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This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.Today is the 9th of December and here are the headlines.India called for a “peaceful and inclusive Syrian-led political process” which respects the interests and aspirations of all sections of Syrian society, in its first statement today since the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday. Bashar al-Assad fled Syria for Russia after Islamist rebels managed to advance and capture Damascus on Sunday. The Syrian conflict since 2011 had been frozen for the last few years and the Assad regime had managed to stave off any possible insurrection but that changed in the last few days, as the rebels advanced against the Syrian regime's army.The Lok Sabha faced disruptions amid slogans raised by Opposition MPs, leading to an adjournment. In the Rajya Sabha, Leader of the House JP Nadda made a brief statement seeking a discussion on the Soros issue. Meanwhile, Congress has called for a comprehensive debate on the India-China ties, encompassing strategic and economic policies. This comes as a response to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's recent briefing in Lok Sabha on key developments in bilateral relations following the agreement on patrolling along the Line of Actual Control in easter Ladakh.After the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker's election was formally announced in the House today, the Assembly passed the confidence vote in favour of Devendra Fadnavis led government by majority voice vote. BJP MLA Rahul Narvekar was elected as the Speaker unopposed after Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi parties refused to file nomination. The confidence motion in the assembly was accepted as ruling coalition has 237 MLAs in 288 member assembly. The Opposition MVA has placed a formal demand seeking the Leader of Opposition post and the Deputy Speaker post in the Assembly.In its second list of candidates for the Delhi Assembly elections scheduled in February 2025, the Aam Aadmi Party today changed nominees in 20 of the 70 constituencies in the Capital. There are widespread changes in the AAP candidate list, with the ruling party dropping 13 of its sitting MLAs. Two sitting MLAs, Manish Sisodia and Rakhi Bidlan, have been fielded from new constituencies of Jundpura and Manipur, respectively. Avadh Ojha, a popular UPSC coaching teacher and motivational speaker who joined the AAP recently, replaced Manish Sisodia in Patparganj. Meanwhile, Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju said today that the alleged links between the Congress and Hungarian-American businessman should be considered “serious” and urged the opposition party to fight unitedly against “anti-India forces”. He also said the matter should not be viewed through a “political lens.” The BJP minister's statement comes a day after the BJP alleged that former Congress president Sonia Gandhi has links to an organisation financed by the George Soros Foundation and which has backed the idea of Kashmir as an independent nation.This was the Catch Up on 3 Things by The Indian Express.
This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Ichha Sharma.Today is the 3rd of December and here are the headlines.External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar addressed the Lok Sabha today about the recent developments in India-China bilateral relations over the recent agreement on disengagement and patrolling along the Line of Actual Control. Jaishankar said, quote “India-China ties cannot be normal without peace in border areas.” unquote. He also said that the immediate priority was to ensure disengagement from friction points, this has been fully achieved. Jaishankar acknowledged that 2020's disruptions adversely impacted bilateral relations, necessitating recalibrated engagements for long-term peace. Both Houses of Parliament resumed normal proceedings today after a week-long standoff between the government and the Opposition, which ended in a resolution and two Bills are expected to be tabled in the Lok Sabha – The Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill and The Railways (Amendment) Bill.The Jammu and Kashmir Police today claimed to have killed a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant involved in the killing of seven employees of a construction firm that was building the Z-Morh tunnel near Sonamarg. The name of Junaid Ramzan Bhat, a Lashkar militant from south Kashmir's Kulgam, surfaced after he was identified by the police as one of the two attackers from the CCTV footage of the incident. Police said Bhat was killed during a gunfight in Dachigam forests on the city outskirts.Four workers were killed in a boiler blast at an industrial unit in Ank-leshwar GIDC in the Bha-ruch district of Gujarat today. Bharuch district administration confirmed that the blast occurred at the premises of Detox India Private Limited, which is in the business of industrial waste treatment and disposal. Following the blast, teams from the fire department, industrial safety and health departments, and the police reached the spot and have begun a primary probe into the incident.India experienced its second warmest November in 123 years and this warming trend has continued since the post-monsoon season in October, and could contribute to making 2024 the warmest year ever on record, globally. According to meteorologists, there were two main reasons for the above normal temperatures in India, first the lack of strong western disturbances affecting the plains of northwest India, and second lack of cyclonic disturbances or low pressure systems — both of which kept the rainfall activity at its lowest across the country.The Trinamool Congress asked the Centre today to appeal to the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to Bangladesh where according to the party “the minorities and the Hindus are being tortured and being killed”. The party's appeal in the Lok Sabha came a day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made a similar request in the state Assembly. Speaking during the Zero Hour, party MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay sought a statement in the House by Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar about the latest situation in Bangladesh. He added that the West Bengal government had adopted a resolution that it would work together with the Centre on the matter and stand by its decisions.This was the Catch Up on 3 Things by The Indian Express.
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India and China have reached a deal to de-escalate tensions along their bitterly disputed border in the Himalayas, potentially ending a contentious four-year stand-off between the two Asian powers. Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Monday that the two countries agreed to conduct joint military patrols along the border known as the Line of Actual Control. No details of the pact have been released and the Chinese government has yet to comment on the arrangement. If the two countries have, in fact, agreed to pull back their forces and disengage, it would have wide-ranging geopolitical consequences throughout Asia. Sushant Singh, a lecturer in South Asian studies at Yale University and contributing editor of The Caravan magazine in New Delhi, joined Eric & Cobus to discuss the ramifications of de-escalation along the Sino-Indian border. JOIN THE DISCUSSION: X: @ChinaGSProject | @eric_olander | @stadenesque Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProject YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ChinaGlobalSouth FOLLOW CAP IN FRENCH AND ARABIC: Français: www.projetafriquechine.com | @AfrikChine Arabic: عربي: www.alsin-alsharqalawsat.com | @SinSharqAwsat JOIN US ON PATREON! Become a CGSP Patreon member and get all sorts of cool stuff, including our Week in Review report, an invitation to join monthly Zoom calls with Eric & Cobus, and even an awesome new CGSP Podcast mug! www.patreon.com/chinaglobalsouth
India and China have reached a deal to de-escalate tensions along their bitterly disputed border in the Himalayas, potentially ending a contentious four-year stand-off between the two Asian powers. Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Monday that the two countries agreed to conduct joint military patrols along the border known as the Line of Actual Control. No details of the pact have been released and the Chinese government has yet to comment on the arrangement. If the two countries have, in fact, agreed to pull back their forces and disengage, it would have wide-ranging geopolitical consequences throughout Asia. Sushant Singh, a lecturer in South Asian studies at Yale University and contributing editor of The Caravan magazine in New Delhi, joined Eric & Cobus to discuss the ramifications of de-escalation along the Sino-Indian border. JOIN THE DISCUSSION: X: @ChinaGSProject | @eric_olander | @stadenesque Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProject YouTube: www.youtube.com/@ChinaGlobalSouth FOLLOW CAP IN FRENCH AND ARABIC: Français: www.projetafriquechine.com | @AfrikChine Arabic: عربي: www.alsin-alsharqalawsat.com | @SinSharqAwsat JOIN US ON PATREON! Become a CGSP Patreon member and get all sorts of cool stuff, including our Week in Review report, an invitation to join monthly Zoom calls with Eric & Cobus, and even an awesome new CGSP Podcast mug! www.patreon.com/chinaglobalsouth
This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.Today is the 1st of October and here are the headlines.The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls will wrap up today as voting is underway for the final 40 seats in the third and largest phase of the elections. A voter turnout of 44.08 per cent was recorded as of 1 pm. In contrast to the first two phases, the bulk of the seats in the third one totalling to 24 seats are in the Jammu division, while 16 are in Kashmir. According to the Election Commission, the second phase of the J&K polls on 25th of September recorded a voter turnout of 57.31 per cent and 61.38 per cent in the first phase. Results will be announced on 8th of October. Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi at a curtain raiser event today said that there had been “positive signalling” at the diplomatic level from both India and China regarding the ongoing military standoff between the two countries along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, and that military commanders from both sides would now sit together to see how this can be translated on the ground. General Dwivedi said that while the positive signalling came from the diplomatic sides, “when it comes to execution on the ground, it is dependent on the military commanders on both sides to take those decisions.”The Supreme Court today stated that the guidelines it will lay down for demolitions of unauthorised constructions will be applicable pan-India and for all religions. The bench said it will make it clear that merely because a person is an accused or even a convict, it can't be a ground for demolition of property. The court further added that it was not encouraging encroachments and cluttering of footpaths. The Supreme Court was hearing a batch of petitions which have alleged that properties, including of those accused of crime, were being demolished.A school bus in Thailand with about 44 students and teachers on board caught fire on the outskirts of Bangkok. News agency AP quoting government officials said, as many as 25 are feared dead in the accident. Transport Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit said about 16 students and three teachers were sent to a hospital for treatment and further added that the cause of the incident was being investigated. Amid rising tensions across West Asia, the Israeli military today sounded air raid sirens in central Israel, including Tel Aviv, following its “limited” and “targeted” ground raids against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group in southern Lebanon. Earlier in the day, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began the targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against the group and the Israeli forces said that these targets are located in villages close to the border, and “pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel.”This was the Catch Up on 3 Things by The Indian Express.
This is the Catchup on 3 Things by The Indian Express and I'm Ichha Sharma.Today is the 27th of September and here are this week's headlines.India and China are learnt to have made “significant progress” in narrowing their gap on pending issues along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh. The Indian Express has learnt, this includes exploring the contors of a possible solution that factors in their respective pre-April 2020 positions while agreeing to address existing issues in Arunachal Pradesh. Sources said this might imply that Indian troops, whose access to certain patrolling points along the LAC were blocked either by Chinese troops or due to the implementation of the buffer zones created in the backdrop of disengagement at specific friction points, might be close to accessing them again.The Indian Express obtained exclusive details about Mumbai's Ring Road masterplan, developed by MMRDA, which outlines an extensive network of road connectivity across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. This ambitious plan stretches from the Vadodara border in Gujarat to Alibaug in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, encompassing Navi Mumbai and Thane. The intricate network includes roads, flyovers, reclaimed coastal routes, bridges, and underwater tunnels, all designed to alleviate the city's notorious traffic bottlenecks by 2029. Once completed, this infrastructure project is expected to significantly transform the island city and its surrounding areas. It is expected to not only reduce congestion but also enhance public transport accessibility, making travel more convenient for residents and commuters alike.The CBI is probing the sale and disposal of biomedical waste as part of its alleged corruption case at Kolkata's R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, the epicentre of a political firestorm after last month's rape and murder of a medical intern there. An investigation by The Indian Express has revealed, a little-known company, SNG Envirosolutions, could hold one key to this. The company grew to handle up to 70% of waste from government hospitals across the state, including at RG Kar, without owning a single waste treatment plant, in violation of its contract's terms.Meanwhile, the Film Federation of India, the apex body responsible for selecting India's official entry for the Best Foreign Film Category at the 97th Academy Awards, announced Laapataa Ladies as India's official entry to the Academy Awards at an event in Chennai on Monday. Directed by Kiran Rao and produced by Aamir Khan, Laapataa Ladies chronicles the story of two young newlywed brides, who get exchanged during a train ride to their husband's homes. Twelve Hindi films, 6 Tamil and 4 Malayalam films were among the 29 films whying for the honour of being India's official entry for 97th Oscar ceremony.On the global front, Israel on Thursday rejected calls for a three-week ceasefire from across the global community, defying its biggest ally, the United States. In US to address the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters that the military will keep hitting Hezbollah with “full force” and stated, quote, “We will not stop until we achieve all our goals, first and foremost returning the residents of the north safely to their homes.” Israel has continued its airstrikes in Lebanon, amid fears of an all-out regional war breaking out. This was the Catch Up on 3 Things by The Indian Express.
As the world reacts to deadly communication-device explosions in Lebanon, we're joined by Nicholas Noe to give us the view from Beirut. Also: China and India hint at thawing ties as they begin to resolve their issues along the Line of Actual Control, the pair's de facto border. Plus: we unpack changing attitudes to migration in Europe following Keir Starmer's visit to Rome.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It's the 28th of March and here are today's headlines.Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court has reserved its order in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Enforcement Directorate custodial remand case. Earlier today, the court heard the ED plea seeking a 7-day extension on the AAP national convener's custody in the now-scrapped liquor policy case. Kejriwal went over statements of witnesses in the case and said, quote, "ED has two motives - to create a smokescreen to crush AAP and two, to create an extortion racket. Raghav Reddy contributed 55 crores to BJP. He bought his bail. Money trail is clearly established." Unquote.A group of lawyers have written to Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud “expressing…deepest concern” about the actions of a “vested interest group”. They alleged that it “is trying to pressure the judiciary, influence judicial process and defame…courts on the basis of frivolous logic and stale political agendas”. The signatories, numbering around 600, claimed that “this heated interest group operates in various ways. They create false narratives of a supposed ‘better past' and ‘golden period' of the courts. The letter said, quote "These are nothing but intentional statements, made to sway court decisions and to embarrass the courts for certain political gains”. Unquote.Hours after India summoned a senior US diplomat on Wednesday and objected to the State Department's remarks on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arrest, the US reiterated that it “follows these actions closely” and “encourages fair, transparent, timely legal processes”. US State Department spokesperson, Matthew Miller also said that they are aware of the Congress party's allegations that tax authorities have frozen some of their bank accounts in a manner that will make it challenging to effectively campaign in the upcoming elections.India and China today agreed to continue talks through diplomatic and military channels to resolve border issues along the Line of Actual Control. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said that talks were undertaken under the framework of Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs in Beijing. This was the 29th meeting of the WMCC. At a time when India has reiterated its two-state solution for the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that although the Oct 7 attack was definitely an act of terrorism, there remains the “underlying issue of the rights of the Palestinians and the fact that they have been denied their homeland.” He was responding to a question at an interaction with the Indian community in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.
