By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: An expansionist China has now picked up a fresh border dispute with Himalayan nation Bhutan in an apparent attempt to target India with whom the Asian giant has been locked in a bitter military conflict eastern Ladakh since May. The problem started in […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the author’s. The writer is a Defence.Capital reader. For her other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Uma Sudhindra “Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear […]
By N. C. Bipindra and Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India and China today achieved a break-through in their Ladakh conflict with the Chinese army soldiers pulling back by nearly two kilometres from their two-month eyeball-to-eyeball positions of confrontation at almost all locations along the de facto borders, except […]
By Ayaskant Das New Delhi: Chinese Communist Party (CCP)and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) use data collected about Indians, and through mobile 5G networks, as a weapon and these technologies are clearly a spying tool for India‘s northern neighbour, according to experts and thinkers on India’s national security. […]
(Editor’s Note: Opinions expressed are that of the writer’s) By Lieutenant Colonel Manoj K. Channan Since evolution, man has always been fighting a bitter battle for survival. Be it nature, wildlife, fellow human beings and now the minuscule and deadly Coronavirus. From stones to bones and the advent […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: On a day India said it was trying to de-escalate border tension with China in eastern Ladakh, the Asian giant added fuel to fire by repeating its claims over the Galwan Valley, the site of the June 25 bloody brawl in which 20 […]
(Editor’s Note: Opinions expressed are that of the writer’s) By Lieutenant Colonel Manoj K. Channan Post June 15/16 clash this year, China and India have reviewed and played up their ‘Perception Management’. The lull in the activities had seen some Indian soldiers in Chinese captivity being released, as […]
(Editor’s Note: The opinions are that of the writer’s.) By Lieutenant General Vinod Bhatia On 17 June 2020, as news of the casualties of Sino-Indian military clash in the Galwan valley shocked India, Clausewitz‘s ghost tweeted an ominous warning from his treatise, ‘On War‘: “Military forces in contact can […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi today clarified the nation had lost no territory to China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, amidst a continuing border face-off between the militaries of nuclear-armed Asian neighbors. Indian Army had lost 20 of […]
(Editor’s Note: Updated overnight with India’s official statement in paragraph 23 on China’s claim over entire Galwan valley in Ladakh, where the two armies’ soldiers clashed on Jun. 15.) New Delhi: A day after India lost 20 soldiers in a bloody clash with Chinese military personnel, Prime Minister […]
New Delhi: A miffed India today downplayed a provocation from Nepal, made ostensibly at the behest of China, as the Himalayan country approved a map showing parts of Indian territory as its own. The controversy over the map, showing Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura as Nepalese territory amidst a […]
New Delhi: The new, emerging World Order will witness an economic and a diplomatic cold war between the current global power, the United States, and the rising competitor, China, even as the latter would try to either upstage the former as the leader of international institutions such as […]