New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) As India rises, Prime Minister Narendra Modi must create a regional and security doctrine commensurate with India’s economic infrastructure and role in the world. PM Modi – already India’s third longest-serving Prime Minister – has likely contributed more to infrastructure development of India than all his predecessors together and navigated the country through several challenges, a report has highlighted. Writing in The Sunday Guardian, Michael Rubin, Director of Po…
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Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) China has lost its influence over two strategic ports in Panama this year, a report stated while highlighting what it said appears like a bad start to the year for the Chinese Communist Party in Latin America. “What’s more, the Cuban dictatorship began to crumble, and Latin America is generally slamming the door on buying military equipment from Beijing,” Arturo McFields, an exiled journalist and former Nicaraguan Ambassador to the Organisation of American States, wrot…
Washington, Jan 8 (IANS) The US Congress is sharply divided over President Donald Trump’s expanding use of military and economic power abroad, with lawmakers from both parties offering starkly different readings of the administration’s actions in Venezuela and its broader foreign policy posture.Top Democratic opposition leaders on Wednesday (local time) accused the Trump Administration of bypassing Congress, shifting rationales, and risking another prolonged overseas entanglement.Lawmakers from …
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) President Donald Trump described the US military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro as a highly complex and tactically precise mission, praising American forces for what he called a “brilliant” execution under dangerous conditions.Speaking at the House GOP Members’ Retreat, Trump said the operation involved significant risks, including heavy fire directed at US helicopters as troops moved in. He said American forces were exposed dur…
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) United States operation to capture Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is a decisive demonstration of a new Washington posture that prioritises the Western Hemisphere, even at the potential expense of long‑standing focus on China in the Indo‑Pacific, according to a report. “The military has followed through by pulling most of the 12-plus ships in the Caribbean from previously planned European and Pacific deployments. This includes the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, which…
Washington, Jan 6 (IANS) Russia at one point signaled a willingness to allow the United States latitude in Venezuela in exchange for Washington easing its position on Ukraine, according to seven-year-old congressional testimony by Fiona Hill, a former senior National Security Council official, an account that has resurfaced amid renewed scrutiny of great-power bargaining.The episode was recalled in New York Times report on Monday and traces back to testimony Hill delivered to Congress in 2019, w…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) Since the successful operation in Venezuela that led to its leader Nicolas Maduro’s detention, US President Donald Trump is exuberating in confidence, reiterating establishing “American dominance in the Western hemisphere” which will “never be questioned again”. Over the weekend in the US, reports quote him having issued warnings to countries including Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Iran and Greenland. Incidentally, Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark, w…