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Strategic thinker, author, commentator

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Brahma Chellaney

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In its centennial anniversary issue released today, @ForeignAffairs has a special review section, "Books for the Century." My book, Water: Asia's New Battleground, has been named as one of the six essential Asia-Pacific books published over the century.

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Books for the Century: Asia and Pacific

Nathan reviews books on the trends shaping Asia and the Pacific, including population decline, shrinking water supplies, and clashes over different economic models.

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Zelensky admits Russia now holds one-fifth of Ukraine, the largest country entirely within Europe. What he didn't acknowledge is that Russia controls Ukraine's industrial heartland, 90% of its energy resources (including all of offshore oil), and its critical ports and shipping.

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The West wants India to condemn Russia's invasion but which Western leader has condemned China's aggression against India or urged China to pull back its forces? Biden hasn’t uttered a word, and his State Department on Feb. 3 urged India and China to find a "peaceful resolution"!

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Some Muslim states that have been mute on China's assault on Islam, including incarcerating over a million Muslims and confiscating Korans, have played up the anti-Muslim remarks of two Indians now expelled from the ruling party. Is it because they perceive India as a soft state?

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When a small, bankrupt nation like Sri Lanka delivers a diplomatic slap to New Delhi by hosting a Chinese surveillance ship at its commercial port of Hambantota, it is a stunning reminder of both India's feckless foreign policy and receding influence in its strategic backyard.

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Canada and India are friends, not foes. But Trudeau, with his political alliance with Sikh radicals in Canada, has brought bilateral ties with India under increasing strain. After being chastised by Modi during his recent New Delhi visit for being soft on Sikh terrorists, Trudeau…

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If India, in Trudeau-style, had declared a national emergency and crushed peaceful protests, it would have faced some Western sanctions. But Trudeau's lurch to authoritarianism has been whitewashed by Western elites who rarely practice what they preach, including on human rights.

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India's noisy democracy breeds resistance to any reform, including deploying fitter, younger troops. New recruiting rules will help cut soldiers' average age from 32 to 25. The best of the best will secure permanent soldier positions; the rest can join police and other services.

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Thanks to COVID-19, many nations learned hard lessons about China-reliant supply chains. And the Quad agreed to build resilient supply chains. But now, thanks to Biden's hoarding of vaccines and raw materials, many nations are learning hard lessons about US-reliant supply chains.

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From his hideout, Zelenskiy said by video, "Russian troops are shooting at a nuclear power plant," claiming Russian tanks had shot at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Western media began reporting the plant was on fire. It turns out that the fire was at a nearby training building.

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One of journalism's basic rules: Be sensitive while reporting on grief and tragedy. Yet large sections of the Western media have abandoned that rule while covering India's Covid disaster. They draw encouragement from India's own unethical media which swarms victims like vultures.

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India has officially labeled Canada an international terrorist sanctuary — “a safe haven for terrorists, for extremists, and for organized crime,” in the words of the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson.

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Transcript of Weekly Media Briefing by the Official Spokesperson (September 21, 2023)

Transcript of Weekly Media Briefing by the Official Spokesperson (September 21, 2023)

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Indian media failed to highlight the most important comment of the new Army chief: The Ukraine war has shown "how the battle of narratives has been used to gain advantage over the adversary. We need to focus on this new domain of warfare." India is particularly weak in this area.

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Biden's deputy NSA Daleep Singh: "if China breaches the LAC, Russia wouldn't come running to India's defense." It's not a question of "if." China has been waging border aggression against India for 23 months by breaching the LAC, but Biden refuses to open his mouth on that issue.

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At a time when China's 20-month-long border aggression has resulted in a warlike situation along the Himalayan front, the tragic death of India's chief of defense staff, Gen. Rawat, his wife and 11 other military personnel in a helicopter crash couldn't have come at a worse time.

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When India struck a terrorist hideout deep inside Pakistan at Balakot in 2019, the Indian media's drumbeat demanded India present evidence before media. Now the Indian media are unquestioningly lapping up US claims, however specious, about ISIS-K, Taliban, Haqqani and US strikes.

