By N. C. Bipindra for IANS New Delhi: As technological advancements become increasingly pervasive in all aspects of life, concerns regarding the ethics of new-age digital ecosystems gain acute significance. On the one hand, the deployment of data-driven technologies into governance has led to path-breaking advantages in terms […]
By N. C. Bipindra Chinese Checkers, a popular strategy board game, has much in common with the situation in the South China Sea (SCS), arguably the most disputed maritime region in the world. Chinese checkers originated in Germany and gained its present name as part of a rebranding […]
New Delhi: Communist China has bought support for itself among the academia, think-tanks, media, trade bodies, tech companies, filmdom, and political parties in India to influence public opinion and destabilise the nation from within, strategic affairs experts have said. They were speaking at an online discussion following the […]
New Delhi: Communist Party of China’s Xi Jinping is a major threat to global peace and the world needs to follow India in fighting his expansionism, an exiled Chinese student leader who had led the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has said. Zhou Fengsuo, the president of Humanitarian China, […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: In order to counter China’s influence in the strategic Indian Ocean Region, India today announced a slew of projects in Maldives to deepen its relations with the maritime neighbour. The relationship was not cosy till two years ago. Former Maldives President Abdullah Yameen […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the author’s. For the writer’s other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Rajiv Prakash Saxena With one stroke of a pen and $400 billion as long-term investment in Iran, China‘s military deal with Tehran under […]