AUKUS triggers diplomatic churn, India adopts strategic silence
In a dramatic move that has created ripples in the region and the international strategic community, the US, UK and Australia have forged a trilateral security partnership that aims at bolstering defence and security cooperation among the three democracies of the Indo-Pacific region. The announcement of “AUKUS” seems to have been strategically timed ahead of […]
With Taliban on mind, Modi asks SCO to forge template against extremism
By Shweta Aggarwal DUSHANBE/NEW DELHI: In pointed remarks aimed at the Taliban, Prime Minister Narendra Modi singled out radicalisation as the biggest threat to the region and exhorted the nine-nation SCO to forge a template to combat extremism. “I believe that the biggest challenges in this area are related to peace, security and trust-deficit and […]