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Nothing can be more humiliating to China than India's use of its Special Frontier Force comprising mainly Tibetan exiles to foil the latest PLA incursion. A distrusting China excludes Tibetans from the PLA. But the valor of India's Tibetan soldiers made the PLA intruders retreat.

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Biden repeats his favorite line: "There is no question Russia is the aggressor." But when will Biden break his silence on China's ongoing aggression against India, including the massing of up to 200,000 troops? Why doesn't he condemn that buildup and ask Xi to pull back forces?

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Putin’s larger geopolitical aim is to restore Russia as a world power. Like the American and Chinese record in employing force, Russia believes that might makes right. The plain fact is that international law is powerful against the powerless, and powerless against the powerful.

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Chinese mobile app firms and other tech firms are beholden to the CCP under Chinese law. As extensions of the Chinese state, they pose a national security risk. India has done well to ban 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok. In the next step, it should ban Huawei and ZTE equipment.

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Clearheaded and plainspoken, Gen. Rawat became India's public face on China's aggression. While the political leadership has been reticent to even utter the word "China," one could always count on Gen. Rawat to name names and call a spade a spade. Filling the void won't be easy.

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For decades, U.S. armed Pakistan to the teeth, a role China later took over to box India in. Now, after the Trump-era hiatus, U.S. has resumed rearming Pakistan, approving a $450 million deal to upgrade its F16 fleet against India while falsely claiming it's for counterterrorism.

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China's military buildup against India surpasses Russia's buildup against Ukraine. But Blinken, speaking in Melbourne alongside the other Quad foreign ministers, harped on Russia's potential aggression against Ukraine while staying mum on China's ongoing aggression against India.

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This is people's power in Hong Kong that terrifies the Xi Jinping dictatorship in Beijing. In the 11th consecutive weekend of mass demonstrations, more than a million, umbrella-carrying people turned up in rain to peacefully march in support of democracy.

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Here's the paradox: At a time when India confronts China's border aggression, including its threat of a full-scale war, Biden won't open his mouth on that aggression. Yet an insensitive Biden calls "shaky" India's response to a distant war he helped provoke with a forward policy.

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India's 3.1 million NGOs largely rely on foreign funding. So, today's Supreme Court ruling is significant, as India lacks a law like US’s FARA, under which any NGO financed "in whole or in major part” by a foreign entity must register as a “foreign agent.”

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Covid battered the West but its media showed graphic scenes only from developing states. Pulitzer feature photography prizes mirrored such racial stereotyping. Contrast the haunting India images that won the 2022 prize with the sanitized images from Spain that won the 2021 prize.

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Let's face it: The role of U.S. intelligence in emboldening Trudeau to pick a geopolitical fight with India could have a bearing on the direction of U.S.-India ties, not least by reinforcing India's imperative for strategic autonomy. The task of building mutual trust now becomes…

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A bankrupt Sri Lanka may be staying afloat with Indian aid, yet it scorns India's strategic concerns. After hosting up to Aug. 15 Pakistan's new PRC-built frigate (named after the destroyer of Delhi, Taimur), it will host a Chinese military ship whose visit India had objected to.

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France has arrested over 1,000 in the current protests. In Canada, Trudeau declared an emergency to crush peaceful protests. In the US, police killings of civilians have crossed 1,000 for three consecutive years. Imagine the Western reaction had such excesses occurred in India.

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A tale of two democracies: India's Supreme Court compels authorities in one state to withdraw notices to rioters for damaging public property. Canada criminalizes peaceful protests and freezes, without due process, protesters' personal bank accounts and anyone who helped them.

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Modi is celebrating his 69th birthday by visiting Narmada Dam. This dam is 15½ times smaller in generating capacity than the Three Gorges Dam. While China completed Three Gorges ahead of schedule, India has struggled for decades to fully complete Narmada, thanks to powerful NGOs.

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The national outpouring of emotions over Gen. Bipin Rawat's death shows how India comes together in a tragedy. The best way to honor him would be to advance military reforms, including reorganizing the Army, Air Force and Navy into an integrated force with joint theater commands.

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Nonstop air bombardments for 42 days preceded US's 1991 ground attack on Iraq. NATO's military operation that unraveled Libya lasted over 7 months. It's too early to judge how Russia's Ukraine invasion, now just in Day 6, is going as truth is the first casualty in the fog of war.

