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The writer is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. The views expressed here are personal.

This is the second such agreement that the Indian Air Force has signed for buying okayed airframes that will help one of the most potent aircraft fleets to continue for longer in service. (ANI)

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Celebrate the IAF@89, it's time for desi touch

Indian policy or strategy certainly can no longer bank on the 22-day or 14-day wars of 1965 and 1971

6 Oct 2021 1:20 AM IST

Taliban fighters wave from the back of a pickup truck, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Many Afghans are anxious about the Taliban rule and are figuring out ways to get out of Afghanistan. (AP /Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi)

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Terrorists to state's men': Will UN go...

Put simply, the Taliban members of the new Afghan 'state' have blood on their hands

15 Sept 2021 2:14 AM IST

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Taiwan, Tibet to Taliban: Chinese mischief...

The concept of 'trust, faith and confidence' in India-China ties have all but evaporated

25 Aug 2021 12:48 AM IST

Clearly, the various bans and other edicts by the Indian government to keep out Chinese-made products in the aftermath of the Galwan attack in June 2020 had no practical effect in the marketplace. Representational Image.

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | India needs to tackle China the way that it...

Blind or not, Indians appear supinely negligent to the Chinese threat

26 July 2021 2:56 AM IST

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | CPC: Party is the state and state is the party

Today, the CPC has all but forgotten the revolution and transformed itself into the establishment in the People's...

1 July 2021 12:52 AM IST

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | China is many things, but it's definitely not...

The barbarians deserve contempt and should be made to kowtow before the Beijing durbar

23 Jun 2021 12:00 AM IST

The WHO and international bodies have now, belatedly, started an investigation into the origins of the virus, but its credibility has already hit rock bottom in the eyes of most people in the affected nations. (Representational image: AP)

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Why China needs to pay reparations to the...

No one is quite sure what lies in store for the world's second most populous country six months from now

4 Jun 2021 1:55 AM IST

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | India, world in middle of a Third World War'

It's not just India. The world is in the midst of a long-drawn, protracted Third World War

10 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

India and China have been locked in a prolonged standoff in the area in the Sikkim sector since June 16 after Chinese troops began constructing a road near the Bhutan trijunction. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | China is on the rampage: Is India's elite...

On the Republic Day eve, it was clear the Dragon's aim and design was to devastate Delhi, to bleed India white and to...

30 Jan 2021 7:25 AM IST

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After horrors of 2020, is 2021 the year of...

Out-of-season foods have become scarce on supermarket shelves as labour is disrupted and crops are at risk of rotting in...

2 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Language row led to a new nation 49 yrs ago

Jinnah's toxic temper, mixed with arrogance, sowed the seeds of irreversible Bengali nationalism in the world's most...

16 Dec 2020 9:05 AM IST

All the hopes pinned on Prime Minister Modis AtmaNirbhar Bharat and Make in India drives would have been eviscerated had we been in RCEP.

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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | RECP: Why India must be firm on staying out

What India has done about the RCEP is perfect. It couldn't be otherwise

26 Nov 2020 4:29 AM IST