Washington: US President Joe Biden has called two of his QUAD partners – India and Japan – and two of his adversaries – Russia and China – “xenophobic” nations, asserting that none of these countries, unlike the United States, welcome immigrants. “This election is about freedom, America and democracy. That’s why I badly need you. … Read more
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi on March 10, 2023. | Photo Credit: R. V. Moorthy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on May 17 said that his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi would still travel next week to Australia despite the cancellation of … Read more
File picture of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo. | Photo Credit: AP Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday he will host President Joe Biden and the leaders of India and Japan for a security summit next month. The … Read more
Beijing: China‘s Foreign Minister Qin Gang urged Japan to refrain from supporting US efforts to suppress the Chinese semiconductor industry, while his counterpart pressed for the swift return of a Japanese citizen detained by Beijing. During a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi in Beijing on Sunday, Qin said a chip blockade will only … Read more
China on Tuesday insisted that it is still India‘s biggest trade partner in 2021-22 as per its figures and attributed the “disparity” to different methods of calculating the trade volume by New Delhi and Beijing while referring to reports that the US has unseated it to take the top slot. “According to the statistics of … Read more
A senior White House official said on Friday India’s position at the United Nations over the crisis in Ukraine has been “unsatisfactory” but was also unsurprising given its historical relationship with Russia. Mira Rapp-Hooper, director for the Indo-Pacific on the White House National Security Council, told a panel discussion it was necessary to provide India … Read more
Images Credit: (Mrs) Amb Narinder Chauhan By (Mrs) Amb Narinder Chauhan, Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, UK, from 31 October to 12 November 2021, lots of wake-up calls are being sounded across the World. COP26 is short for the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, and this is the 26th iteration. It is … Read more
The Quad will play an important role for the concept of mission assurance. By Kazuto Suzuki, On March 12, the leaders of Quad – Japan, US, India and Australia – met for the first summit meeting. Although the Quad is not based on treaty or legally binding documents, it existed since 2006 as a framework … Read more
WASHINGTON: The US has said that it does not view its relationships with India and Pakistan as a “zero-sum proposition” and welcomed the steps taken by New Delhi to return the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to full economic and political normalcy consistent with India’s democratic values. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price also told … Read more
New Delhi: India on Wednesday pitched for widening cooperation with old strategic ally Russia across various geographical regions – Eurasia, Indo-Pacific and the Russian Far East, and the Arctic and sought Moscow’s support towards a free and open Indo-Pacific region. This message, delivered by foreign secretary Harsh V Shringla during his high-level meetings in Moscow … Read more