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Israel, like India, is a fractious and polarized democracy. Yet, after Hamas's unparalleled terror offensive led to "the worst day in Israeli history," opposition leaders, far from asking Netanyahu to resign, have sent out a joint message of unity and support for the government.

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The world's biggest military buildup is China’s buildup against India. But India is calmly handling China’s war threat. Biden has ruled out U.S. coming to Ukraine’s direct defense. Yet the drumbeats of war, ironically, are coming not from Russia or Ukraine but from Washington.

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India's foreign minister: "Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe's problems are the world's problems, but the world's problems are not Europe's problems." Despite its record of two world wars, Europe is again fanning the flames of war while squeezing poorer countries.

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India is a major target of CCP's hybrid warfare, which, as the Pentagon says, is enshrined in China’s strategy as the “Three Warfares” doctrine. The Three Warfares are psychological warfare, infowar and lawfare. Sadly, some in India unwittingly give such warfare a helping hand.

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As new Covid cases sadly hit record high in a number of EU states, with hospitals swamped and deaths rising, Western media have aptly avoided presenting harrowing images. Contrast that with the way Western media trafficked in images of death and suffering in India in April-May.

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Gen. Rawat's death has an eerie parallel with the helicopter crash in early 2020 that killed Taiwan's chief of general staff, Gen. Shen Yi-ming, and seven others, including two major generals. Each helicopter crash eliminated a key figure in the defense against PRC's aggression.

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"Xi has picked a border fight with India that China cannot win. India, by locking horns with China in military standoffs despite the risk of a full-scale war, has challenged Chinese capability and power in a way no other power has done in this century."

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The US and India in a new world

The expanding strategic partnership between the world’s most powerful and most populous democracies — the United States and India — has become

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Delhi Airport is becoming one of the world’s most disorganized and frustrating airports for international travel, with very long lines before immigration and security. Politicians and senior bureaucrats don’t see the nightly scenes of chaos as they use VIP facilities. @JM_Scindia

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Nehru made two mistakes on Jammu and Kashmir that have proved very costly for India. “The first was to declare a ceasefire when our Army was winning. If there had been a ceasefire after three days, PoK would have been a part of India today… The second was to take our internal…

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Sri Lanka has arrested suicide bombers' parents, spouses, siblings and children (if any). In daily shootouts, cops are killing suspected militants. Latest shootout leaves 15 dead, including 6 children. But in Sri Lanka, few will ask for inquiries or label them "staged encounters"

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Taiwan, which instituted COVID-19 preventive measures before any country, said it alerted WHO on Dec. 31 to human-to-human transmission by detailing how Wuhan medical staff were getting ill. But WHO, deferring to China, said on Jan. 14 there was no evidence of such transmission.

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India has more than matched China's Himalayan military buildup and made clear that bilateral ties cannot return to normal until China rolls back its land-grabs. "The state of the border will determine the state of the relationship," India's foreign minister says at the #MSC2022 .

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The third year of the pandemic will begin soon, as Europe and U.S. set new records for daily infections. Yet the truth on the virus's origins remains hidden. China has stymied an independent forensic probe, while U.S. hasn't fully disclosed its role in funding Wuhan lab research.

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Xi hasn't set foot outside China for one year and nine months and will skip even the Rome G-20 summit. Biden sought an in-person bilateral summit with Xi, but Xi has agreed to just an online meeting. Is it the fear of a coup in his absence that is deterring Xi from leaving China?

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On Taiwan National Day, let's remember that this small, vibrant democracy plays an important role in the defense of India, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, etc. because its very existence ties up a sizable portion of China’s armed forces. Taiwan is thus central to Asian security.

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At a time when China has conducted nuclear warfare drills in Tibet while engaged in border aggression, how does the Modi government explain extending support to the Beijing Winter Olympics (dubbed "Genocide Games") and allowing space agency ISRO to tie up commercially with Oppo?

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Biden last March called Putin a "killer" and now threatens to slap personal sanctions on him. But Biden, more respectful of China, hasn't called Xi a killer, despite Xi's notorious Muslim gulag. Nor has Biden uttered a word on China's massing of over 100,000 troops against India.