This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It's the 21st of February and here are the headlines.As the Dilli Chalo protest resumed today, several farmers were injured as the Haryana Police dropped tear gas shells at the Shambhu and Khanauri border. Meanwhile, the telephonic talks between the farmer leaders and Union government officials concluded and leaders Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Sarvan Singh Pandher are insisting on a statement on MSP law by the Prime Minister or the Home Minister.Indian Space Research Organisation today said that it completed the human rating of its CE20 cryogenic engine that will power the cryogenic stage of the human-rated LVM3 launch vehicle to be used in crewed Gaganyaan missions. The seventh and final round of ground qualification tests were completed earlier this month. The ambitious Gaganyaan mission will demonstrate ISRO's human spaceflight capability by launching a crew of one or more members to an orbit of 400 kilometres in space on a three-day mission.India and China held the 21st round military talks earlier this week, emphasising that a complete disengagement in the remaining areas along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh is the essential basis for restoring normalcy along the borders. In a statement released today, the Ministry of External Affairs said that the two sides shared their perspectives on disengaging from the remaining friction points along the LAC.Actor-politician Kamal Haasan today said discussions were on for his party, Makkal Needhi Maiam's political alliance and stressed it would support any bloc that would “selflessly” think about the nation and desist from being part of “feudal politics.” His remark came in the backdrop of speculations that Haasan's party was involved in alliance talks with Chief Minister M K Stalin-led DMK for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.Ameen Sayani, the iconic radio presenter of the popular show ''Binaca Geet Mala”, died on Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 91. As a voiceover artist, he holds a record for hosting and compering over 54,000 radio programs. Sayani also holds a record in the Limca Book of Records for his contributions to approximately 19,000 jingles as a voiceover artist. His show, Binaca Geetmala, which began as a 30-minute programme on Radio Ceylon turned into a rage and was aired from 1952 to 1994.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.
First, Indian Express' Apurva Vishwanath joins us to talk about the Electoral Bond scheme and the Supreme Court's verdict about the same.Second, we talk to Indian Express' Amrita Nayak Datta about villages around the Line of Actual Control i.e. the India China border being occupied by Chinese nationals. (12:27)Lastly, we talk about TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty's resignation. (19:23)Hosted by Niharika NandaWritten and Produced by Niharika Nanda, Shashank Bhargava and Rahel PhiliposeEdited and Mixed by Suresh Pawar
This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.It's the 31st of January and here are the headlines.While addressing the Parliament Budget Session today, President Droupadi Murmu said that the “dignity of every citizen is paramount” and the government is emphasising on “human-centric development.” She added that the government is working on a “big vision — it has a roadmap for the next 25 years”. In an address before the commencement of the Budget Session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Opposition MPs that it was an “opportunity to repent and leave behind positive footprints”.In Mumbai, the country's financial capital, with the civic elections on hold for two years now, the quality of infrastructure in the neighbourhood could very well depend on which party the MLA is from. An investigation by The Indian Express has revealed that under a February 2023 policy that allows MLAs to seek funds from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for civic works, each of the 21 ruling alliance MLAs sought, and got, funds till December 2023. In stark contrast, not one of the 15 Opposition MLAs (of the Uddhav Bal Thackeray Shiv Sena and Congress) got any money even though as many as 11 of them had asked for funds. The Indian Express spoke to each of the 15 Opposition MLAs to independently verify if they applied for funds, and if the Guardian Ministers approved it. Despite repeated attempts, BMC Commissioner IS Chahal was not available for comment.The back window of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's car broke today as thousands of people thronged Labha Bridge in West Bengal's Malda to watch the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra enter the state from Bihar. While Rahul was on a bus when the incident took place, Congress leaders cried foul, calling it a security lapse. A senior Congress leader said, quote, “All policemen are busy with Mamata Banerjee's rally scheduled in Malda today. Very few police officials have been deputed for this ceremony,” Unquote.As many as 134 roads, including four national highways, were closed in Himachal Pradesh and normal life was disrupted as tribal areas and other high reaches received the first major snowfall of the year today. The local MeT department has issued an orange warning of heavy snow and rains at isolated places for today and tomorrow.Soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army recently stopped shepherds in Ladakh from grazing their cattle near the Line of Actual Control. The incident – which took place in Nyoma in eastern Ladakh, came to light after a purported video emerged on social media. Chushul councillor confirmed to The Indian Express that the incident took place on 2nd of January 2 and the “issue has been resolved since”.This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.
This week on Worldview, the BRICS summit in Johannesburg ended with a bang, both multilaterally, and bilaterally- between India and China. Will the Modi-Xi meeting make peace at the Line of Actual Control, and what are the big messages that the BRICS expansion, taking in 6 more members going out to the world? Read more here
In this episode of All Things Policy, Anushka Saxena discusses with Saurabh Todi and Amit Kumar recent developments in India-China relations, and what are the factors that are keeping the tensions in the relations from thawing. Some of these factors, as discussed in the episode, include friction points on the Line of Actual Control, India-China disagreements in the UNSC, and competing commitments to the Global South. Do follow IVM Podcasts on social media. We are @IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram. https://twitter.com/IVMPodcasts https://www.instagram.com/ivmpodcasts/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/ivmpodcasts/ You can check out our website at https://shows.ivmpodcasts.com/featured Follow the show across platforms: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Gaana, Amazon Music Do share the word with your folks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On the face of it- the situation at the Line of Actual Control seems frozen – but ties between India and China appear to worsen by the day. The past few weeks saw a number of headlines. Read more
It's a story you might not have heard much about in the global west. While the world has eyes on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, another international border may be on the brink of exploding into open war. For decades the nuclear-capable nations of China and India have quietly been waging a dispute high in the Himalayas -- a conflict fought with sticks, stones and hand-to-hand combat to determine a border. Problem is, neither side ever agreed to a border in the first place. Instead, they call it the "Line of Actual Control." Tune in to learn more.They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
December has been a bad month for the People's Republic's global ambitions. Miles and Wilson discuss Japan's historic defense buildup and what it means for the global balance of power, China's clashes with India along the Line of Actual Control, and how Xi Jinping's recent visit to Saudi Arabia undermined his long-term strategy with Iran.
2022 has been a year of geopolitical conflict and tensions. If we were expecting a quieter end to the year, then we were apparently mistaken. On December 9, Chinese and Indian troops had a face-off along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh. While we don't have many details yet, it appears that a few hundred soldiers were involved in a physical scuffle, and some thirty to forty, on both sides, sustained injuries. The Indian defence minister, Rajnath Singh, told the Parliament that the Chinese People's Liberation Army troops had tried to transgress the LAC in this area and were prevented from doing so. Two days after this incident, the local commanders of the Indian Army and the People's Liberation Army met to discuss the issue. Though it is unclear what, if anything, has been agreed upon to restore tranquility. The relations between India and China have been in deep freeze since May 2020, when troops of the two sides had clashed along the LAC in Ladakh. Both sides have since enhanced their military deployment and upgraded their logistical infrastructure along the LAC. Arunachal Pradesh has several points where the two sides have different perceptions of where the LAC runs, and both sides patrol up to the line they claim. Apropos the recent standoff, the Indian Ministry of Defence has noted that this has been the case in the Tawang sector since 2006. How do we understand China's posture and actions along the LAC in recent years? Is a purely bilateral framework adequate to grasp Beijing's motivations, or are larger considerations at work? And, what are India's options in dealing with Chinese activism along the LAC? In an interesting coincidence, just as the news of the recent face-off hit the headlines a couple of days ago, Carnegie India published an important paper by Mr. Vijay Gokhale titled “A Historical Evolution of China's India Policy: Lessons for India-China Relations”. While much has been written about India-China relations, most of it tends to be from the Indian perspective. We have few assessments of how Beijing has seen India and sought to deal with it. You can access Mr. Gokhale's excellent paper here, in which he traces and analyzes the arc of Chinese policy towards India from 1949 to the present day.In this special episode of Interpreting India, Vijay Gokhale joins Srinath Raghavan to discuss Mr. Gokhale's paper and the increasingly fraught relationship between India and China, in light of the recent clash between Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh. --Episode ContributorsVijay Gokhale is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie India. He retired from the Indian Foreign Service in January 2020 after a diplomatic career that spanned thirty-nine years. He has served as both the foreign secretary of India (from January 2018 to January 2020) and as India's ambassador to China (from January 2016 to October 2017). He has worked extensively on matters relating to the Indo-Pacific region with a special emphasis on Chinese politics and diplomacy. Mr. Gokhale is the author of three books: Tiananmen Square: The Making of a Protest, The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India, and most recently After Tiananmen: The Rise of China. Srinath Raghavan is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie India. He is also a professor of International Relations and History at Ashoka University. His primary research focus is on the contemporary and historical aspects of India's foreign and security policies. He is the author of War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of the Nehru Years (2010), and 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh (2013), and co-authored Non-Alignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the 21st Century (2013), India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939 – 45 (2016), and, most recently, The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia (2018).--
This is the fifth episode in our series on accountability in Ukraine. Following on from our initial exploration into the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) world, we delve deeper into the technical details of OSINT and its strategic effects with Tom Bullock, a Technical Intelligence Analyst. Tom is a Senior Technical Intelligence Analyst with Atreides, a software development company specializing in big data. Previously, he worked as a Senior OSINT Analyst with Janes, a global agency for open-source defence intelligence. Tom also published with Janes Defence Weekly and Janes Intelligence Review. Tom has been involved in tracking military developments in Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict. Today, he reflects on the issues that he's observed so far. Additional Resources Learn more about the employment of OSINT through the Line of Actual Control and Bellingcat.
On September 13, 2022, India and China disengaged from a fifth friction point in Eastern Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Both sides have now established five buffer zones since tensions began in April 2020, but the LAC crisis is far from over. In this episode, Manoj Joshi, Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Reservation Foundation and author of “Understanding the India China Border”, explains where things stand on the border, where both countries go from here as they look to rebuild shattered trust, and what may have driven China's recent actions on the LAC that have upended decades of peace.
In this edition of #GlobalPrint, ThePrint's Senior Consulting Editor Jyoti Malhotra explains why Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and External Affairs minister S Jaishankar agree on China's troop presence on the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh Watch #GlobalPrint ----------------------------------------------------- Read the full article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/global-print/in-rahul-gandhi-jaishankar-clash-on-diplomats-why-indias-national-interest-is-the-loser/968683/
In this episode, Dr Happymon Jacob speaks with Dr Jabin T. Jacob (Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Governance Studies) and discusses the significance of the Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi's unannounced visit to India. Dr Jabin Jacob argues that such visits should not occur without prior discussion of the outcomes, especially in light of outstanding issues along the Line of Actual Control. He is critical of India's lack of response to Chinese transgressions and makes a strong case for punitive actions if India is to deter Chinese salami-slicing tactics in the future. Dr Jacob explains the uniqueness of the Chinese Party-State, where regime interest prevails over national interests and what it means for India-China strategic rivalry. He describes the ideological reasons behind Chinese support for authoritarian Russia against the West and delineates the complexities of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the lessons China might learn from it.
Our guest today is the anonymous author of open source intelligence "OSINT" newsletter Line of Actual Control, where he combines open data, imagery, social media, and other sources to create innovative investigative research about topics ranging from military conflicts to zoning law violations. We should note that this interview took place shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine when OSINT techniques gained much wider exposure as the world struggles to quantify and comprehend the war. Show notes on the Geomob website, where you can also learn more about Geomob events and sign up for our monthly newsletter.
