India’s “energy diplomacy” with Russia will reap strategic dividends
Vladimir Putin embraces Narendra Modi during a session at SPIEF in 2017. PHOTO: AFP
India’s “energy diplomacy” with Russia will reap strategic dividends
It must be cautioned, however, that this scenario would risk complicating India’s recent rapprochement with China
The opening of the “Indian Energy Centre” in Moscow on Tuesday will reap strategic dividends for both sides. One of the world’s largest energy importers is showing its keen interest in expanding cooperation with one of the world’s largest energy exporters. It’s a perfect match between natural partners, but there’s more to it than just business. This development represents the long-overdue decision by New Delhi to more eagerly engage in “energy diplomacy” with Moscow, which will assist the recalibration of both of their delicate “balancing” acts between Great Powers, especially China. India simultaneously wants to re
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Narendra Modi embraces Donald Trump upon his arrival in Ahmedabad on February 24, 2020. PHOTO: AFP
How India’s regional strategy is adapting to the post-Trump reality
In this changing environment, India no longer plays the same role for American strategy as before
India surprised many of its critics by successfully carrying out the synchronised disengagement of its forces along the northern Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China as well as agreeing to a de facto ceasefire along its western LAC with Pakistan. These developments prove that India’s regional strategy is adapting to the post-Trump reality. The South Asian state will still remain among America’s top strategic partners anywhere in the world, but the Biden Administration doesn’t seem as interested in instrumentalising this relationship as part of its declared “Great Power competition” as the previous one was. After all, President Biden’s team is currently reviewing every aspect of their country’s approac
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The UN’s concerns about IIOJK are valid
Kashmiris and international supporters must keep the global pressure on India through international fora like the UN
Fernand de Varennes and Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteurs on minority issues and freedom of religion or belief respectively, published their concerns about Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) last week. They criticised New Delhi’s August 2019 abrogation of Article 370 as “suggest[ing] the people of Jammu and Kashmir no longer have their own government and have lost power to legislate or amend laws in the region to ensure the protection of their rights as minorities.” The experts also warned that “The number of successful applicants for domicile certificates that appear to be from outside Jammu and Kashmir raises concerns that demographic change on a linguistic, religious and ethnic basis is already underway.” In response, India claimed that the report “calls int
How Russia’s special Afghan envoy wants to save the struggling peace process
A Taliban delegation holds a press conference after a meeting with Zamir Kabulov. PHOTO: AFP
How Russia’s special Afghan envoy wants to save the struggling peace process
Russia has a tangible incentive to see its diplomatic initiatives in Afghanistan succeed
Russian Special Envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov gave an exclusive interview to publicly financed Sputnik about his plan to save the country’s struggling peace process. He was
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Although Russia officially designated the Taliban as a terrorist organisation, this hasn’t precluded the country from pragmatically engaging with the group on a political basis in order to incorporate it into the peace process. To this end, Moscow even hosted the Taliban on several occasions. These events were extremely symbolic considering the fact that the Taliban grew out of the 1980s Mujahidin movement that was formed to fight against the Soviet military dur
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