China is the subtext as Modi and Biden discuss mutual strategic interests, trade, and technology
In a massively hyped visit, Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister, was received at the White House where he held discussions with US President Joe Biden. The US sought to bring India further into its strategy of encircling China
Can China and the United States establish mutual respect to lessen tensions?
China’s Defense Minister has made it clear that his government is open to dialogue with the US. However, he has put forward a precondition – mutual respect
For India, a frank talk with Biden on Ukraine may help
If India is dead serious in its mission to bring peace to the steppes along the Dnieper River, the thing to avoid is any temptation to do grandstanding, to create optics or to insert into the news cycle for its own sake. Instead it should talk to the US
Indo-Pacific power dynamic in radical shift
The recent joint air patrol by Russia and China displayed a very high level of military cooperation at a juncture when the two countries are facing new provocations and added pressure from the US
India, US have different priorities
India has sensed that an epochal global struggle for ascendancy by the US and its western allies versus Russia and China has broken out in Ukraine
US war hysteria over Ukraine won’t gel
A new level of criticality has appeared lately in Donbass with large scale mobilization by Ukrainian forces and reports of western mercenaries in the guise of military advisors. The US intentions remain unclear
2021: A year of US warmongering against China
The Biden administration continues to heat up the new Cold War with bellicose threat, unfounded accusations, and fulfilled promises of a more multilateral approach against China
AUKUS, Quad and India’s losing the plot internationally
Australia has joined the US and UK’s plans to contain China, leaving India unsure in the Quad and isolated in Asia. Tied to a waning imperial power, the US, India is gradually losing strategic autonomy
QUAD, AUKUS and the new ‘rules-based’ international order
The QUAD alliance has declared its intention to uphold the rules-based international order. What does this mean? NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha analyzes the grouping, as well the recently-announced AUKUS grouping
Understanding the Australia-UK-US alliance
Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha analyses the recently announced AUKUS alliance and its positions on China. He also talks about the role of European powers and the economic consolidation of Eurasia
Activists denounce AUKUS alliance as a possible new Cold War and other stories
Today we look at the military pact between Australia, the US, and the UK; sanctions imposed against Guinea’s military junta; and more
Activists, anti-war groups slam trilateral security alliance AUKUS as anti-China move and a return to Cold War
China too slammed the move calling it an “extremely irresponsible” act which may lead to an arms race. It also said that the move reflects “Cold war mentality and ideological biases”
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