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Does Modi's statement signal India is willing to live with China's forcible change of the status quo in the Galwan Valley and at Lake Pangong? By occupying unoccupied areas, China has put a halt to India's patrolling of those areas and built positions overlooking Indian defenses.

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Whenever India doesn’t blindly follow the West, the standard Western criticism is that it is “unprepared to step up to major power responsibilities.” But today, a neutral India is being courted by both sides. After Lavrov's India visit, the US will hold a 2+2 meeting with India.

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Japan is the world's third largest funder of UN and its agencies. Nothing better illustrates the WHO's credibility problem than Japanese deputy PM's statement that many people worry that the agency’s acronym may have to change from WHO to “CHO” (“Chinese Health Organization”).

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Facing heat even in Canada for his evidence-free India allegation, Trudeau now resorts to what he has done in the past — plant media stories. Through such media leaks, Ottawa acknowledges that its allegation is based not on any credible evidence gathered by police but on…

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In 1974, India gifted the Kachchateevu Island to Sri Lanka, as Modi pointed out in Parliament recently. But that was not the only case of India's unilateral generosity. In 1953, India gifted the Kabaw Valley — Manipur’s rice bowl — to Burma (now Myanmar). Earlier, before Burma…

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In 2020, Trudeau cheered on farmers blockading highways near New Delhi. But while defending protesters’ rights half a world away, Trudeau declared a national emergency in Canada last year to quash blockades of Canadians peacefully protesting his vaccination policy. The stunning…

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Founded in 1927 to wage global jihad, Tablighi Jamaat spread COVID-19 to six Southeast Asian nations through a mass gathering in Malaysia. Now its unlawful session in New Delhi has spread the disease across India. Why not hold the negligent law enforcement officials to account?

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Before India said a word, Pakistan admitted Indian warplanes struck at Balakot. That India penetrated Pakistani air defenses and bombed a far-off target with impunity sent a chilling message to Pakistan's generals about vulnerability. Extent of damage or death toll is immaterial.

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What explains the fact that it took WHO almost six months to grant Emergency Use Listing (EUL) to the Indian-developed, already-in-use Covaxin vaccine but just six weeks to grant an EUL to the American-developed Novavax (the version manufactured by the Serum Institute of India)?

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How can The New York Times get it so wrong? The U.S. recorded more than 5,000 single-day Covid deaths on at least two separate days in February. Its highest single-day death toll was 5,463 on Feb. 12, 2021, which remains the deadliest day for any country in the current pandemic.

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Team Biden's narrative is that it has managed to globally isolate Russia. But other than in Europe and East Asia, US allies have refused to blindly follow the US lead. Israel and the Gulf oil sheikhdoms have taken a neutral or nuanced stand. UAE like India abstained in UNSC vote.

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Every PM after Indira, @RahulGandhi , has kowtowed to China. The appeasement began with Rajiv Gandhi's 1988 China visit and deepened since the 2003 Tibet cave-in. My articles since 1988 have warned that India will reap the bitter fruits of such appeasement.

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Narendra Modi Is actually Surender Modi

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The killing of two mobsters, says @nytimes , "renews alarm about India’s slide toward extrajudicial violence." Police killings in the US, including in supposed encounters with unarmed motorists, easily rank the highest in the world, averaging more than 1,000 annually in recent…

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After Biden drops out, Macron, at short notice, accepts invitation to be chief guest at India's Jan. 26 Republic Day parade. The long parade, which showcases India's rich, diverse cultural heritage, may have proved much too taxing for the frail Biden in visible cognitive decline.

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When India sought to share intelligence post-2014 with Canada on the terrorism-promoting Sikh separatists operating from Canadian soil, Ottawa refused to take it, saying "intelligence is not evidence," as today's @htTweets reports. That's correct: Intelligence is not evidence but…

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Since the military standoffs with China began 20 months ago, India has tested leading-edge missile systems, including a hypersonic cruise missile, a hybrid missile-torpedo, an anti-radiation missile, and an ICBM. Today it test-fired the new-generation, nuclear-capable Agni Prime.

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There was no India-China border in history, only an India-Tibet border, until Communist China gobbled up Tibet. To deal with the occupier's expanding claim lines in the Himalayas, India must leverage the Tibetan government-in-exile's stance on the border.

