“China needs natural resources and Angola needs development.” (1) The words of President dos Santos, Angola’s dictator, perfectly describe the Sino-Angolan economic relationship. China’s economic involvement in Angola is multifaceted. Loans, trade agreements, and investment ventures are all being used in an effort to secure more oil concessions, and the vehicle of choice has been her numerous state-owned […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKYkTWj1RZI&feature=youtu.be Take a rare, never before seen look inside India’s Para-troopers.
The street outside is patrolled by riot police officers in camouflage, bracing for the nightly spasm of violence, but it is quiet here inside the operating room. The surgeon’s knife slides into an eyeball as if it were a soft fruit. The patient’s eyelids have been stretched back with a metal clamp, so his eyeball […]
In January 2016, when Taliban leader Mullah Omer Mansour vowed “not [to] kill the soldier in cantonment, the lawyer in the court, and the politician in the senate and parliament,” but instead in schools, colleges, and universities which in his view, prepare them for these roles, no one believed the Taliban would keep their word. The August […]
Important but overlooked news this week: the U.S. command in Afghanistan has asked India to step up military aid to Afghan forces. India provided four attack helicopters to the Afghan military in Dec. 2015; the U.S. and the Afghans want more, as well as spare parts for Russian-made military equipment, to be used in part against the Islamist network built up […]
NEW DELHI — In a recent speech in New Delhi, the outspoken commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., was nearly poetic when he discussed the growing relationship between India and the United States, saying he was a “bit moonstruck” about the possibilities. “In the not too distant future, American and […]
India has a firepower problem. The otherwise-formidable navy of the world’s second-largest country (by population) is stuck waiting at least five years to outfit its newest submarines with torpedoes, NDTV’s sources estimate, because of a procurement scandal. The Scorpène-class subs were supposed to be part of India’s defenses in the tense southeast Asian theater, where the Chinese navy is dominant. Instead, […]
A “pink flamingo” is a term recently coined by Frank Hoffman to describe predictable but ignored events that can yield disastrous results. Hoffman argues that these situations are fully visible, but almost entirely ignored by policymakers. Pink flamingos stand in stark contrast to “black swans“—the unpredictable, even unforeseeable shocks whose outcomes may be entirely unknown. […]
A U.N. court has ruled that India must allow an Italian marine detained in Delhi for more than four years to go home, Italy’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday. India acknowledged the ruling but said Salvatore Girone would remain under the authority of its Supreme Court which might impose various conditions on his release. Girone […]
Al Jazeera has obtained a copy of the secret personal diaries of Abu Zubaydah, one of the highest-profile prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. The six notebooks, which were obtained from a former U.S. government intelligence official who worked with the CIA and FBI on Al-Qaeda’s rise to power, were discovered at a safe house in Pakistan where Abu […]
Police say a university professor in northwestern Bangladesh has been hacked to death on his way to work in an attack similar to other killings by suspected Muslim militants. Police say A.F.M. Rezaul Karim Siddique was attacked Saturday on his way to the state-run university in Rajshahi city, where he taught English. Deputy police commissioner […]
India and the United States have been militarily courting for the past two years, following a prolonged freeze in defense diplomacy and U.S. sanctions after India’s nuclear-weapons testing in 1998 . U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has recently returned from a three-day visit to India, his second trip this year. Mr. Carter discussed logistical requirements for […]
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