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Coronavirus: Impact on Chinese Economy and BRI

Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan, AVSM, VSM (Retd) states that the major epidemic of Coronavirus that has been spreading in China is going to have severe impact on Chinese global economy, It originated from Wuhan, a major logistics and road-rail junction that directly impacts three land corridors of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — Central Asia & Iran, Pakistan and Nepal.

India, Japan Developing Cooperation 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue

Brig Narender, SM, VSM (Retd) writes, India and Japan are moving towards special strategic and global partnership. India requires a strategic partner to pursue India’s ‘Act East Policy’ and similarly Japan also needs a partner for ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision’.

Reading The Tea Leaves V: Negated Negotiations & Emollient Elections

Lt Gen Ghanshyam Singh Katoch (Retd) Writes: At 3.51 PM on 07 Sep 2019 President Donald Trump tweeted the until then secret information, of an impending talks with the Taliban at Camp David scheduled for 08 Sep i.e. the next day. He also informed that they were now cancelled.The tweet was no surprise. What would have been surprising was if the talks had continued regardless of the suicide car-bomb attack at Kabul’s Green Zone on 05 Sep 2019 which killed one US and Romanian soldier each and 10 Afghan civilian

Indian Options to Thwart Pakistan – Post 370

A full-fledged hybrid war against Pakistan will badly distract us from our larger goals. India’s on-going strategy of incident based punitive response has posed serious caution on them.  It is a good strategy and we need to refine it and keep it updated. We need a calibrated and covert response than professing outright hostility. This will bring as greater dividends.