Rahul

🇺🇸🇮🇳 "welcomed adding ‘Planetary Defence’ as a topic under the India-U.S. Civil Space Joint Working Group led by NASA and ISRO"

Recently #China’s aircraft carrier Shandong ran exercises in the West Pacific east of Taiwan & Philippines, here's a basic plot showing its route along with previous PLA carrier exercise undertaken in Dec 2022/April 2023

Indian Soft Power at its best.

As always, first to answer the call for help in the region 🙌

The strategic depth is working the other way around. TTP has found strategic depth in Pakistan.

The strategic depth isn't working.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe tears into the US, Canada over difference in the approach taken by these nations towards Sri Lanka and Gaza on UN Resolutions; says,'Canada has become the henchman for moving these resolutions'

Along with #IMEC, the #G20 Summit saw the #EU announce its plans for a “Trans-#African Corridor,” a transportation network linking #Angola, #Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the #Congo, writes @raji143 or-f.org/129620

According to media reports, between 2019 & 2023, there have been 48 Chinese scientific research vessels that have docked in the #IndianOcean region, with deployment mostly around the area of the #BayofBengal & the #ArabianSea toward Persian Gulf: @raji143 or-f.org/130058

Under this 2015 agreement, convicted individuals can be repatriated to serve out the sentence at home. Sentence of IN Veterans must be commuted or pardon obtained & this agreement invoked. gulf-times.com/story/457893/q…

I currently have family over from India, on a visit. Educated, well off. Totally unaware of current affairs; claim they never bother with news, neither TV nor magazines. But that doesn't mean they have no opinion on issues that matter. So for instance, they assert that:

Essay by @eosnos on the current state of China, and the mood among the people. A very readable account of Xi Jinping’s 10 year rule and it’s impact on people’s lives. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

My latest: Tension is rising again in the South China Sea following two collisions Sunday between vessels from the Philippines and #China near the Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed reef situated within Manila’s exclusive economic zone. voanews.com/a/analysts-chi…

Pentagon report on China's military: PLA is readying all branches, arms and services. China already has the world’s largest navy with over 370 ships/subs, incl over 140 major surface combatants. In 2022, the PLAN launched its third aircraft carrier, CV-18 Fujian,” said the US report. ajaishukla.com/2023/10/us-pen…

HAL in the spotlight after IAF announced plans to buy more fighter jets, LCH, & to upgrade its Su-30s. HAL chief CB Ananthakrishnan outlined how the firm is ramping up capacities, preparing to execute big orders, & pushing indigenisation along the way. hindustantimes.com/india-news/ht-…

BRI is the best thing that has happened to India in a long time. It has spectacularly failed to fulfill Chinese objectives in Pakistan while simultaneously managing to drag down and drown the Pak economy in debt:)

1930s :: Frontier of India Border of India and Afghanistan

First Gaganyaan Mission 🔥🇮🇳 Indian Navy has successfully recovered the #ISRO Gaganyaan Crew Capsule from Bay of Bengal after the Successfull test of In-flight Crew abort test under #GaganyaanMission One of big step towards sending & bringing Indian Astronaut from Space

Surprised no one made a movie about this. Jan 1, 2020 Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei tweets to Pres. Trump: "You can't do anything." Jan 2, 2020 White House tweets: "the US military has taken decisive defensive action...killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the [IRGC]."

China's Shandong aircraft carrier spotted operating in the South China Sea on October 21.