The defence ministry said it had detected 47 mainland Chinese warplanes near Taiwan in the 24 hours to 6am on Tuesday – the largest number since the PLA simulated a blockade of the island on October 14 in an exercise dubbed Joint Sword-2024B. The PLA sent 153 warplanes for that drill. In the latest exercise, … Read more
Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House was not the surprise it was when he won his first term, Chinese officials have said, and this time, policy strategy and contingencies have been planned well in advance. When Trump won the 2016 US presidential election, Beijing, like the rest of world, was caught off guard … Read more
A mere 30 per cent of the American public believe trade with China has created “some or a lot of jobs” in their state, a new study revealed in the lead-up to the US election. The East-West Centre, a Washington-based research organisation, found in a survey that a slight majority of the American public – … Read more
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday emphasized that the Indo-Pacific region should pursue a development-based approach rather than one pivoted on expansionism. Modi said this in his address at the East Asia Summit (EAS) in Laos amid heightened tensions between China and the Philippines over territorial control in the South China Sea. “The … Read more
Narendra Modi | (Photo: Shutterstock) 3 min read Last Updated : Sep 22 2024 | 3:59 PM IST India has announced a new initiative to award fifty Quad scholarships, worth $500,000, to students from the Indo-Pacific. These scholarships will enable students to pursue a four-year undergraduate engineering programme at a Government of India-funded … Read more
New Delhi: On his first visit to the United States in his third term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held extensive conversations with outgoing US President Joe Biden and attended the Quad Summit, with a focus on strengthening defence, technology, commerce, and Indo-Pacific partnership. Modi and Biden held extensive discussions to assess their “comprehensive global strategic … Read more
Asked what Mr Blinken will say to allies about Mr Biden’s decision to step aside and whether it could bring changes in policy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink said the message would be that America is “all-in on the Indo-Pacific”. “We do try to reassure allies and partners … Read more
India sees Japan as a “natural partner” in its journey, development and transformation, and in its quest for peace, prosperity and stability in the strategic Indo-Pacific region, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday as he held “very productive” talks with his Japanese counterpart Kamikawa Yoko. In his opening remarks at the 16th India-Japan … Read more