TranscriptSushant: Hello, and welcome to India Speak, a podcast by the Center for Policy Research. I am Sushant Singh, senior fellow at CPR. This is the second episode of our series featuring leading experts and academics, on the many facets of Sino-India relations. Some of them will be looking at the historical side of things, while others will focus on the strategic facets. Today, we will be discussing the military aspects, looking at the China's People Liberation Army, and what it means for India and to do that our guest today is Dennis Blasko, an independent analyst, and former senior Military fellow at the National Defense University in Washington DC, a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the US Army with 23 years of service as a Military Intelligence Officer, and foreign area officer specializing in China. He has served at the Defense Intelligence Agency and office of Special Operations. From 1992 to 1996 he was an Army Attache in Beijing and Hong Kong. Dennis has written numerous articles, and book chapters on the Chinese Military, including his book “The Chinese Army Today, Tradition and Transformation for the 21st century”, which remains an essential reading even after more than 15 years. Dennis, welcome to India Speak.Dennis: Thank you very much for the invitation.Sushant: Let me begin with your book Dennis where you explained who forms the PLA, what it is, what it is not, where exactly is the People's Liberation Army, how will it fight, what its doctrine is, what equipment it uses, how it trains, and how it interacts with the larger society. Essentially your book argues that the PLA is an Army of the revolution, it owes its loyalty to the party, and political guidance plays an important part in the professional character of the Chinese Military. What is the best way to explain the uniqueness of the PLA and the differences that it has vis-a- a-vis militaries from other democratic states, like the United States, United Kingdom, France, and even India for that matter?Dennis: Well, Thank you. The PLA is definitely a political Army. However, I would say for the past 30-40 years it's been less and less of a revolutionary Army, and becoming much more professional as it has modernised since its last war, last major conflict in 1979. But the main point is that it remains an arm of the Chinese Communist Party, and they have huge infrastructure and personnel to maintain that party control over the Army. However, over the past four decades of modernisation, it has become much more professional and modernised in terms of its equipment and doctrine.Sushant: So, would it be fair to say that PLA is an untested army? Having fought the last war against Vietnam in 1979, four decades ago. I ask this because many people consider this as the weakness of the PLA, especially after the recent theaterisation under the tenure of President Xi, about 7-8 years ago, pointing out that this military has not been tested at all.Dennis:Right. It hasn't been tested in actual combat, since the 1979 war, but it is important to understand the situation in Ladakh, in Aksai Chin, that for most of the 80s, there was a low-level border conflict simmering on the Sino-Vietnamese border. During that time, they rotated its troops in and out for many years from all over the country to get some experience getting shot at. What is happening today at Aksai Chin, South China Sea, East China Sea is similar to that, but without as much gunfire and actual conflict. The whole point of these deployments and activities is to pursue national objectives, given to the PLA from the Chinese Communist Party and the government. While it hasn't been a part of a major conflict, it is trying its best to remain relevant through various deployments and training. It continues to constantly improve training over the last couple decades with the type training it undertakes. It's not tested in actual conflict, but some of the things that we often think may be a problem such as the relationship of the commander to the political commissars or instructors might have been worked out as the situation seems to be in place for decades. I think they look at the political relationship between the Army to the party and between commanders and the political system, as a strength.Sushant:With this theaterisation model and this restructuring that has taken place, can training or various exercises replicate something that you may face in real combat? Because theaterisation is a very different kind of structure of the PLA. Dennis: Yeah actually, this is what we can see today in Aksai Chin. Their actual deployments look a lot different when they are training, down on the border & near the Line of Actual Control; they are deployed much differently than what we see them doing on television and in photographs. They look like they are taking this seriously – digging in, spacing themselves out and they are deployed in much wider areas than they would be normally. I think they have learnt some lessons on what happens if someone starts shooting at you. It is quite different, even the training they do, even the force on force, the red versus blue with the laser identifiers, the pop-up smoke when people get hit, we do the same thing at our national training center. It looks very similar but a lot of what I see with respect to their training away from the border training looks quite different from what I see them deployed on the ground in the very difficult terrain in the Himalayas.Sushant: Before I get to Aksai Chin I wanted to go back to something which you said about the strength and weaknesses of the PLA, you spoke about the training, the deployment, the logistics. How would you compare the modern PLA of the 21st century or of 2022 with the US military or with the Indian armed forces? I hear a lot from my former colleagues in the Indian Military about the quality of Chinese infrastructure, the pace of structure construction, the pace at which they construct roads, tracks, bridges, habitat is something to be seen. The induction of modern equipment into the PLA, their mobilisation time, the pace of their mobilisation, their logistic support. While they are not quite sure about the quality of the PLA soldiers who are roughing it out in the winters, they are also not sure about their relationship with the political commissars or the military commanders. How will you characterise these strengths and weaknesses of the PLA as they exist today?Dennis: One of the things that I try to emphasise is not to mirror image. I know, I hope I know, I may not know the United States military as well as I did when I retired a long time ago. But, it's a mistake to look at what the PLA is doing and say “well, if we do something like that therefore it must be just as good as us” and can operate on the battlefield in the same way that we would or would even want to operate in the same way as we would. The PLA is actually constructed much differently than the United States military. Even though reforms have come up with some aspects that are sort of like the United States, the more I look at the PLA and the entire Chinese Armed Forces, the more differences I see. Perhaps one of the biggest differences obviously is the funding. The PLA budget, no matter how you calculate it, is a fraction, maybe a third of the United States defense budget now. Yet the PLA, the people's armed police and the militia are many many times larger than the United States military. One of the things that they are constantly talking about is trying to conserve money and spend their money wisely. This leads to another element that is consistent even today when its reform started years ago, in that PLA modernisation is subordinate to but coordinated with economic development. One of the things they learned from the Soviet Union during the late '80s and '90s when the Soviets spent themselves to death & they didn't have an economy that could support their population. The Chinese have learnt from that, the defense spending in China does not interfere with the civilian economy. They also look to the civilian economy to support PLA modernisation and we can see that happening everywhere. So, despite everything that is going on they are trying to do it on a shoestring budget.Sushant: Dennis, if you are comparing it with the US Military and that's why you're talking about a shoestring budget but when compared to a country like India which is economically much weaker the PLA man to man spends far greater than what India spends. So, in that sense India would be in bigger trouble.Dennis: Yes and as I said, I haven't studied Indian Military so I am not this familiar with it, but from your perspective, it is much different.Sushant: Yes, because from our perspective the Chinese economy is five times Indian economy, their defense budget is four to five times our defence budget, they are spending man to man more than we are spending, they are producing many more military platforms within that country while we are not producing that much equipment within our country, we are the biggest importer of military platforms globally. The advantage that the United States Military has over PLA, perhaps the PLA has over the Indian Military to some extent.Dennis: Yes perhaps that's a good reason why we should all be happy that the Himalayas are between the two countries. Because it is such difficult terrain. But, I am not quite sure what the Indian reserves are like. If you have got a system of the reserve units.Sushant: We do have a system for reserve Units but we don't need to use reserves, reserves are not called into service. I don't remember in the last many decades reserves being called into service at any point of time. Dennis: Right. For example, here in the United States, especially over the last two wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, we used our reserves almost interchangeably with our active-duty forces. The PLA reserves are much less advanced and really would not contribute in the same way as the United States reserves. The PLA reserves may be a little more advanced in development than the Indian but they are quite different from the United States.Sushant: Dennis, getting back to what everybody is talking about, the Sino-India border crises in Aksai Chin or Ladakh in the high Himalayas. Based on your extensive reading of the Chinese Military media and studying publicly available satellite imagery. Do you now have some understanding of what happened on the disputed border starting in the summer of 2020 and more importantly, why did it happen? Firstly, what happened & why did it happen?Dennis: The why is much more difficult but first it's important to start with, the PLA army is broken down for this purposes into two major elements, one is the border defense forces which are deployed along China's border and Coastal Defense forces and I estimate there are at least a hundred thousand, maybe up to two hundred thousand border defense troops whose main job is to monitor the border, do some initial reporting, fighting delay any invasion that comes on, but the bulk of the PLA army is in the mobile operational forces- the divisions, and the brigades, the group armies that are stationed further back from the border. In the Aksai chin, I see two permanently deployed border defense regiments through that area. One regiment in the Hotanprefecture in the military sub-district and another regiment in the Nagari or Ali military sub-district prefecture, Tibet. And, an interesting anomaly is that the Nagari sector of Tibet is actually under the command of the Nanjiang Southern Xinjiangmilitary district, and there is a big dip into Tibet, it's a big bite chunk that's cut out that is under command of the Xinjiangmilitary district and Nanjiang military district. I believe that what initially happened is that the border defense forces, especially up in theGalwan valley, were involved in the June 15th conflict. It was specifically one regiment and I think one battalion that was patrolling in theGalwan valley. Honestly, I credit both sides for the discipline that they showed because both sides were carrying weapons. They got into a major scuffle, but no shots were fired, which I think says something about the discipline on both sides. At the time, there was talk that there was change over between the units, between the battalions with that regiment. But, for some reason, I don't believe, based on no evidence, but I don't believe that there was an order from Beijing or Xinjiang or Nanjiangto go out and kill people. I believe it was units, a lot of people in very close proximity that started pushing and shoving each other that got out of hand, but eventually both sides were disciplined enough to pull back and withdraw. At the same time or just before that happened, there had been exercises in the area but not in the Galwan valley, because that's a terrible place to do military exercises, but to the north up in the Dapsong plains and beyond and perhaps to the south east in Nagari, there were out of area units coming in and doing exercises. At the same time, there were some of these out of area units, and I believe they were the initial forces that came from Xinjian, Nanjiang, the Sixth (what is now combined armed division) started moving forces into the sector south of Galwan. Eventually, they went into Galwan, but they started going into Kongka (the hotspring region), then the north of Pangong Lake. I am not sure when they went south of Pangong lake but they eventually showed up at the south of the Pangong lake. Anyway, they started moving in these divisional elements from Xinjiang and over the next six months poured in what I would consider probably an entire division. Some 10,000 people spread through these four/ five sectors from Galwan to hot spring to Pangong Lake to Spanggur Lake & set up these encampments. The most important thing is and one of the things that is very useful for identification is that the encampments are generally far apart, the sectors often are 35 miles apart. So that you can't move troops back and forth between the sectors but they have come in with artillery, and artillery can often support each other from the sectors and it is by seeing the artillery that I can make an estimate of what size units are there. But after looking at the available Google Earth images from October to January and early February of last year, I estimated that a full division had been deployed there, but it was deployed to stay, not to go south or East or West. It was deployed to hold territory and as they say create facts on the ground. The important thing is that they were dug in by engineers and probably reinforced by engineers to do the digging. Perhaps, some civilian engineers came in to dig out these camps, that were all in defensive positions spread out for miles and miles in the Galwan valley. There is a regiment, I estimate that is 23 miles from the Line of Actual Control and in Pangong Lake, they have two regiments, combined arms regiment supported by firepower or artillery regiment. It's spread for almost 15 miles along the Pangong lake. So, those are defensive positions meant to hold territory.Sushant: You know Dennis couple of questions you said this is a defensive formation, you spoke about the border defense forces, so what is the significance of the border defense forces? Are they as well trained as the regular operational troops? Are they poorly trained, poorly equipped, less equipped, are they paramilitary, gendarmerie, what are they? And the second question is, were there any offensive formations there which could have gone and taken some territory on the Indian side, if the need arose.Dennis: The border defense forces are generally much lighter than the mobile operational units. They are mostly infantry, they may have some heavy machine guns, they might have some mortars. Few regiments have older armed personnel carriers. In some places, coastal defense will have artillery but generally, they are spread out in company-size positions miles and miles apart. Their mission is to patrol the border and man outposts and observe things. So they would be observing what the Indian side is doing and they might be reacting to that, and as you know you, have over the past decades established protocols for how to patrol, where to patrol, how to identify yourselves, how to carry your weapons and things like that. But these people, the border defense units, I would estimate probably throughout that entire region the two prefectures probably are two regiments amounting to some four thousand forty-five hundred troops. That would include the patrol bulks on thePangong lake. So you have got about forty-five hundred of those troops to spread out over the border of two hundred and fifty miles, a very long border, and then superimposed upon that are these outside units from Nanjiang (the division). So, what has happened is in many places, the out of area units came in, reinforced and built camps around existing border defense units. Now, could any of those forces cross the LAC, attempt an offensive to take land well into what is established Indian territory – yes certainly, they could have tried, but as you know, this is a terrible terrain for mechanised movements. It will be very difficult to make those kinds of movements. If there were any sort of opposition with modern artillery or anti-tank weapons or air support – any sort of thrust into the other side's territory would be very vulnerable.Sushant: Dennis, based on your study of the Chinese military media, could you ascertain the reasons for the PLA doing what it did? Have you been able to see any analysis of that, any reasoning is given out anywhere?Dennis: I have not seen exactly why they have done that, and that would be a much higher-level party decision. You are familiar with the concept of the chicken and egg, which came first. The Indian side says the Chinese have been building their infrastructure along the border. The Chinese side says the Indians have been building their infrastructure along the border. So, who did it first? Both sides are improving their infrastructure and we are seeing now with this bridge that's been built across the Pangong lake.Sushant: Based on your assessment so what are the number of PLA troops including the border guarding forces, and the combined operational division. What is the approximate number of troops you would assess based on the encampments etc that the PLA has deployed in Aksai chin?Dennis:I look back to maybe 20 miles, 25 miles from the LAC back into Chinese territory and I see five sectors that I have mentioned before. I don't see the very the northern sectors of Depsang and I don't see the very southern sector of Demchok, but the five sectors that I see which is about 200 miles and then 20 -25 miles back when you include border defense, the division which I would estimate to be about ten thousand personnel, and then there are certainly non-divisional forces, engineers coming in. I have seen further back in Rutog, what I think is a long-range multiple rocket launcher battalion. I think there is artillery and there are probably some special operation forces. There are definitely some communications forces. There are a lot of transportation and support forces both from the region and then from the army and from the joint logistic support force. So, I would say there are probably about twenty thousand in total when you include the border defense, the division combined arms division, and the supporting forces.Sushant: But, Denis based on the military formations, areas, districts which are involved in the PLA side of the crisis. Do we have any knowledge of the commanders and their personalities who are involved. And has the recent restructuring made a difference to the way these things operate now and also how these commanders now operate?Dennis: At the operational level, you know the regimental commanders, the division commanders, we may know the names but, I don't know if we may know much about them. The Major General who is in charge of the Nanjiang military districts is the one who meets with your... Sushant: Core commander...Dennis: Yes. I would imagine you know him very well and I don't follow personalities that close. But, I believe that if I remember correctly he has been there for some sometime. Therefore, he has got a lot of experience in Xinjiang. There has been a lot of talk about the western theater, change of commands, having four commanders in a couple of years, and all that kind of stuff. The first change of command, a new guy came in without much experience in the region and he replaced somebody who had been in the region for a long time, and I think medical problems led to him leaving which brought in a third person who also didn't stay but a couple of months, and now finally, a fourth commander who has come in, who also has extensive experience. One of the problems with PLA changes of commands is that you never really know if the medical reasons are the real reasons for their departure, and there could be other reasons too. Right now, I believe that they do have in the chain of command people with extensive experience operating in Xinjiang because it is an anomaly, it's much different. Xinjiang forces did not undergo some kind of reforms that the vast majority of the rest of the PLA undertook. In Xinjiang, there are no group armies. The rest of the PLA is pretty much group armies, except for the Tibet Military district. So, there has been change and modernisation in Xinjiang but they still have both the border defense chain of command and the chain of command for the divisions and other supporting units, as they did before reform. I believe they have done that because of the unique situation, the huge expanses of land, and the harsh terrain throughout that area.Sushant: Dennis, just stepping back a bit, what is the political direction to the PLA now, particularly on Taiwan and on the South China Sea. I ask this because there is definitely a connection between what the PLA does on Taiwan or what the political direction in Taiwan is to what PLA does vis-a-vis India, because you know, if nothing happens to Taiwan then doing something to India allows the communist party to showcase itself as doing something for PLA. So, do we know something about the political direction the PLA has now on Taiwan and on the South China Sea?Dennis: I would say what we have seen in Aksai Chin is the army equivalent of what we have seen in the South China Sea, and opposite Taiwan. In the South China Sea, we primarily see a naval operation, a single service naval operation with the building of structures on the reefs and all that. Then against Taiwan, we see a more joint operation, both naval and airforce, heavy air force presence with all the flights mostly south of the island. But, both of these or all three of these different sectors or fronts as you might want to call them are being undertaken at the direction of the central military commission and the Chinese communist party. The PLA, in that regard is obeying the orders of the party, in their mind with Taiwan, it is to prevent further steps towards independence by Taiwan – in other words deterrence of Taiwan's independence. In the South China Sea, in many ways, it's similar to what's going on in Aksai chin. It's establishing realities on the surface and establishing military patrols in that region to reinforce their claims to the disputed areas. I don't see any of them building up an offensive deployment that would be necessary for a real war. For example, if you were to look at what's going on opposite Ukraine, you see concentrations of forces that are much different than what you see the PLA doing.Sushant: Dennis, one final question and then let me put you on the spot. Are there any signs of China and India going to war? Based on whatever you see, whatever you hear, whatever you analyse, or are we going to see something on the India border,as you just said earlier, what we saw of China from the Vietnam border, but with lesser kinetics may be less artillery shelling and fewer casualties than what we saw in 1979 and 1987 on the Vietnam border. My final question to you is, do you see a war or not?Dennis: No, I don't see a decision to go to war. The problem is the more all sides increase the tension, hype their soldiers up, and then send them out to do small unit patrols, I see the potential for escalation – something like what happened in June of 2020, where perhaps a platoon or a complete battalion size element clashes with the other side. There may not be immediate command and control withhigher headquarters, and things could spiral out of control and that's what worries me in all of these places – that a miscalculation, a mistake or misidentification could cause something much bigger. But if that does not happen, what I do see is the PLA digging in to stay in these encampments, in the sectors that I have described – they look like they are to stay for quite some time. Now, it's not infrastructure, it's not as expensive doing all of that as it is building facilities. So the good thing that I see between the Indian and Chinese sides is that at least they are having meetings. They may not amount to much, but at least you are talking. Talking is better than not talking. And, it is possible, the Generals who meet aren't going to make these decisions but if they are told by Delhi or Beijing to come to some sort of agreement, there could be a political way out of this. In all of these, both sides are going to have to make some concessions in some ways. I do see the Chinese, if there is no political resolution through negotiations, they are prepared to stay for a long time and rotate units in. To the best of my knowledge, I have only seen units coming from Xinjiangbut if they stay there for years on end, they may bring units from other places if it goes on that long. This to me is a very important test, not so much tactically about how they can fight, but about how they can actually live in such austere conditions, and support them with such large deployments of forces for such extended periods of time. This is a very difficult logistics operation to keep that many people in the field, healthy and prepared to fight if necessary.Sushant: Dennis, that's something we look forward to about how the PLA behaves. I am happy to end on a very hopeful note, that things would probably look up and there would be a political solution to this crisis between two of Asia's biggest countries, two of Asia's biggest powers. Thank you so much Dennis for coming onto the podcast. Thank you once again.Thank You for Listening. For more information on our work, follow us on Twitter and log on to our website at https://cprindia.org/
The following is a computer-generated transcription, some grammar and spelling errors may be inherentHey guys, Anthony Bandiero Here, attorney, Senior Legal instructor for blue to gold law enforcement training, bringing the roadside chat from a cop. In Utah, the cop asked me something that's actually a base in statutory law, but has a search and seizure component. The officer says, Can you arrest someone for DUI? If you did not see them in actual physical control of the vehicle? Alright.So the answer is it depends on your state law, because DUI statutes come in two flavors, what are both? What are they have both. One is that the statute requires that the person be driving at the time of contact, or, and or they be in actual physical control, which is where you can prove circumstantially that they were driving the vehicle previously. Now, most states in my experience, allow both right? You the person's driving, right? Which obviously, implies that they're an actual physical 12 That time, or you can also prove circumstantially that they were driving the vehicle in the past that is most common with accidents, right? You show up on an accident scene, and the person's not in the vehicle? How do you prove that they drove? They're intoxicated. That's circumstantial evidence. You can also have direct evidence by them making admissions and so forth, but usually gonna have to have something more than just the admission that they drove the vehicle. So let me give you the the hypo or the hypothetical here, right. So the officer gets a report of an erratic driver. Apparently, many phone many calls on this. He was also reported be all over the roadway. He had traffic cones, he ran people off the roadway, we're looking at a possible DUI. They have the plate, they run it, and they find the vehicle is parked at the residence unoccupied. 10 minutes later, they knock on the door. The driver says, Yeah, I came from that area, right. He makes admissions that he was in the area of where the traffic cones and people ran up the road. But he tells the cops that he drank alcohol since then at home. Now the officer saying in his training experience, there's no way he could have got that intoxicated within the 10 minutes, meaning most people don't drink that heavily within the last 10 minutes, and so forth. Now, the question ultimate question again is, can we arrest this person? ...