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'Ladakh belongs to India': Tibet sides with India, exposes China's expansionist tactics

In a scathing attack on China, the Tibetan exile administration has said that the disputed territories of both Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh have always been a part of India.

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Like bin Laden’s body, the U.S. dumps al-Baghdadi’s body in the sea. Contrast this with India’s practice of allowing public funerals for slain terrorists. This turns terrorists’ burial sites into jihadist shrines, making dead terrorists more potent than terrorists that are alive.

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Blinken opened a joint press conference by taking a swipe at India in a prepared statement, alleging "a rise in human rights abuses by some government, police and prison officials." But when India's defense and foreign ministers spoke, they pretended they hadn't heard the attack.

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A comment on the Canada-based Khalistan movement in @nationalpost , a Canadian newspaper.

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Reuters: “India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by Oct. 10.” Canada has more than twice as many diplomats in India as India has in Canada. After Trudeau’s evidence-free allegations, India wants parity in diplomatic staff strength.

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Nijjar "met regularly with Canadian intelligence officers," with such meetings taking place “once or twice a week" in the months before the murder, according to his son. These were regular meetings, not a meeting to warn him that his life could be at…

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Hardeep Nijjar met CSIS every week before killing that Trudeau links to India: son

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Exactly three years ago, India killed a leading terrorist (Burhan Wani), only to squander the gain by allowing a public funeral that helped to memorialize him as a martyr, besides triggering major riots. India doesn't learn: It still permits public funerals for slain terrorists!

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Modi rakes up the issue why Kartarpur is in Pakistan, not India. At Tashkent and Simla, India could have traded the return of captured territories for Kartarpur—and more. India is the only country to surrender, without any quid pro quo, territorial gains from not one but two wars

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BENDING OVER BACKWARDS: Biden tells Xi "US does not seek a new Cold War with China; does not aim to change China’s system; the revitalization of its alliances is not targeted at China; US does not support 'Taiwan independence'; and has no intention to seek a conflict with China."

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To compel Russia to default on its sovereign debt, the U.S. blocks Moscow from using its dollars held in American banks. Such a coercive step, by violating U.S.'s international obligations, could serve as a wake-up call for the non-Western world about the dollar-associated risks.

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Biden has still no ambassador in New Delhi. But his envoy to Pakistan visits Pakistani-held Kashmir, calling it not “Pakistan-administered Kashmir,” as the UN labels it, but by its Pakistani name, “Azad [Liberated] Kashmir,” though it is racked by a growing independence movement.

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Some of the biggest American corporations — from Coca-Cola to Visa — are underwriting Xi's Olympic Games. These top sponsors of the Games are very vocal on political and human rights issues in the U.S., but are silent on Xi's Muslim gulag or his repression in Tibet and Hong Kong.

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Zoom claims it offers end-to-end encryption. But a probe finds that Zoom meetings are potentially compromised when keys for encrypting and decrypting are transmitted to servers in China: . The last thing the Indian defense minister should be doing is this!

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A serial hypocrite: Shedding tears over the killing of a dreaded Sikh terrorist, Trudeau cites the importance of a "rules-based order." But just a year ago or so, Trudeau celebrated the US assassination of a 71-year-old retired terrorist living with his grandchildren in Kabul.

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China has faced no international censure for demolishing a 99-foot Buddha statue in Sichuan (reportedly to "teach Tibetans a lesson") or for spiriting away from Hong Kong University the “Pillar of Shame,” a 13-foot bronze sculpture commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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Is Xi, with more than a million rotting in his concentration camps and with his expansionism ranging from Hong Kong to the Himalayas, the new Hitler? His aggressive quest for Chinese dominance is destabilizing international security. Who will stop him?

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You wouldn't know this by reading the US press. In recent days, @washingtonpost reported "the tide of war is clearly shifting against the aggressor," while @Forbes proclaimed Russia is "losing the war." Other media outlets have said it is running out of options to avoid defeat.

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Brahma Chellaney

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It's an admitted fact that Wuhan Institute of Virology, with US funding, worked on manipulating coronaviruses. Now The Australian daily claims US has obtained a 2015 document written by PLA scientists that discussed weaponizing a coronavirus. So why is China still being shielded?

