Harsh V Pant

Harsh V Pant India and China continue to be at loggerheads on a range of bilateral issues as China shows no signs of budging on key concerns that matter to India. Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar visited Beijing recently for the…
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Harsh V Pant Russia is warming up to Pakistan and it's real. There seems to be a reversal in Russia's South Asia policy with New Delhi and Moscow drifting apart. Russia is looking at the region through the prism of its larger geopolitical…
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Harsh V Pant Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh is a sign of an important course correction in Delhi-Dhaka ties. For years now, India's relations with Bangladesh have been suffering as New Delhi failed to capitalise on the…
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 Harsh V Pant After much deliberation and soul searching, the European Union (EU) has approved a preliminary plan for a naval mission to stem the influx of migrants trying to reach Europe through human trafficking and smuggling operations…
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Harsh V Pant Promising to lead a government for "one nation" and make "Great Britain greater" as he returned to 10 Downing Street as prime minister, David Cameron proved the British pollsters and political pundits wrong. For all the talk…
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Harsh V Pant Welcoming Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in India this week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined that "the relationship between India and Afghanistan is not just between two countries or governments. It is a timeless…
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 Harsh V Pant India-Russia relationship is a unique one in the Indian foreign policy matrix that just refuses to become a marginal one and was only slightly affected by the unprecedented structural changes ushered in by the end of the Cold…
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Harsh V Pant In early September, two Chinese naval ships docked in the Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) in which China has invested $500 million, indicating the possibility of China using its commercial infrastructure…
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Harsh V Pant The US has increased its air assault on Islamic State (IS) militants, a radical al-Qaeda offshoot that has captured parts of Syria and Iraq, slowing their advance on the predominantly Kurdish Syrian town of Kobani (Ayn…
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Harsh V Pant Expressing his deep concern about the people of Kobane, the US Secretary of State John Kerry has suggested that "horrific as it is to watch the violence, it is important to keep in mind the US strategic objective" - which, he…
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