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India Rising: Strategic Affairs Conversations with Mohal and Kishor @mohaljoshi @veggiediplomat A year ago during the summer of 2020 when the world in general and India specifically was reeling under the full brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic, the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) came up to the Line of Actual Control to occupy strategic areas across the perceived LAC (Line of Actual Control) just as the snow was melting during the summer months. It's been a year now and instead of the situation easing off, we have heard of soldiers from both sides digging their heels. The fact that the issue isn't grabbing the headlines doesn't mean that the issue has gone away. Cover tune: Hand In Hand by Nicolai Heidlas | https://www.nicolai-heidlas.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ #LineOfActualControl #IndiaChinaBorder #PeoplesLiberationArmy #IndianArmy #WangYi #SJaishankar #NarendraModi #XiJinping #Ladakh #Sikkim #GenBipinRawat
One year ago, Chinese and Indian forces traded blows in the remote Galwan Valley—resulting in the first deaths along the Line of Actual Control since 1975. Months later, India would be hit by the coronavirus, whose precise origin story in China we still do not fully understand. Indian public opinion towards China has soured and Beijing has nervously watched India double-down on its engagement with the so-called “Quad.”It's against this backdrop that the scholar Kanti Bajpai has released a timely new book, India Versus China: Why They Are Not Friends. Kanti is the Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation and Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and he joins Milan on the podcast this week.The two discuss the untold pre-history of the Chinese-Indian rivalry, the sources of the trust deficit between the two countries, and China's surprising soft power advantage. Plus, the two discuss possible scenarios for China-India conflict and India's pressing domestic reforms agenda. Grand Tamasha, “Darshana Baruah on the Indian Ocean Imperative,” April 6, 2021Grand Tamasha, “Ananth Krishnan on What China's Rise Means for India,” October 20, 2020Grand Tamasha, “Ashley J. Tellis on India's China Conundrum,” September 22, 2020“Off the Cuff with Kanti Bajpai,” ThePrintKanti Bajpai, “Why does China consistently beat India on soft power?” Indian Express, June 23, 2021
Photo: No known restrictions on publication.CBS Eye on the World with John BatchelorCBS Audio Network@BatchelorshowOne year since the PRC attacked at the Line of Actual Control & What is to be done? Nitin Gokhale @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The HillNitin Gokhale, strategic affairs analyst and media entrepreneur based in Delhi, on the one-year anniversary of the Galwan clash with China. https://eurasiantimes.com/galwan-anniversary-china-says-india-likely-to-ignite-border-conflict-in-ladakh-expert-says-no-disengagement/
The 11th round India-China Corps Commander Level Meeting was held at Chushul-Moldo border meeting point April 9. The two sides had a detailed exchange of views for the resolution of the remaining issues related to disengagement along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh.
India Rising: Strategic Affairs Conversations with Mohal and Kishor @mohaljoshi @veggiediplomat Just about 2 months ago, India was sceptical about the possibility of getting involved in a two front war. Surprisingly, India has managed to achieve not just a disengagement by the Chinese People's Liberation Army at the Line of Actual Control in Pangong Tso region but also a commitment to ceasefire by the Pakistan Army along the Line of Control. How did India manage it and what are its implications? Cover tune: Hand In Hand by Nicolai Heidlas | https://www.nicolai-heidlas.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ #India #China #India-China #LineOfActualControl #Pakistan #IndiaPakistan #LineOfControl #CeasefireAtLOC #DisengagementAtLAC #PangongTso #ImranKhan #NarendraModi #XiJinping #PakistanArmy #GenMMNaravane #GenQamarBajwa
India's decision to agree to a “phased” withdrawal of troops rather than a package deal for a complete disengagement across the Line of Actual Control could become a cause for concern in the future said former National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) Chairperson and former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran in this special interview for the In Focus Podcast with The Hindu's Diplomatic Affairs Editor Suhasini Haidar. Mr Saran says that setting up a buffer zone or “no man's land” in the Finger area of North Pangong Tso lake, even if temporarily, means that the troops would not return to the “status quo ante” or positions prior to April 2020, Mr. Saran said that the future would depend on how “smoothly” the rest of the disengagement process that began last week will go. Hosted by Suhasini Haidar, National and Diplomatic Affairs Editor, The Hindu
India mustn't reduce its interest in the Quad as the challenges from China will continue despite the disengagement at the Line of Actual Control, says Lisa Curtis, who served as the Deputy Assistant to former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021), in this special interview for the In Focus Podcast with The Hindu's Diplomatic Affairs Editor Suhasini Haidar. Ms Curtis was the key American official on South Asia in the US National Security Council through much of the LAC tensions in 2020.
Lok Sabha passes The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2021. During discussion, Union Home Minister Amit Shah urged the members not to oppose the Bill, just for the sake of politics. Congress leader Salman Khurshid said that former party chief Rahul Gandhi's comment over China disengagement at Line of Actual Control has given voice to the nation. Manoj Bajpayee-starrer ''The murder mystery Silence'' has been confirmed for an OTT release on 26th March. For more live news download Etv Bharat Download ETV Bharat on App store – https://apps.apple.com/in/app/etv-bharat/id1453416186 Play Store – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.etvbharat.android Or watch us live on – www.etvbharat.com ETV Bharat is a Division of Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. , is a comprehensive digital national news platform conceived to deliver seamless news and information services, using video-centric Mobile App and Web Portals. It is first-of-its kind offering in India in terms of diversity and depth, dedicated journalists network, reach of 24 states with services in 13 languages i.e.– Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Assamese, Odia and English. ETV Bharat is the latest initiative of the five-decade old multi-dimensional Ramoji Group. The Group's highly successful media endeavors include : Eenadu - one of the largely circulated language dailies in the country , and ETV Network with Telugu general entertainment, infotainment and news channels. With a strong lineage of the most trusted media house, ETV Bharat would draw on its strengths of decades' long experience and innovation. ETV Bharat will combine the new technologies of mobile and digital media to engage news and information seekers in a new connected world. It will be driven by well-established news gathering setup, technology specialists and other professionals.
In contrast to the outgoing Trump Administration, there are disturbing signs that the new Biden Administration in the US will revert to the unsuccessful appeasement strategy of eight years of the earlier Obama presidency. While Barack Obama pontificated, looked professorial and twiddled his thumbs, China essentially captured the South China Sea. Given a Biden administration full of rehabilitated Obama-era relics, it is likely China will feel emboldened.A signal indication of this likely U-turn was the fact that the very word “Indo-Pacific” was omitted by Biden in a major policy speech, reverting to the old and tired “Asia Pacific”. This was duly noted by the Chinese mouthpiece Global Times, and surely seen as a dog-whistle by Beijing’s America-watchers.The consequences of abetting Chinese hubris are unclear at the moment, but a forced annexation of Taiwan is certainly not off the table. Nor is a physical invasion of Japan’s Senkaku islands. And a massive Himalayan attack on India in Ladakh or anywhere along the Line of Actual Control is entirely possible. It is in this context that a series of moves by incumbent Foreign Secretary Mike Pompeo needs to be evaluated. The fact is that, despite what the usual suspects say, there have been significant wins in Trump’s foreign policy. Just three: unlike his predecessors, he didn’t go to war; Israel has signed peace agreements with several neighbors; and he pushed back, hard, against China. One could legitimately question the downsides of exiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Paris accord on climate change, or the Iran nuclear treaty; but none of them is an unequivocal error. And one could suggest that by pushing back on European allies, Trump has forced them to be more responsible. The hard line against China, however, is the most important, and it is tempting to think that there is a bipartisan consensus in the US that China has become Enemy No. 1, no ifs, thens and buts. But if you consider the Obama legacy (for example, an ex-aide at UC San Diego is practically a spokesperson for China), and how many of them are in the Biden Administration, there is reason to worry.There is, for example, with John Kerry back in the Cabinet, the possibility that, in the zeal to get back in the good graces of the global-warming mafiosi, Biden will bend over backwards to appease China. I would be saddened, but not amazed if he even accepts the 9-dash line in the South China Sea as China’s territorial waters!The 9-dash line, for which China makes highly dubious ‘historical’ claims using some old maps, in effect suggests that the entire South China Sea belongs to China. In reality, there has been no time in history when China dominated that sea, and it is a major economic lifeline, as a great deal of gloabal trade passes through it via the Straits of Malacca. The rest of the world cannot sit by and allow China to deny FON (freedom of navigation) in these open seas. Thus the importance of the single-minded steps taken by Pompeo. For instance, he recently said the following regarding the Wuhan Virus (aka COVID-19):Wuhan Virus: CCP covered it up. CCP disappeared the doctors who knew. CCP still refuses to let the world in to see what it wrought. CCP lied about where the virus came from. CCP closed travel inside China and allowed the world to suffer. America invents vaccines for the world. Every human being can see this contrast.This was followed up by a fact sheet from the US State Department that squarely puts the blame for the virus on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, brushing aside the usual obfuscation about the “wet market” and so on:(https://www.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology/). It stops just short of directly accusing the lab of having engineered the virus. The charade continues, however. A belated WHO fact-finding team found obstacles placed in its way, according to a January 5 report by CNN. The World Health Organization said that China has blocked the arrival of a team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, in a rare rebuke from the UN agency.On Taiwan, Pompeo, without necessarily violating the US’ long-standing “One China Policy”, eased restrictions on contacts between Taiwanese officials and American diplomats. That is only fair because China has a history of not abiding by the treaties or agreements it has signed, for instance the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS). When the binding court of arbitration ruled in 2015 that China had violated the Philippines’ territorial integrity in the Scarborough Shoal, China simply ignored it. The arbitrator also found no merit to China’s ‘historical’ claim, based on some doubtful old maps, to the infamous “9-dash line” as its territorial boundary (which means almost the entire South China Sea). This too was ignored. Unilateral adherence by other signatories to treaties China signed is pointless, because China does not live up to its obligations: another instance is India’s concession by Vajpayee on Tibet. A good case can be made for India to abandon its own “One China” policy, considering China has no obvious “One India” policy: the latter interferes in J&K, questions Sikkim, and of course squats on Aksai Chin. There have been several other strong indications of US displeasure with China on human rights issues and trade, including over human rights violations in Chinese-occupied Tibet (CoT). Sanctions have been slapped on exports of Chinese-occupied Xinjiang (CoX) products such as cotton, based on systematic allegations of slave labor, forced sterilization, and denial of religious freedoms to Uighurs. The latest is the strong and unusually blunt statement on January 19th — that is, the very last day of the Trump administration — from the State Department accusing China of genocide. “I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement, adding that Chinese officials were “engaged in the forced assimilation and eventual erasure of a vulnerable ethnic and religious minority group.”The January 5 crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong against Chinese usurpation of democratic rights in that territory had also attracted Pompeo’s wrath.But the strategic South China Sea probably remains the most contentious issue, as Beijing builds up its military muscle and treats the sea as its inland lake, threatening freedom of navigation. It has long been obvious that China will attempt serious mischief. I said the following as far back as 1998 in “The Danger from China” https://www.rediff.com/news/1998/jun/15rajeev.htm:China is attempting to establish the South China Sea (the name has 'China' in it and so it must be China's private lake, you see) and its potential mineral (natural gas and oil deposits) as its own private property. The activities around the Spratly Islands, Mischief Reef, the Paracel Islands etc are well-known -- China simply walked in and grabbed these, paying no attention to prior Vietnamese, Malaysian, Taiwanese and Filipino claims, for instance.Thus the welcome decision by Pompeo on January 15th to impose travel bans and trade sanctions on violators. Says the report from the AP, reprinted in The Hindu:In its waning days, the Trump administration put in place travel bans on an unspecified number of Chinese officials and their families for what it said were violations of international standards regarding the freedom of navigation in those waters.The administration also said it was adding China’s state oil company, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, to a list of companies with which U.S. citizens are banned from doing business…“The United States stands with Southeast Asian claimant states seeking to defend their sovereign rights and interests, consistent with international law,” Mr. Pompeo said.“We will continue to act until we see Beijing cease its coercive behaviour in the South China Sea.” This is as much a warning to China to behave as it is to the Biden administration to not attempt grandstanding and appeasement. After all, we are still experiencing massive human suffering and economic loss wrought by the Chinese-origin virus. There is a limit to how much forbearance the rest of the world can muster. I did go further in my 1998 predictions about Chinese misbehavior. Obviously I got the dates wrong, but my concerns may not be that far off the mark.My forecast is that, if unchecked, there will be continued Chinese military adventurism in Asia. I predict that by 2003, the Chinese will cross the Ussuri River and attack Russian Siberia, citing flimsy historical claims; impoverished Russians will have no way of defending themselves.Further, I suspect China will either threaten to, or actually conduct, an atmospheric nuclear blast over Japan by 2005, with the clear threat of frying all their transistors -- and thus infrastructure -- with an electromagnetic pulse. America will stand by, powerless, and its nuclear umbrella for Japan will turn out to be a fiction.China will almost definitely attack Taiwan by 2002; I wonder if it makes sense for India to befriend Taiwan, and perhaps even offer it certain nuclear components, including blueprints and enriched uranium, returning China's favour vis a vis Pakistan. The chances of China attacking India over Arunachal Pradesh have perhaps receded a little after India's clear indication that it will deploy nuclear missiles. The Chinese understand belligerence -- they practice it and respect it.I am no expert at global strategy, so I am quoting people who are: Caspar Weinberger, formerly US secretary of state, projected the Taiwan scenario to happen in 1998; the Economist suggests the Japan scenario. Well, okay, I made up the Siberia scenario myself: it stands to reason.As a confirmed China-hawk, I predicted doom:A couple of years ago, I read a review of a hugely successful Taiwanese book called Yellow Peril, in which a series of altercations between Taiwan and China end up in a few nuclear bombs being exchanged. I think the PRC attacks Taiwan, which retaliates with an atom bomb; Russian and American nukes enter the picture somehow. The final scene is yet another sorry exodus of Chinese -- by boat towards Australia, and by land over the Silk Road towards Central Asia. In the end, that is the issue, isn't it -- lebensraum?I really hope that Chinese belligerence does not lead to such a scenario. Even though China has come a long way economically and militarily, it shouldn’t overplay its hand. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com
China has constructed a village 4.5km “on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control” in central Arunachal Pradesh. In episode 664 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta narrates the pattern of China's incursions in this region, brings back the forgotten Longju incident of 1959 & Dalai Lama’s flight. Inevitably, he also looks briefly at the Test series win in Australia.
