese have a citrus dessert called Yuzu Pie. Very topical, because it is also a form of serving humble pie along with the...

Biden’s airstrike in Afghanistan is a murderous tantrum of a loser

Panchmukha - August 14, 2021

In what can only be called a criminal and murderous tantrum by a loser, the United States, on the order of President Joe Biden,...

While we worry on Ladakh, China has poised itself on a village which could cut off India’s northeast

Ashish Shukla - November 29, 2020

We have a WhatsApp group of old colleagues from The Pioneer where I began my career in journalism 40 years ago. We usually stick to...

India-UK emerging military agreement is a sweet revenge of history

Newsbred Staff - October 10, 2020

India, a country which traditionally was wary into entering formal military arrangements with Western powers, now can’t have enough. According to Indian media report, an...

Talks with China would lead nowhere; war is a real deal India must factor in

Sant Kumar Sharma - August 24, 2020

India has not been able to resolve, to its satisfaction, the issues pertaining to aggressions into some areas of Ladakh on our eastern frontier...

Jaishankar confronts Rahul Gandhi within hours of his video-post

Newsbred Staff - July 17, 2020

Foreign Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar today took to twitter to reply to Congress Party’s Rahul Gandhi’s three-minute video on India’s foreign policy. Rahul Gandhi (see...

This is no soap opera that Russia would come and bail out India

Ashish Shukla - June 23, 2020

It’s not as much a matter of choice for India as it is for Russia. India media might be scripting a Russia factor in...

A muscular India gives its army a ‘free hand’ to knock sense in China

Ashish Shukla - June 17, 2020

It would be a grave misjudgement to believe that China has walked over India in a physical showdown in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh...

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