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Brahma Chellaney

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Zelensky is an autocrat in the style of Putin, Erdoğan and Orbán. In the latest in a string of despotic actions to concentrate power in his hands, Zelensky bans 11 political parties. But he's a Biden administration puppet, so all is forgiven, even if heads an autocratic regime.

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Brahma Chellaney

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India’s 'Chinese New Year' gift to CCP: The decision to vacate the Kailash Range's dominating heights will go down in history as a major Indian strategic folly that India will later deeply regret. It's the equivalent of India's return of Haji Pir that still haunts Indian security

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Brahma Chellaney

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"China blocks UNSC discussion on the pandemic." If India had unleashed this pandemic through missteps, China would have been in the lead to hold a Security Council discussion and to punish India with UN sanctions. But today it seeks India's help to ward off international censure.

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Brahma Chellaney

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Cremation is a very private affair in India. Showing graphic images of bodies burning on pyres represented a horrible invasion of privacy. Intrusive, voyeuristic and ratings-driven media coverage amounts to exploiting human suffering. Good journalism must rise above shock value.

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Brahma Chellaney

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India's vaccine drive is now running into vaccine shortages. But 184 million Indians (equivalent to the combined UK, France & Italy populations) have already got one or two doses. And, unlike Biden's vaccine hoarding, India exported or donated 66.4 million doses to other nations.

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Brahma Chellaney

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"McDonald’s, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Starbucks to pause selling products in Russia." This may be the only good news for Russians in recent days, letting them say goodbye to junk food, sugary beverages and coffee with carcinogenic acrylamide and switch to healthier diets.

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Brahma Chellaney

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India's bitterly polarized politics hasn't spared military's long-overdue reform. By opposing the shift from colonial-style (including caste-based) troop recruitments to all-India, all-class recruitments, with women now eligible, the usual Modi critics have embraced illiberalism.

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Brahma Chellaney

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India's mushrooming NGOs numbered over 3.1 million in 2015. As of 2020, only about 22,400 of them were registered under FCRA for receiving foreign funds. However, a number of the FCRA-registered NGOs have served as a conduit for the flow of foreign funds to the unapproved NGOs.

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Brahma Chellaney

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China is showing India daily how it uses a range of deceptions to try and outfox its opponent. Just after agreeing to disengage forces with India, China has opened two new fronts and intruded into more Indian territory. When will India learn that appeasement invites aggression?

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Brahma Chellaney

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After its encroachments of April 2020, China has skillfully used negotiations to compel India to accept realignment of the Ladakh frontier: With every new buffer zone it foists, India not only loses access to the areas it patrolled, but also is compelled to retreat further back.

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Brahma Chellaney

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Why does India get a bad international press? Largely because it doesn't understand that timely rebuttal of misreporting is critical. It took 2 days to react to NYT's wild exaggeration of toll. Unlike foreign ministries elsewhere, MEA shies away from setting the record straight.

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Brahma Chellaney

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A second judgment from India's Supreme Court amid Chinese border aggression has finally cleared the long-delayed widening of a strategic highway that leads to the heavily militarized frontier with Tibet. This is a sobering case study of how India's democracy remains weighed down.

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Brahma Chellaney

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Why is the world going crazy? It began with Russia's war. Then Germany decided to remilitarize. Now Abe suggests Japan consider hosting U.S. nuclear weapons by abandoning its "three non-nuclear principles"—not possessing or manufacturing nukes or permitting them on its territory.

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Brahma Chellaney

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China has no equal: FBI Director says China has expanded its spying in the US to such an extent that FBI is launching one new counterintelligence investigation on average every 12 hours. Also, the "scale of their hacking program ... is greater than every other country combined."

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Brahma Chellaney

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The Indian Army chief sends a clear message that if China wishes to end the 43-month border military standoff with India, it must restore status quo ante (that is, withdraw from the areas it stealthily encroached upon in Indian Ladakh). General Manoj Pande said “our first aim to…

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Brahma Chellaney

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Catch them young, watch them grow: The just-unveiled Indian plan to recruit young soldiers between the ages of 17½ and 21 for four-year active duty will not only swell the ranks of India's all-volunteer armed forces but also contribute to combat effectiveness and social cohesion.

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