Strategic affairs analyst, journalist, and former Indian Army officer Sushant Singh talks to host Pavan Srinath about the India-China conflict in Ladakh, eight months in. Sushant shares what it takes for the Indian Army to deploy between 50 and 60,000 troops on the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh and maintaining a winter deployment. He also discusses the challenges faced by soldiers living through the winter in altitudes going up to 18,000 feet, with blistering winds and little to no prior infrastructure. The conversation also includes an eye on the future, on how the India-China conflict could pan out in 2021 and what kind of strategic implications it could have for India. Sushant Singh is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Previously, he was the Deputy Editor of The Indian Express, reporting on strategic affairs, national security and international affairs. He won the Ramnath Goenka Prize for Excellence in Journalism for 2017 and 2018. Prior to becoming a journalist, he served in the Indian Army for two decades, including multiple stints in Jammu and Kashmir. He is the author of Mission Overseas: Daring Operations by the Indian Military (Juggernaut Books, 2017). BIC Talks is brought to you by the Bangalore International Centre. Visit the BIC website for show notes, links and more information about the guests.
India has kicked off a flurry of tests of a supersonic cruise missile against a background of border tensions with China. The military is hard at work to add speed, range and accuracy to the country’s most advanced projectile, developed jointly with trusted ally Russia. The latest test in December involved a naval variant of the BrahMos cruise missile, another sign of India’s growing reach in one of the world’s busiest maritime corridors in the Indian Ocean. “We need a weapon of this capability to send a message – ‘Do not mess with us in the Indian Ocean’,” Anil Jai Singh, vice president of the Indian Maritime Foundation, told state TV. Military engineers hope to tune up BrahMos to be more potent than ever before, said Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, a former director of India’s missile-producing enterprise, Bharat Dynamics Ltd. “We have the capability of the submarine version also. It has not been fully tested but technology demonstration has been done,” Srivastastava told national RSTV. The missile test was the second such naval exercise since October. Army and air force both testing missiles Last month, the army and air force carried out separate trials with theBrahMos, which can fly at nearly three times the speed of sound. “It is a show of strength to the Chinese, we will hit where it hurts,” said defense analyst S.K. Chatterji, a retired army brigadier. Since July, India has tested other projectiles as well, including a hypersonic weapon on 7 September. Once developed, it will fly at twice the speed of BrahMos, which is swifter and heavier than the American Tomahawk cruise missile. India, China border stand-off India has deployed BrahMos missile batteries on its flashpoint borders with China after the standoff led to a savage brawl last June, leaving 20 Indian troops bludgeoned to death. China is believed to have suffered casualtiesalso, but has not given details. India accuses China of cranking up tensions along their contested borders known as the Line of Actual Control or LAC. “The Chinese have literally brought tens of thousands of soldiers in full military preparation mode right up to the LAC,” Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said a week after the latest BrahMos test. The two Asian giants fought a brief but a bloody war in 1962 over a border dispute which remains unresolved, despite several rounds of talks. Birth of a missile In 1999, India and Russia launched BrahMos Aerospace, a 206-million-euro collaboration to develop and mass produce the world’s only supersonic cruise missile. India tested BrahMos for the first time in 2001. The name is a portmanteau of India’s Brahmaputra River and the Moskva (or Moscow River) which flows through western Russia. Russia until recently accounted for nearly 70 percent of India’s arms imports and remains its most trusted frontline ally. William Selvamurthy, a former military scientist, said India should try and marry BrahMos with missile technologies of other “friendly countries” to upgrade the arsenal of India, the world’s largest arms buyer after Saudi Arabia. “Then we could do things faster, better and with greater capability… the synergy becomes a force-multiplier.” India has developed a range of tactical and ballistic missiles as part of a 1983 program that can transport nuclear warheads deep inside China. “They are deterrents but the BrahMos is serious business,” commented an official who declined to be named. “China knows that only too well.”
Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister of India, commented on the border tension with China, at the 18th edition of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. While issuing an assurance that the Narendra Modi administration would not allow any violation of India's territorial integrity, Singh said that talks with China on multiple levels were underway, but there was no guarantee about the outcome. He hailed the bravery of Indian soldiers at the Line of Actual Control and said that security forces had been given a free hand to drive the Chinese army back in case of aggression.
In today’s episode, we’re speaking with The Indian Express’s Kanchan Vasdev in Chandigarh about why Indian Railways has stopped all services to the entire state of Punjab. Then, we’re speaking with The Indian Express’s Deeptiman Tiwary about why India is hoping for a ‘partial disengagement’ with China along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh. (10:00) And finally, we’re speaking with The Indian Express’s Smita Nair in Goa about a massive protest in Goa that made headlines across India and the larger questions protesters are raising. (18:55)
Catch the latest news of 21/10/2020 ** Fears Australia has recorded its first case of COVID-19 reinfection. // **A Chinese soldier, who was caught by Indian forces in eastern Ladakh after he strayed across the Line of Actual Control, was handed back to China on Tuesday night.
India and China have been going toe to toe for a long time now but when do you think it all started? Do you think it started in 2020? The answer is no !! India and china have been going toe to toe since a long time a very very long time , It all started during the british era !! A british major general John Ardagh Johnson was given the task of conducting a survey in the year 1865 and he was the one who came up with the johnson line along the indian and tibatian region in the year 1897 which was later called the LAC.(The tiwatian region is now controlled by chinese government) At that time himalyan region where the border was proposed was very difficult to navigate and move , heck the area is still very hard to navigate and move through even in 2020 ! So the next natural question is that a border was created but what's the big problem in that ? Well !! The problem was that when the border was created it was officially not recognized by china , china at that time neither accepted nor rejected to the border line . And later when China got stable financially it started building roads and started making bases on the indian side of the border And because of that India and China fought the 1962 war. Which led to nearly 3,000 casualties from Indian side, and 700 from the Chinese side. But That was just the beginning of a long and painful fight between india and china, Over the years India and China went head to head on numerous occasions after 1962 ! in the year 1967 it happened in Nathu La , in 1975 there was a border stand off in Tulung La , In 2013 again there was a border standoff in Daulat Beg sector , It did not stop there !! Stand off continued even in the 21st century !! In 2014 ,2015, 2017 India and China had various stand offs at the line of actual control which resulted in casualty on both sides . Then it happened again in the year 2020. But 2020 was very different. On may 21,2020 chinese soldiers entered the galwan valley and set up 3 posts after india built a road in the indian side of the border which it was frankly entitled to ! China did not take this gracefully and started building bases in the galwan valley in order to counter india And On june 15,2020 indian soldiers had enough of chinese interventions and decided to give a verbal warning to chinese soldiers but it resulted in a fist fight between indian and chinese force This again resulted in a massacre in which india sacrificed 19 soldiers and unknown numbers of chinese soldiers also suffered a blow . And since then the indian and china have had continuous standoffs ranging from galwan valley to ladakh. Both the sides have been gathering soldiers and resources along the LAC . And you might feel like India and China might be heading towards a war on the Line of Actual Control. But will the war happen? That is a billion dollar question ! To which we don't have an answer to right now ! If you ask me there is more to this story than a war between India and China over the LAC!! In reality China has a secret motive of ending India's domination of the trade route in the indian ocean which is right now controlled by india. The one question which will arise is why China would be worried about indian ocean and what China has to lose from it !! The answer to that question is that India controlled indian ocean compounds upto 80% of the global sea based trade . And china is its largest user , china actually imports 80% of its crude oil from the middle east and inorder to get that supply it has to cross the india controlled indian ocean . Not only oil , China imports a lot of goods from european countries and in order to get those goods it again has to cross the indian ocean . In theory India has the ability and capacity to chock the chineses Economy by not allowing chinese to use the sea routes in the indian ocean but for now india has chosen not to do that, And that's what china is --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/c-m-podcast/support
DSDBO road is a strategic all-weather road in Eastern Ladakh in India which is close to the Line of Actual Control with China.
By Jared Samuelson To conclude Regional Strategy Topic Week, Abhijit Singh and Collin Koh join the program to discuss the maritime balance of power between India and China to include a brief history of India-China relations, the recent conflict over the Line of Actual Control, India’s geographic advantage at sea, and the difficulty of conflict … Continue reading Sea Control 201 – The China-India Maritime Balance of Power →
By Jared Samuelson To conclude Regional Strategy Topic Week, Abhijit Singh and Collin Koh join the program to discuss the maritime balance of power between India and China to include a brief history of India-China relations, the recent conflict over the Line of Actual Control, India’s geographic advantage at sea, and the difficulty of conflict … Continue reading Sea Control 201 – The China-India Maritime Balance of Power →
For the first time in decades, shots have been fired between China and India along the Line of Actual Control. As India grapples with the twin domestic crises of COVID and the economy, it simultaneously must manage a complex diplomatic and defense engagement with the Chinese. This week on this show, Milan sits down with the Carnegie Endowment’s Ashley J. Tellis, one of the world’s foremost experts on Indian foreign policy. Milan and Ashley discuss recent fighting along India’s Chinese border, the motivations animating Chinese strategic calculations, the implications for U.S. foreign policy, and growing international concerns about the character of India’s domestic regime. Notes:Ashley J. Tellis, “Hustling in the Himalayas: The Sino-Indian Border Confrontation”Ashley J. Tellis, “India’s Path to the Big Leagues”Carnegie India webinar, “The Sino-Indian Border: Escalation & Disengagement”Sushant Singh, “Can India Transcend its Two-Front Challenge?”Seema Sirohi, “Pre-Election Bhai-Bhai”
Ministers in the Narendra Modi government are being economical with the truth in their answers to questions from Parliamentarians this monsoon session, be it on the current India-China face-off at the Line of Actual Control, Covid management, PM CARES-Fund or any other issue of public concern. Their answers are not factually incorrect but don’t give out the whole truth either, says ThePrint's Political Editor D K Singh
The India China border dispute continues to spiral out of out control as clashes between both sides turn deadly. But it's part of a much bigger strategy by China, part of what's called Comprehensive National Power, to strangle India, by gaining influence in countries surrounding India, like Nepal and Pakistan, as well as disputed border territories along the Line of Actual Control like Ladakh, the Galwan Valley, and the Arunachal Pradesh. Joining us on this China Unscripted podcast is Cleo Paskal is an Associate Fellow in both the Asia-Pacific program and the Energy, Environment and Resources department at Chatham House, as well as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific in the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
India Rising: Strategic Affairs Conversations with Mohal and Kishor @mohaljoshi @veggiediplomat The standoff between the Indian and Chinese troops at the Line of Actual Control has taken a new dimension with the Indian troops pre-empting China aggressive movements and occupying major heights around the Spanggur Gap. Who will blink first in this high stakes high-altitude prolonged standoff? Cover tune: Hand In Hand by Nicolai Heidlas | https://www.nicolai-heidlas.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
India’s problem with China along the Line of Actual Control is not going away. Despite the recent move to declare a truce, both sides are yet to de-escalate. Neither is willing to blink. Exactly why some believe the latest truce will not hold up.
