Courtesy: Gateway House

2 August 2018

Version 2: Mapping China’s global telecom empire

This version of the Gateway House Map on China’s Expanding Global Telecom Empire identifies some more telecommunication assets -- optic-fibre and satellite ground stations -- that Beijing is working on in South and Central America, Africa, Myanmar, the Indian Ocean Region and mainland China besides the existing ones, such as the Pakistan East Africa Cable Express (PEACE). It shows the direction China’s investment is taking, its diplomatic overtures and the larger geopolitical implications of its growing telecom empire

Courtesy: Kremlin website

19 July 2018

Restating the case for BRICS

BY Rajiv Bhatia

The annual diplomatic exercise next week takes place amid a complex global political scenario. The western alliance is deeply divided, Brexit is near and equations among the great powers are in a constant state of flux. BRICS may now do well to focus more on internal cooperation than global change

Courtesy: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

19 July 2018

U.S. Space Force: reconfiguring military for space

BY Chaitanya Giri

Washington is planning to integrate its military space operations. Each arm of the United States Armed Forces has had a space command until now but uniting these discrete units into a new Space Force is a step ahead. The U.S.’ big-picture ambition is ‘full spectrum battle-space dominance’ and the contest to achieve it has implications for the defence and space industry

Courtesy: IIM, Indore

12 July 2018

India in a changing global order

BY Neelam Deo

The world order that came about in the aftermath of World War II was a western-oriented construct that has become obsolete in many ways. The changes underway offer India an opportunity to participate in the crafting of political and economic institutions that are more pertinent to the emerging geopolitical equations

Courtesy: IIM, Indore

12 July 2018

India in a changing global order

BY Neelam Deo

This speech was delivered at ‘Industry Meet 2018’, organised by the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, on 7 July 2018

Courtesy: Caixin Global

5 July 2018

China’s disquieting FDI in high-tech

BY Neelam Deo

China’s foreign direct investment is shifting away from natural resources to high-tech areas, such as Artificial Intelligence and robotics. The scale of these acquisitions, along with questions about intellectual property and national security, are causing widespread concern in the West

Courtesy: Wikimedia

14 June 2018

Trump-Kim summit is a realistic trade-off

BY Neelam Deo

The June 12 summit was characterised by give-and-take as opposed to the one-way approach practised by earlier U.S. administrations. All countries welcomed the agreement and there is hope that this realism will enable the United States to address other contentious issues too

Courtesy: U.S. Department of State/ Flickr

24 May 2018

How Iranians see Trump’s hit to the Iran Deal

BY Kourosh Ziabari

Scrapping the JCPOA will badly bruise Iran’s economy, citizens and foreign relations; it will have an impact on the U.S.’ allies too

Courtesy: Gateway House

10 May 2018

Trump’s Iran sanctions hit India

BY Amit Bhandari

India may end up being the unintended victim of renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran. It will push up the price of oil and cost India billions of dollars annually

Courtesy: Government of South Africa/ Flickr

25 January 2018

South Africa leads BRICS, IORA in 2018

BY Rajiv Bhatia

Internal political constraints dog it currently, but if overcome, South Africa can be a good chairman to BRICS and IORA in 2018. It also has a tough balancing act to perform between two great Asian powers, China and India