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India risks losing its military hold on Maldives: Anti-Indian sentiment is surging in island-nation over Delhi’s creeping military presence and perceptions of big brother bullying0
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- October 10, 2020
by Seema Sengupta October 3, 2020 https://asiatimes.com/2020/10/india-risks-losing-its-military-hold-on-maldives/ India has a long-standing strategic relationship with neighboring Maldives that is now under threat amid a surge in anti-Indian sentiment. Image: Facebook CALCUTTA – When India dispatched a battalion of para-commandos to neighboring Maldives to put down an attempted coup in November 1988, the intervening soldiers were by and large
READ MOREAnother assets scandal, more silence by Pakistani elite0
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- September 5, 2020
Asia Times Despite documentary evidence, mainstream media allege an Indian conspiracy against CPEC by Imad Zafar September 2, 2020 The family of retired Lieutenant-General Asim Saleem Bajwa, shown here at a press conference in 2016, allegedly has a business empire overseas. Metin Aktas / Anadolu Agency On August 27, Pakistani investigative journalist Ahmad Noorani dropped
READ MORERussia may be withholding missile deliveries to China0
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- August 3, 2020
Asia Times Moscow has reputedly stalled on shipping S-400 mobile missile defense systems to Beijing as ties strained by various controversies by Frank Chen July 29, 2020 The Russian-made S-400 missile system in a file photo. Image: Twitter Are cracks appearing in Russia-China ties after the People’s Liberation Army’s border skirmishes with India and an
READ MOREDid India attack China by proxy in Pakistan?0
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- July 29, 2020
Balochistan Liberation Army’s recent attack on Pakistan’s China-run stock exchange reputedly orchestrated by Delhi to hit Beijing by FM Shakil July 29, 2020 Balochistan Liberation Army fighters at an undisclosed location in a file photo. The group recently claimed responsibility for a June 29 attack on Pakistan’s stock market in Karachi. Photo: AFP PESHAWAR –
READ MOREIran jolts India to activate US sanctions loophole0
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- July 24, 2020
Tehran threatens to pass over India for China, seeking to reactivate the Chabahar port investment project by Kaveh Afrasiabi July 24, 2020 Asia Times Iranian President Hassan Rouhani inspects a guard of honor during a ceremonial reception at the Indian Presidential palace in New Delhi on February 17, 2018. Photo: Money Sharma/AFP Earlier this month,
READ MORETerritorial nationalism a dead end for Modi0
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- July 8, 2020
Indian leader seems incapable of differentiating his domestic popularity and strategic decision-making by Bhim Bhurtel July 8, 2020 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to troops during his visit to Nimu in the territory of Ladakh. Photo: AFP / Indian Press Information Bureau The Indian press reported that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) fell
READ MOREASEAN finally pushes back on China’s sea claims0
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- June 30, 2020
Regional grouping fires salvo at China with new insistence South China Sea disputes must be settled as US demands under UNCLOS by Richard Javad Heydarian June 30, 2020 An Indonesian officer on guard in front of a naval vessel in a file photo. Photo: Twitter MANILA – In a sign of rising resistance to China’s
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Exclusive: Leader of Pakistani Kashmir speaks out0
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- June 7, 2020
Farooq Haider Khan on Ladakh crisis, Covid-19, and Pakistan’s failed foreign policy In an Asia Times exclusive, Imdar Zafar speaks to Raja Farooq Haider Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistani Kashmir, on the standoff between India and China in Ladakh, the Kashmir issue and other pressing issues. by Imad Zafar May 31, 2020 Raja Farooq Haider Khan is
READ MOREIndian Navy benefits from Pentagon paranoia over China1
US government in a hurry to get new sub-hunting helicopters into the hands of the Indian Navy by Dave Makichuk May 20, 2020 To say the Pentagon is concerned about China’s military expansion would be an understatement — just ask the Indian Navy. According to a report by Paul McLeary for Breaking Defense, the US
READ MORECovid-19 tilts the future toward Asia1
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- May 18, 2020
Asia returns to work while America struggles to regain its footing in what looks like a historical tipping point by Scott Foster May 14, 2020 Test and you will find not only more Covid-19 infections but also so wide a gap between successful responses to the virus in East Asia and catastrophic ones in the
READ MOREWhy East beat West on Covid-190
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- May 16, 2020
East Asia has handled and contained the pandemic far better than the West on nearly all metrics by Andrew Salmon May 15, 2020 Perhaps the most startling trend visible in the global Covid-19 pandemic is the vast differential separating East Asia from the West when it comes to the disease’s impact. The chasm is visible
READ MORECovid-19 threatens to spark biodefense arms race0
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- May 12, 2020
A new regulatory framework is desperately needed to address emerging biotech dual-use challenges by Christina Lin May 12, 2020 Last month the Donald Trump administration cut US National Institute of Health (NIH) funding to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, the laboratory now embroiled in controversy over the origin of Covid-19. The project was run by EcoHealth Alliance,
READ MOREReligious tension in India0
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- April 22, 2020
Indian writer Arundhati Roy accused the Indian government of using social unrest during the coronavirus crisis to encourage “genocidal” behavior toward Muslims. Many political experts say Roy’s criticism goes too far. Speaking to DW on Friday, renowned writer Arundhati Roy was scathing in her criticism of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying that the
READ MOREWhy US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan0
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- April 22, 2020
by Christina Lin April 22, 2020 US-funded $3.7 million project approved by Trump’s Covid-19 guru Dr Anthony Fauci in 2015 after US ban imposed on ‘monster-germ’ research by Christina Lin April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded bat-coronavirus research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to the
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