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Both benchmarks Sensex and Nifty saw a good recovery last week and rallied over 1 per cent each. The focus this week, though, will squarely be on the broader market as many mid- and small-cap stocks are set to receive a boost after the Sebi tweaked rules for multi-cap mutual funds.According to the new norms, multi-cap funds must hold at least 75 per cent of their assets in equities with 25 per cent each in large, medium and smaller companies. However, in a clarification on Sunday, the regulator gave various options to the fund managers to meet the norms and set the deadline for the same as January 31, 2021. Apart from that, investors in the coming week will closely follow developments surrounding India-China border tensions, key macro data release, global indices, and upcoming US Fed meet. Both India and China last week agreed on a five-point plan to resolve the border tensions in eastern Ladakh, and now all eyes will be on the actual disengagement of forces on the Line of Actual Control. Later this week, the US Federal Reserve will hold its two-day policy meeting where it is expected to hold rates while elaborating on the already-announced shift to inflation targeting. The Bank of Japan and the Bank of England will announce their respective policy decisions on Thursday. Back home, more than 1,000 companies, mostly smallcaps, will announce their results in the first two days of this week. Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, Future Retail, HUDCO, PVR,and Anant Raj, are among the 446 companies to announce quarterly earnings today. BHEL's consolidated net loss widened to Rs 893.14 crore for the quarter ended June as coronavirus-induced lockdown had an adverse impact on its operations. Meanwhile, IRCTC reported a net loss of Rs 24.60 crore in the quarter under review. The stocks of both these companies will react to their respective results today. Market participants will also react to IIP numbers, released over the weekend, followed by CPI and WPI inflation data which are scheduled to be released today. Industrial production shrank by 10.4 percent in July, mainly due to lower output of manufacturing, mining and power generation sectors, official data showed on Friday. This week will also see the listing of Happiest Minds Technologies at the bourses, although there is no clarity on dates yet. The final issue price has been fixed at Rs 166 per share, the upper end of price band. On the Covid-19 front, India's tally of cases sprinted past 48.4 lakh, while the death toll climbed to 79,754, according to Worldometer. Meanwhile, British clinical trials for the AstraZeneca and Oxford University coronavirus vaccine have resumed after green light from safety watchdogs. The late-stage trials of the experimental vaccine, one of the most advanced in development, were suspended this week after an illness in a study subject in Britain. The development sent Asian shares higher on Monday, with MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gaining 0.5 per cent. Both Australian shares and Japana's Nikkei were up 0.5 per cent. The Indian markets are also set to open higher, on the back of favourable cues from Asian indices.The SGX Nifty was last trading at around 11,490 levels, up 30 points.
Our episode today looks at the joint statement issued by the Foriegn Ministers of India and China after a two-and-a-half-hour-long meeting on September 10 in Moscow that went into the night, and which now contains a five-point course of action to de-escalate the four-month-long stand-off at the Line of Actual Control. In previous episodes, we have discussed the stand-off in detail at various junctures and why, for months, despite meetings at various levels, the de-escalation process was really making very little headway. What's more, there only seemed to be more flare-ups. Will this new five-point course of action make any difference at all? Where do things stand now and are they headed? Guest: Ananth Krishnan, former Beijing Correspondent; Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Affairs Editor Find the In Focus podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Search for In Focus by The Hindu. Write to us with comments and feedback at socmed4@thehindu.co.in
This episode is hosted by Meghnad S who brings you stories from the Line of Control, the Line of Actual Control, Mumbai, and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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The Indian markets are set to open higher today on the back of firm cues from Asian indices. At 7:30 AM, the SGX Nifty was trading 50 points up at 11,430 levels. This was after Asian shares regained some footing on Tuesday with Australia's ASX200 rising 1 per cent while Japan's Nikkei and Hang Seng index both were up half a per cent each. However, geo-political concerns might put a lid on the indices' gain. According to reports, an incident of firing took place on the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh sector where troops of India and China have been engaged in a stand-off for over three months. Investors will track the developments on this front, and any further escalation might pressure the indices. Investors will also react to the Kamath Committee's recommendations for Covid-19-related debt restructuring. The committee has recommended financial ratios for 26 sectors which could be factored in by lending institutions while finalising a resolution plan for a borrower. Apart from these, investors will continue to track global cues, Covid-19 related newsflow and stock-specific developments, including corporate results. A surge of over 75,000 cases on Monday took India's tally of Covid-19 cases to 42.7 lakh with 72,816 deaths. On the results front, a total of 38 companies including SML Isuzu and Future Consumer are set to announce their June quarter earnings today. Apart from these, aviation stocks might trade actively today after rating agency Icra said air passenger traffic in the country logged a 26 per cent month-on-month growth at 2.6 million passengers in August, with airlines scaling up capacity by 27 per cent over July. Meanwhile, the government is planning to sell 15 per cent stake in defence company Bharat Dynamics through an offer for sale today and tomorrow. The centre which owns 87.75 per cent stake in the company is looking to offload 2.71 crore shares at floor price of Rs 330 per share. And now a quick look at other top news ITC will examine an “alternative structure” for its hotels business, Chairman Sanjiv Puri has said. Puri said the firm is focusing on an asset-right strategy and will look at some alternative structuring vehicles for value creation. According to a Business Standard report, Reliance Industries has started preliminary talks with Facebook and private equity fund KKR to make an investment in its retail business too. The Rs 700-crore IPO of Happiest Minds Technologies was subscribed nearly 3 times on Monday, the first day of the issue. This was the highest first-day subscription for an IPO this year. Vodafone Idea on Monday said it will seek shareholders' approval to raise the borrowing limit to Rs 1 lakh crore, at the annual general meeting scheduled to be held on September 30.
In our first episode of Armchair Strategist, we kick things off with the topic du jour – India and China facing off in Ladakh. The crisis has seen the first fatalities at the Line of Actual Control in 45 years, and despite talks of disengagement, there's clearly a long way yet to go. We discuss the unprecedented confrontation with Lt Gen HS Panag, a former Northern Army Commander with years of experience in this very area, facing both China and Pakistan. Listen in for details on the situation at the border, the challenges of geography, and what India can expect in the coming months. Follow Lt Gen HS Panag (R) on Twitter: @rwac48Follow Ritika Passi on Twitter: @ritika_passiFollow Angad Singh on Twitter: @zone5aviationShare your feedback on: podcasts@orfonline.org
#scrapEIA2020 #EIA2020 Refrence : Rajmohan Report (youtube channel) Mail id : eia2020-moefcc@gov.in Sample Content : The Central Ministry has proposed a change in existing Environment Impact Assessment processes (EIA Notification, 2006) through a draft EIA Notification, 2020. The proposed notification will destroy the process of environmental protection and affecting the environment irreversibly, also making it easier for the corporates to get environmental clearances for their projects. Hence, We the people TAMILNADU, oppose the draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2020, and request you to withdraw the same. It is evident from the fact that over 30 projects, located in some of India's most biodiverse forests have been urgently cleared or taken up for clearance in online meetings during the lockdown (April 23). Site inspections are a crucial component of project evaluation and are difficult during a pandemic. Ministry appears to be relying only on digital documents uploaded by the project developers. Even more surprisingly these projects have been cleared at a time when Covid-19 has revealed dramatically how seriously the loss of forest land and biodiversity can increase zoonotic diseases. Environmentalists also have raised their voice and wrote to Environment Minister regarding how forest and environment clearances were being granted across India during the lockdown. On that note, shockingly, the Ministry has put out a draft notification for public comments amidst global economic and public health emergency when there is restricted public movement.The new amendment poses a serious threat to the environment and there are some areas of concern like granting post-facto clearances to Industries and leaving aside them with Fine alone in case of any violations. For several projects, the whole process of EIA is made simpler and fails to meet the standards of basic environmental protections. However, in an order on April 1, the Supreme Court held that "ex post facto environmental clearances" are contrary to law. It said: "Environment law cannot countenance the notion of an ex post facto clearance. This would be contrary to both the precautionary principle as well as the need for sustainable development". A public hearing has been exempted to many industries (those producing acids, paints, fertilizers, pesticides, etc.) located in Notified Industrial Zone, this will create serious problems in areas that depend entirely on ground and river water for agricultural usage. Public consultation has also been exempted from a list of linear projects. Projects such as roads and pipelines in border areas will not require any public hearing. The 'border area' is defined as "area falling within 100 kilometers aerial distance from the Line of Actual Control with bordering countries of India." That would cover much of the Northeast, the region with the country's richest biodiversity. Exemption from public hearing goes against International environmental law and agreements.Hence, we would like to reiterate that it is our generation that will be a victim of the devastating effects of these twisted and diluted laws like the new EIA draft. In this age of high pollution levels in our cities, we need to strengthen the EIA 2006 instead of allowing amendments that will dilute the rules and encourage environmental violations.The EIA can be used to bring India out of the Covid-19 pandemic as an environmentally aware country through a green recovery that strengthens the role of environmental and social protection of all people and nature instead of justifying the present forms of harmful development. So, we request you to kindly withdraw the Draft EIA Notification – 2020, right now --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/parashoot-media/message
In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by two guests: Mohan Guruswamy, author and chairman-founder of the Centre for Policy Alternatives & The Guruswamy Center, and Tanmoy Goswami, the Correspondent’s sanity correspondent who writes on mental health. Among other things, the panel talks about the India-China border flare-up, and Sushant Singh Rajput’s death and how the media covered it.Mohan explains the location of the Line of Actual Control and how the India-China skirmish came about. “There are two LACs, the Chinese LAC and the Indian LAC; they overlap,” he says. Abhinandan asks him what triggered the Chinese action. Mohan speculates that alarm bells in China could have been raised by Amit Shah’s statement on recovering Aksai Chin, and India’s push for a WHO investigation into Covid-19. Mohan adds that the Chinese are “hyper-aggressive on all sectors of their borders”. Anand weighs in by pointing out the recent pattern of China’s militarism and aggression. The panel also discusses the difficulties in reporting on issues like this one, given the ambiguity surrounding the whole episode. Moving on to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, Abhinandan asks Tanmoy about the media coverage, and the broader norms of reporting on people who die by suicide. Tanmoy says the attitude of many senior media professionals towards suicide is informed by the fact that suicide was criminalised in India for a long time. “Suicide was reported by crime reporters, and so there’s a legacy of those days,” he says. Now, Tanmoy says, editors have started responding positively to contentions against sensationalist headlines or triggering illustrations. “The number of vigilant eyes in India has multiplied,” he says. He also talks about the intersectional nature of problems causing suicide, and how always equating suicide and mental illness is a “horrible myth”.The panel also discusses the lacunae in entertainment and sports reporting, nepotism and cliques in several industries, frivolous court cases, and much more. Tune in! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Dr Happymon Jacob speaks with Lt. Gen. H. S. Panag (Retd.) (Former GOC in C Northern Command and Central Commands, Indian Army. Former Member of Armed Forces Tribunal) on the ongoing India China military standoff on the Line of Actual Control. They discuss how the latest standoff is unprecedented and more worrying than the previous border skirmishes.Lt. Gen. Panag argues that the Chinese have chosen to alter the status quo at selected locations and are using a ‘Differing Perceptions’ paradigm to justify their actions. Therefore, India must challenge this narrative and call out China’s expansionist policies to set the narrative straight. Lt. Gen. Panag also argues that if India does not push back at this stage, China will only increase such behaviour in the future. The conversation ends with Gen. Panag’s thoughts on how New Delhi can counter these incursions.
In the absence of any major domestic trigger, investors will today track global cues and stock-specific developments for market direction. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones and S&P 500 rose 1.6 per cent each overnight and the Nasdaq hit a fresh all-time high on a sharp rebound in US services industry activity in June, while the trend in Asian stocks was mixed. Australian ASX200 climbed 0.16 per cent, but Japan's Nikkei dipped 0.5 per cent. Korea's Kospi was also trading 0.2 per cent lower in Tuesday's early deals. As such, the SGX Nifty, which was earlier trading with minor gains slipped into the red. Going by the SGX trends at 7:10, investors can expect the Nifty to open some 30-40 points lower at 10,730 levels. In commodities, Brent crude was last trading at $42.95 per dollar. Besides, the reports that the Chinese troops have withdrawn about 2 km into China's side of the Line of Actual Control might help ease investor concern over a possible escalation in India-China border conflict. The latest development comes a day after National Security Advisor Ajit Doval spoke on the phone to China’s State Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi. On the other hand, the trend in Covid-19 cases show no signs of slowing, which might cap the gains. With 23,932 new cases, India's total number of Covid-19 cases now stands at 7.2 lakh with 20,174 deaths, according to Worldometer. Globally, over 1.1 crore people have been diagnosed with Covid-19. On the results front, a total of 24 companies are scheduled to announce their March quarter earnings today. Shriram Transport Finance Company might trade actively today after the company okayed rights issue of equity shares to the promoters and promoter group to raise up to Rs 1,500 crore. Besides, market participants will track the Rupee's trajectory, foreign fund flow, and the oil price movement throughout the session. The Ficci-Dhruva Advisors industry survey of over 100 top corporate executives from across sectors says that business performance has shown initial signs of improvement. The results show that presently close to 30 per cent of the firms are operating at 70 per cent plus capacity utilisation. In terms of the challenges that firms foresee they will continue to face even during the unlocking phase, managing costs, weak demand and financial liquidity remain the top three items. Wireless revenues of telecom companies Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea Ltd are expected to fall during the first quarter of current fiscal on account of the nationwide lockdown, according to a report by Emkay Global. The lockdown imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic, led to delayed recharges, fewer subscriber additions, and the absence of international roaming revenues for telcos, the report said. State-owned Punjab National Bank on Monday said its board will consider a proposal to raise capital through a mix of both equity and debt on July 9.
