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The writer is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. The views expressed here are personal.
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo: File/AP)Opinion
    China threat: Trap, penetrate, destroy

    Things are vastly different today, thanks to the ongoing multilateral trade negotiations and bilateral proposals.

    11 Jan 2018 1:46 AM IST

    Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Watch out for Land of Morning Warning'

    Japan is universally known as the Land of the Rising Sun and the Korean peninsula as the Land of Morning Calm.

    5 Jan 2018 12:10 AM IST

    India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)Opinion
    What's behind Moscow's new advisory to New Delhi over Beijing's OBOR?

    The South China Sea is not Chinese, there are several claimant littoral maritime states.

    22 Dec 2017 1:06 AM IST

    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi with Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
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    It should be noted Wang showed a lot of warmth on his arrival and gave a warning on his departure.

    15 Dec 2017 3:28 AM IST

    India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)Opinion
    India vs China at sea: Why subs are critical

    India has 14 imported subs as compared to 54 indigenous and 12 imported subs of the PLA Navy.

    4 Dec 2017 12:25 AM IST

    Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and president of opposition National Conference (NC), Farooq Abdullah (Photo: PTI)Opinion
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    It reveals the psyche of self-demeaning and self-defeating sections of the leadership, either suffering from an...

    23 Nov 2017 2:02 AM IST

    Newly arrived Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and some Bangladeshi sympathizers walk across a makeshift bridge continuing their journey in to camp for refugees in Teknaf, Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Migrants, refugees... Just look at our history!

    India has repeatedly been invaded over ages. In the last 1,000 years alone, as many as 40 major invasions occurred.

    13 Nov 2017 12:23 AM IST

    Maharaja Hari Singh (Photo: Google)Opinion
    Give the interlocutor a chance

    One would, nevertheless, have condoned or ignored Pakistani malevolence had the violence ceased today.

    1 Nov 2017 3:28 AM IST

    Seven Navy sailors were missing and at least two, including the captain, were injured after the U.S. destroyer collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan before dawn Saturday, the US Navy and Japanese coast guard reported. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Japan: Indian Navy's best partner?

    Abe's dream to transform his country's self-defence forces into a full-fledged military that can play a proper role in...

    25 Oct 2017 12:48 AM IST

    On the afternoon on August 28th, India has pulled back all the trespassing personnel, equipment to the Indian side of the boundary, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said. (Photo: File)Opinion
    Some questions that Beijing needs to answer

    China often tends to forget it is a people's republic and still in name a Communist nation, though of course it is all...

    12 Oct 2017 12:12 AM IST

    In this file photo, an Indian Air Forces (IAF) AN-32 transport aircraft releases chaff as it flies past the IAF Day Parade in New Delhi, India. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    IAF at 85, but no indigenous fighter yet

    HAL at present produces eight platforms per year, which will go up to 16 from 2019-2020 .

    3 Oct 2017 2:22 AM IST

    US President Barack Obama greets Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan at the Republic Day celebrations in January 2015. The Marshal is accompanied by his staff officer, Wing Commander Mohan Rana.India
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    21 Sept 2017 2:08 AM IST

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