In today’s episode we’re taking a quick look at the first signs of disengagement between the Indian and Chinese Armies along the Line of Actual Control. Then we’re speaking with The Indian Express’s Nitin Sharma about how he exposed a ‘Sri Lankan’ cricket league that was being staged in Punjab for betting. (2:01) And finally we’re looking at China making new territorial claims in its eastern border with Bhutan. (16:40) Episode on tennis match-fixing: https://bit.ly/3f5tlVb Nitin Sharma’s report on the fake T20 league: https://bit.ly/3e7VlGe Shubhajit Roy’s report on China-Bhutan dispute: https://bit.ly/2VStsvx
In today's episode, The Ministry of External Affairs has said that National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a telephonic conversation during which they agreed on disengagement of troops along the Line of Actual Control at the earliest, The Supreme Court has set aside the Delhi High Court order asking the NIA to produce judicial records on the transfer of civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha from Delhi to Mumbai in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case and Activist Joshua Wong said that the world must stand in solidarity with Hong Kongers after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the semi-autonomous city. Download the Deccan Herald app for Android devices here: https://bit.ly/2UgttIO Download the Deccan Herald app for iOS devices here: https://apple.co/30eOFD6 For latest news and updates, log on to www.deccanherald.com Check out our e-paper www.deccanheraldepaper.com To read news on the go, sign up to our Telegram channel t.me/deccanheraldnews
Srinath Raghavan is joined by Shyam Saran as they discuss the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on the Sino-Indian border. They look at the way in which the LAC impacts, and is impacted by the relationship between New Delhi and Beijing. References: How India Sees the World: Kautilya to the 21st Century by Shyam Saran As the LAC heats up, reading China’s playbook by Shyam Saran A Clash in the eastern Ladakh by Shyam Saran
Join us for a conversation with Abhijit Iyer-Mitra about the recent border skirmish between India and China. Cohosted by Josiah Neeley of R Street Institute and Doug McCullough of Lone Star Policy Institute. Produced by Braden McCullough.
Did you realise that Yeh Jo India Hai Na, it has become a little smaller and China just got a bit bigger? It is now clear we have lost control of the land on our side of the Line of Actual Control at Depsang, at the Galwan Valley, at Pangong Lake in Eastern Ladakh and at least 3 areas along our border with China in Arunachal Pradesh as well. The first step to getting any of this land back, would be for the Indian government to categorically accept that contrary to the PM's ‘no intrusion' remarks, substantial incursions have taken place while this government looked away. How else will all this land-grab make it to the negotiation table? Tune in! VO: Rohit Khanna
The consensus on disengagement reached between the Indian and Chinese Corps Commanders on June 22 is yet to be implemented, and at present it's very much a wait-and-watch game for both sides, according to a senior defence source. Meanwhile, satellite images and reports indicate a massive build-up and construction by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh, in Galwan Valley, as well as in the Depsang Plains. This is a story with many angles, and a lot of mixed messaging — the situation along the LAC, the diplomatic relationship, and the Chinese narrative about its claims on the Galwan Valley. Helping us understand just how serious the problem is right now and the sort of time frame it may play out in are National Editor Suhasini Haidar and former China Correspondent Ananth Krishnan. Find the In Focus podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Search for In Focus by The Hindu. Write to us with comments and feedback at socmed4@thehindu.co.in
Let's start with how the global markets have performed. Wall Street’s three major indexes closed higher overnight. The Dow Jones rose 0.5 per cent, the S&P 500 gained 0.43 per cent, and the Nasdaq Composite added 0.74 per cent. Asian stocks also inched higher in early deals. Both the Australian ASX200 and Japan's Nikkei were up 0.3 per cent each in early deals. The SGX Nifty, though, is trading with a slight cut and is indicating an open around 10,470 levels for the Nifty today. In commodities, oil prices pulled back after hitting their highest since early March. Brent was last trading at $42.61 a barrel. On the India-China front, the senior military commanders of the two countries had a 11-hour meeting yesterday after which Beijing welcomed an agreement to “cool down the situation” along the Line of Actual Control. The Covid-19 cases situation, however, is showing almost no signs of improving as India again recorded over 15,000 cases in a day, taking its total to 4.56 lakh, according to Worldometer. The country's death toll is nearing the 14,500 mark. Besides these, individual stocks will react to respective corporate results. Bank of Baroda reported a profit of Rs 507 crore in the March quarter, helped by lower provisioning for bad loans. Asian Paints, though, missed Street estimates and saw its net profit fall 2.1 per cent year-on-year to Rs 461.9 crore as the nationwide lockdown impacted its sales. Today, a total of 85 companies, including the likes of Canara Bank, Indian Oil Corporation, GAIL, and India Cements, are scheduled to announce their March quarter earnings. And, now, a look at other top news of the day. Global private equity fund manager Blackstone has launched a block deal to raise between $250 million and $257 million in Embassy Office Parks REIT. The insurance regulator has allowed all insures – life and non-life – to offer short term health insurance policies specifically for covid-19. Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian, yesterday said a V-shaped recovery for the economy is possible this year, provided a vaccine is found to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. In the absence of a vaccine, the economic recovery will have to wait until next year, although that too is likely to be V-shaped, he said. Meanwhile, the Finance Ministry yesterday said the Indian economy was rebounding, citing examples of food grain procurement, electricity and fertiliser consumption, rail freight traffic, and other indicators. Ahead of its $5.7-billion investment in Jio Platforms, Facebook has sought legal advice pertaining to India’s new FDI policy towards neighbouring countries, particularly China and Hong Kong. While the social media giant is founded and headquartered in the US, being a public-listed company it has investment from several funds based out of China and Hong Kong. And, in the end, a quick look at how the Nifty is looking on the charts. According to HDFC Securities, Nifty yesterday closed on a strong wicket and is headed for the upside target of 10,900, which happens to be the 200-day SMA. Read by Chirinjibi Thapa
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Indian Army Lieutenant General Satish Dua about the recent violent skirmishes along the Line of Actual Control between China and India in Kashmir. He discusses why he believes there is no need for foreign mediation between China and India, the history of clashes between China and India at the border, why there is still conflict despite multiple rounds of talks, whether India is becoming closer to the United States, clashes with Pakistan and allegations against the Pakistani state over terrorist financing, and more! Finally, we speak to legendary former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters. He discusses the threat of nuclear war in 2020, why he believes nuclear weapons need to be abolished across the world, the Black Lives Matter protests which have swept the world since George Floyd’s killing at the hands of US police, the history of the British Empire which is under increased scrutiny, the United States’ attempt at regime change in Venezuela against Nicolas Maduro, Israel’s coming illegal annexation of Palestine’s West Bank, the revelations that Julian Assange had fathered two children during his time in the Ecuadorean Embassy, and more!
For over a month, India and China have been locked in a tense border conflict in eastern Ladakh. The standoff turned violent early this week, leading to the killing of 20 Indian soldiers. Grim as the situation is, it is not quite clear what exactly is happening on the ground, and what it means for relations between the two countries. To demystify the conflict and explain its strategic and political implications, Mehraj D Lone spoke with Happymon Jacob, one of India’s foremost strategic affairs experts. Jacob teaches at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of International Studies, and writes extensively on India’s strategic and foreign policies, the Kashmir dispute, and disarmament. He is the author of The Line of Control: Travelling with the Indian and Pakistani Armies and Line on Fire: Ceasefire Violations and India–Pakistan Escalation Dynamics. In this conversation, held before the faceoff turned violent, Jacob argues that the ongoing conflict is not a usual border transgression. It needs to be seen in the larger geopolitical context of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, potential presence of Chinese soldiers in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, India’s recent declarations about retaking Aksai Chin. As to how India should respond, he says its policymakers must realise that “China doesn’t believe in a peaceful rise anymore”. From a military perspective, he adds, “it’s not all that easy for India to dislodge Chinese soldiers from Ladakh” but it has the upper hand along other parts of the Line of Actual Control. He also talks about dealing with China economically, diplomatically, and in the maritime space, while looking for avenues of cooperation. Jacob also talks about the BJP government’s foreign policy, the abrogation of Article 370 and the introduction of a new domicile policy in Jammu and Kashmir. Tune in! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
From the Newsroom, in today's episode, Fresh step towards peaceful resolution of face-off along Line of Actual Control, Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath in Puri commences, Trump suspended H-1B visas, Shafoora Zargar gets bail, Muslims from India will not be allowed to fly to perform Haj, Kumaraswamy demands 20-day lockdown in Bengaluru and Karnataka Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar's wife and daughter test positive for Covid-19. Download the Deccan Herald app for Android devices here: https://bit.ly/2UgttIO Download the Deccan Herald app for iOS devices here: https://apple.co/30eOFD6 For latest news and updates, log on to www.deccanherald.com Check out our e-paper www.deccanheraldepaper.com To read news on the go, sign up to our Telegram channel t.me/deccanheraldnews
Aeronautical engineer and retired test pilot Joseph Thomas talks to host Pavan Srinath about aerial survey and mapping of the India-China border, about the evolution of mapping technology in the subcontinent, and about the longest contested border in the world. Mr Thomas discusses how maps were drawn and land was measured between the 19th century and today, the advent of aerial mapping in India, to where we are today. He elaborates on his time in aerial mapping using Canberra aircraft, a time when India had better maps of the border areas and a technological lead over China for almost two decades. He also discusses how international borders are delineated and demarcated, and provides context for the full long India-China border, as well as the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh. Joseph Thomas is an Indian Air Force pilot who flew transport and logistics during the 1962 Indo-China War. From 1967 to 1971 he flew in the reconnaissance and aerial survey squadron, taking part in border surveys, and aerial mapping of the entire country. He is also a test pilot and helped start the Indian Air Force Test Pilot School. He retired as a Wing Commander in 1984, and was awarded a Vayu Sena Medal. BIC Talks is brought to you by the Bangalore International Centre. Visit the BIC website for show notes, links and more information about the guest.
After rallying nearly 3 per cent last week, the Indian markets are likely to start this week on a flat note with a negative bias, on the back of similar trend in global indices. The SGX Nifty was trading at 10,190 levels at 7:15 AM. Among Asian indices, South Korea's Kospi and Austrlia's ASX were trading 0.8 per cent lower while Japan's Nikkei was flat. Geopolitical developments and trend in Covid-19 cases will set the tone for equity markets this week while expiry of June series derivatve contracts is expected to inject some volatility as traders will roll over their positions to next month Besides, trend in global markets, and foreign fund movement would also dictate sentiments, while the last leg of March quarter earnings will trigger stock-specific movements. Eight days after recording 3 lakh Covid-19 cases, India went past the 4 lakh-mark on Sunday with the biggest single-day spike of 15,915 new infections, while the death toll rose to 13,294, according to Worldometer. Globally, over 89 lakh people have been infected so far. Some countries are witnessing a second-wave with the most notable resurgence seen in China’s capital Beijing. As such, trend in Covid-19 infections in India and globally will remain a key monitorable for market participants. Investors will also keep a keen eye on the vaccine front. Hetero will launch remdesivir, an injectable drug from Gilead, to treat hospitalised Covid-19 patients this week. Traders will also monitor the escalating tensions between India and China. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday told India’s top military brass to be “fully prepared” to take any unprecedented action at the Line of Actual Control. Any increase in tensions can have an immediate impact on the markets. On the results front, more than 600 companies are scheduld to release their quarterly earnings this week, which includes the likes of ITC, Asian Paints, GAIL India, Coal India, and IRCTC. On the macro front, current account data for the fourth quarter will be released on June 26. Globally, investors will be eyeing some ket macro-economic reports from the US including Manufacturing PMI, GDP growth rate, and the results of Fed stress test for big banks. Now, some other top news. The RBI has asked banks to carry out detailed stress tests due to the impact of Covid-19 on their books and put capital-raising plans with board approvals in place, if needed. Sources have told Business Standard that the Union home ministry is likely to stall security clearance to a clutch of Chinese companies seeking to invest in India, in sync with the current sentiment. The YES Bank board is meeting today to take a call to raise up to Rs 10,000 crore via a follow-on share sale to help boost its capital base. US President Donald Trump said late on Saturday he would announce new restrictions on visas within a couple of days to block the entry of certain foreign workers. Any such step would directly impact the IT stocks back home. And, in the end, a technical look at the Nifty. The Nifty last closed at 10,244, above its 100-day moving average on Friday. According to analysts, all eyes will now be on 10,350, a level from which the index retreated twice last week. If the Nifty manages to breach this level, the next stop could be 10,550. Read by: Chirinjibi Thapa
Sovereignty over two relatively large and several smaller separated pieces of territory has been contested between China and India. Aksai Chin is located either in the Indian union territory of Ladakh or the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang. It is a virtually uninhabited high-altitude wasteland crossed by the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway. The other disputed territory lies south of the McMahon Line. It was formerly referred to as the North East Frontier Agency, and is now called Arunachal Pradesh. The McMahon Line was part of the 1914 Simla Convention between British India and Tibet, without the agreement of China.[1] weki #Indianborderdispute #Indianborder The 1962 #SinoIndian War was fought in both of these areas. An agreement to resolve the dispute was concluded in 1996, including "confidence-building measures" and a mutually agreed Line of Actual Control. In 2006, the Chinese ambassador to India claimed that all of Arunachal Pradesh is Chinese territory[2] amidst a military buildup.[3] At the time, both countries claimed incursions as much as a kilometre at the northern tip of Sikkim.[4] In 2009, India announced it would deploy additional military forces along the border.[5] In 2014, India proposed China should acknowledge a "One India" policy to resolve the border dispute.[6][7] --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vegansteven/message
Member of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), former Commander of 3 Corps & China expert Gen (Retd) SL Narasimhan tells ThePrint's National & Strategic Affairs editor Jyoti Malhotra that by coming across the Line of Actual Control into Indian territory in Ladakh, the Chinese were trying to change the status quo, that the scuffle occurred in the darkness between Indian and Chinese soldiers on the evening-night of 15 June, that they used maces, clubs and sticks and pelted stones at each other, that the Chinese wanted to ensure that they took control of the Galwan valley. He added that the Chinese were not objecting to the Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi road but to the roads and bridges leading towards the LAC, and that India would not stop upgrading the border infrastructure on its own side of the LAC.
There have been several claims about the extent of Chinese incursions or military build-up along the Line of Actual Control. What do international military experts say by analysing new, clearer satellite images. How worried should India be. In episode 501 of ThePrint's #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta explains the build-up through the insights of impartial satellite-intelligence experts. Read the IISS analysis here: https://www.iiss.org/blogs/analysis/2020/06/china-india-borderRead the Twitter thread by Nathan Ruser here: https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1273492674331303936?s=20Read Christopher Clary's tweets here: https://twitter.com/clary_co/status/1273619175379009538?s=20
Tensions along the Line of Actual Control border between India and China have spiked. After an Indian army officer and two soldiers were killed in the Galwan area of Ladakh. The Indian army said in a statement on Tuesday. This is the first time in decades that a clash involving casualties has taken place on the 3,488 kilometre border between India and China. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latestnewssuno/support
As a Lt-Col and two Indian soldiers were killed Monday night — 45 years after the last incident of violence on the Line of Actual Control — by Chinese soldiers as they “deescalated” from the Galwan Valley after six months of intruding into Indian territory, former Ambassador to China Ashoka Kantha tells ThePrint’s Strategic Affairs editor Jyoti Malhotra that the situation is more serious than what happened in Doklam in 2017 and that the Chinese must be told to return to status quo ante
A commanding officer of Indian Army and two soldiers were killed in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night. This was during a violent face off between Indian and Chinese soldiers, the Army said in a brief statement. When did it all start? From the third week of April, over 5,000 Chinese soldiers have intruded at five points in India's Ladakh. These are Chumar, Demchok, Pangong and two places near DBO.The People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) ingress into the Galwan River valley opens up a new and worrying chapter. On May 5, around 250 soldiers of Indian and Chinese army personnel were engaged in a face-off along the northern bank of the Pangong Lake and even resorted to stone-pelting. For the past five weeks, several Indian and Chinese troops have been engaged in an eyeball-to-eyeball situation in Galwan Valley. After 1975, this is the first violent incident on the India-China border in which casualties have taken place. It comes days after Indian Army Chief, General M M Naravane said both sides have begun disengaging from Galwan Valley. Line of Actual Control Galwan Valley is one of the four standoff points in the eastern Ladakh sector. The India-China border dispute covers the 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control, the de-facto border between the two countries. Well, patrol intrusions from both sides are routine in areas where the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is disputed, the LAC in the Galwan Valley corresponds to China’s official claim line.This means, in sending thousands of the PLA troops three-to-four kilometres into the Galwan Valley, China has violated its own claim line and occupied territory that Beijing has traditionally acknowledged to be Indian. Why are the two sides clashing? The face-off is believed to be in reaction to India steadily building infrastructure in Ladakh and the increase in local civilian activity on the Indian side of LAC. For China, this is an irritant because India is rapidly narrowing down the infrastructure gap in Ladakh. While India has not obstructed in any manner the activities of the Chinese on their side of the LAC, whether it is putting up of the pre-fabricated structures or an increase in their patrolling. The Chinese patrol units have been aggressive in expressing their displeasure to the Indian army activity on the DBO road. This has manifested in their activity in Galwan sector, Pangong lake and other strategic areas. However, there is little clarity within the government about why the Chinese have triggered this intrusion. Some officials speculate that Beijing is punishing New Delhi for publishing a revised map of the former state of Jammu & Kashmir in November, which showed Aksai Chin — which both countries claim, but China occupies — as a part of India. Another viewpoint holds that the traditionally peaceful Galwan River has now become a hotspot because it is where the LAC is closest to the new road India has built along the Shyok River to Daulet Beg Oldi (DBO) — the most remote and vulnerable area along the LAC in Ladakh. What is India saying officially? Indian Army in a statement said that during the de-escalation process which is underway in the Galwan Valley, a violent face-off took place on Monday night with "casualties suffered on both sides." "The loss of lives on the Indian side includes An Indian Army Colonel, the Commanding Officer of an infantry battalion, and two soldiers," Indian Army said. The statement read that Major Generals of India and China are currently engaged in a meeting at the face-off site to defuse the situation. On Monday, Brigade Commander and company level talks happened in Eastern Ladakh between India and China. The talks are happening near patrolling point 14, near the mouth of Galwan Valley and patrolling point 17 at Hot Spring Area. Earlier looking to resolve the dispute over Chinese military buildup, India and China were holding talks in Eastern Ladakh. Army sourc
Tensions along the Line of Actual Control between India and China have been high for close to a month. Stand-off incidents and heavy deployments have been reported at multiple points along the LAC. At the Pangong Lake in Ladakh, Chinese troops are now present in what India sees as its territory. On May 6, India and China held talks at the military level to address the situation, but there is as yet no agreement on returning to the status quo. How unusual are the current tensions on the border? What are the prospects of a solution? Is there a broader Chinese game in Ladakh? How do internal political developments in Beijing impact China's posture? Guest: Jayadeva Ranade, a former Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, and President, Centre for China Analysis and Strategy. Find the In Focus podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Search for In Focus by The Hindu. Write to us with comments and feedback at socmed4@thehindu.co.in
Dr Happymon Jacob speaks with Lt. Gen. H. S. Panag (Retd.) (Former GOC in C Northern Command and Central Commands, Indian Army. Former Member of Armed Forces Tribunal) on the ongoing India China military standoff on the Line of Actual Control. They discuss how the latest standoff is unprecedented and more worrying than the previous border skirmishes. Lt. Gen. Panag argues that the Chinese have chosen to alter the status quo at selected locations and are using a ‘Differing Perceptions' paradigm to justify their actions. Therefore, India must challenge this narrative and call out China's expansionist policies to set the narrative straight. Lt. Gen. Panag also argues that if India does not push back at this stage, China will only increase such behaviour in the future. The conversation ends with Gen. Panag's thoughts on how New Delhi can counter these incursions.
ഇന്ത്യയുടെ സായുധസന്നാഹത്തെയും പ്രതിരോധകാര്യങ്ങളേയും പതിറ്റാണ്ടുകളായി സൂക്ഷ്മമായി പഠിച്ചു വരുന്ന മുതിർന്ന പത്രപ്രവർത്തകൻ ആർ . പ്രസന്നനുമായി എസ് . ഗോപാലകൃഷ്ണൻ നടത്തുന്ന അഭിമുഖ സംഭാഷണമാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പോഡ്കാസ്റ്റ്. പ്രധാനമായും നാലു വിഷയങ്ങളെ കുറിച്ചാണ് ഈ സംഭാഷണം . ഇന്ത്യയും ചൈനയും തമ്മിൽ ജൂൺ ആറിന് നടന്ന ചർച്ചയിൽ എന്താണ് സംഭവിച്ചത് ?, ഇന്ത്യ കരുതുന്നത് Line of Actual Control 3488 കിലോമീറ്റർ ആണ് എന്നാണെങ്കിൽ ചൈന കരുതുന്നത് വെറും 2000 കിലോമീറ്റർ മാത്രമാണെന്നാണ് . ഈ വ്യത്യാസത്തിന്റെ ചരിത്രപരമായ കാരണങ്ങൾ, 1991 ൽ നരസിംഹറാവു -ലീ പെങ് ചർച്ച മുന്നോട്ടു കൊണ്ടുപോകുന്നതിൽ ഇരു രാജ്യങ്ങളും പരാജയപ്പെട്ടോ ? ചൈനയുടെ അക്രമോൽസുകതയാണോ അതോ ഇന്ത്യയുടെ അനവധാനതയാണോ കാരണം ?, കോവിഡ് പ്രശ്നത്തിൽ ചൈനീസ് ജനതയുടെ ശ്രദ്ധ തിരിച്ചു വിടാനുള്ള അവിടുത്തെ സർക്കാർ നയത്തിന്റെ ഭാഗമാണോ ഈ പുതിയ കടന്നു കയറ്റത്തിനുള്ള കാരണം ? ഇന്ത്യ -ചൈനാ അതിർത്തി സംഘർഷത്തെ കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഒരു സമഗ്ര അവലോകനമാണ് ഈ പോഡ്കാസ്റ്റ് . ശ്രോതാക്കൾ സ്വീകരിക്കും എന്ന് പ്രത്യാശിക്കുന്നു . ശ്രീ ആർ . പ്രസന്നന് വലിയ നന്ദി
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Former foreign secretary and former ambassador to China Nirupama Rao tells ThePrint’s Jyoti Malhotra that several proposals to resolve the disputed India-China boundary — from Zhou EnLai in 1960 to Deng Xiaoping in the early 1980s to Atal Behari Vajpayee in 2003 and the 2005 India-China agreement — have achieved little because China does not even want to sit down, exchange maps and identify pockets of difference on the Line of Actual Control.
Breaking the silence on the continuing border stand-offs with China, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on May 30 said that the issue would be resolved through diplomatic dialogue. The government has, however, kept mum on what exactly the issues are. What do we know about the incidents along the Line of Actual Control? Where are the current tensions? What are the prospects of disengagement? Interview by Ananth Krishnan Guest: Dinakar Peri, New Delhi–based Defence Correspondent. Write to us with comments and feedback at socmed4@thehindu.co.in
#ThePrintUninterruptedChina is trying to change the status quo along the Line of Actual Control with India, Yashwant Sinha, external affairs and finance minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government tells ThePrint's national and strategic affairs editor Jyoti Malhotra. Sinha pointed out that Vajpayee was always on his guard while dealing with China, that the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladkah, the site of the current standoff between Indian and Chinese soldiers, has never been in dispute and that prime minister Narendra Modi, who has tried to become friendly with China, has not succeeded. He described Army chief M M Naravane's comments on Nepal as being "eminently avoidable," and said the Modi government's neighbourhood policy is in tatters. "You cannot be condescending with Nepal, no matter the temptation,"
Dr Happymon Jacob in conversation with Amb. Nirupama Menon Rao (Former Foreign Secretary, Former Ambassador to China), Col. Ajai Shukla (Senior Defense Journalist) and Lt. Gen. Vinod Bhatia (Former DGMO, Indian Army) to understand the recent spate of incursions carried out by the PLA along the Line of Actual Control. The discussion focuses on the reasons why the latest incursions are different from what is usually seen and seek to understand why the Chinese leadership would choose to behave aggressively during a global pandemic. Discussants also shed light on the options India has in the short and long term in order to diffuse the current situation and to create mechanisms that may prevent a repeat of such incidents in the future.
Starting in the third week of April, over 5,000 Chinese soldiers have intruded at five points in India's Ladakh. These are Chumar, Demchok, Pangong and two places near DBO. The PLA’s ingress into the Galwan River valley opens up a new and worrying chapter. On May 5th around 250 soldiers of Indian and Chinese army personnel were engaged in a face-off along the northern bank of the Pangong Lake and even resorted to stone-pelting. A number of soldiers on both sides sustained injuries.The situation in the area remained tense after the violent clashes between the troops. Sources say 72 soldiers were injured in the confrontation at Pangong Lake and some had to be flown to hospitals in Leh, Chandi Mandir and Delhi. It was the first case of troops from the two sides exchanging blows after a similar incident around the Pangong Lake in August 2017. After the clash, Chinese military helicopters were spotted flying close to the undemarcated border between India and China in Eastern Ladakh. A fleet of Su-30 fighters of the Indian Air Force too carried out sorties in the area The Indian Army admits that there was an incident involving helicopters from both sides, but states it was a “coincidence” that the Chinese helicopters were there. The Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria admitted in an interview this week that there was Chinese helicopter activity in the area, but claimed that the IAF was taking “necessary action”. Line of Actual Control The India-China border dispute covers the 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control, the de-facto border between the two countries. Well, patrol intrusions from both sides are routine in areas where the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is disputed, the LAC in the Galwan Valley corresponds to China’s official claim line. This means, in sending thousands of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops three-to-four kilometres into the Galwan Valley, China has violated its own claim line and occupied territory that Beijing has traditionally acknowledged to be Indian. This is not shaping up like a routine patrol confrontation, this time PLA soldiers were digging defences, preparing bunkers, moving in heavy vehicles and have reportedly even moved artillery guns to the rear to support the intruders. The Chinese have pitched close to a hundred tents at four points on the Galwan River between Patrolling Point 14 and another location called Gogra. Indian troops in the area were taken by surprise when a large Chinese force crossed the LAC in late April. Since then, Indian forces have not challenged or confronted the PLA. Sources say the PLA is expanding its presence. There are fresh reports that it has initiated another infiltration in Southern Ladakh. In a separate incident, nearly 150 Indian and Chinese military personnel were engaged in a face-off near Naku La Pass in the Sikkim sector of the Sino-India border on Saturday. At least 10 soldiers from both sides sustained injuries in the incident. Why are the two sides clashing? The current face-off is believed to be in reaction to India steadily building infrastructure in Ladakh and the increase in local civilian activity on the Indian side of LAC. For China, this is an irritant because India is rapidly narrowing down the infrastructure gap in Ladakh. While India has not obstructed in any manner the activities of the Chinese on their side of the LAC, whether it is putting up of the pre-fabricated structures or an increase in their patrolling. The Chinese patrol units have been aggressive in expressing their displeasure to the Indian army activity on the DBO road. This has manifested in their activity in Galwan sector, Pangong lake and other strategic areas. However, there is little clarity within the government about why the Chinese have triggered this intrusion, along with another simultaneously in Sikkim. Some officials speculate that Beijing is punishing New Delhi for publishing a
#ThePrintUninterruptedThe former Army commander of the Northern Command, Lt Gen D S Hooda, under whose jurisdiction lies the Union Territory of Ladakh where the current intrusions both in the Galwan valley and the Panggong Tso are taking place, tells ThePrint's strategic affairs editor Jyoti Malhotra that the Chinese intrusions across the perceived Line of Actual Control are a means of putting pressure on India. China is sending the message that India should not believe it is on the backfoot in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Hooda added.
Dr. Happymon Jacob in conversation with Amb. Nirupama Menon Rao (Former Foreign Secretary, Former Ambassador to China), Col. Ajai Shukla (Senior Defense Journalist) and Lt. Gen. Vinod Bhatia (Former DGMO, Indian Army) to understand the recent spate of incursions carried out by the PLA along the Line of Actual Control. The discussion focuses on the reasons why the latest incursions are different from what is usually seen, and seeks to understand why the Chinese leadership would choose to behave aggressively during a global pandemic. Discussants also shed light on the options India has in the short and long term in order to diffuse the current situation and to create mechanisms that may prevent a repeat of such incidents in the future.
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