India Rising

India Rising: Strategic Affairs Conversations with Mohal and Kishor

@mohaljoshi

@veggiediplomat

This week Chinese President Xi Jinping visited South Indian city of Chennai for an informal summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This was the second edition of the informal summits that China and India are having, with the first one happening in 2018 in China in the city of Wuhan – hence, gaining the name ‘Wuhan Spirit’.

We try to find the answers to the following questions about ''Chennai Connect':

● Did Modi and Xi manage to revive the now-dead now-alive Wuhan Spirit?

● Has New Delhi managed to drive home the point about it’s redlines to Beijing?

● Does India and China have enough modalities to work on improving their ties in the next 12 months?

● Is it too early to claim that Chennai Connect was a huge success without talking about tangible benefits?

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This week US President Donald Trump announced through Twitter that peace talks with Taliban were off and that he was still thinking about a troop drawdown from Afghanistan.

So we find an answer to these questions:

• Is the US Taliban deal really dead?

• Did US President Trump actually plan to invite Taliban terrorists to Camp David, the official retreat of the President of the United States?

• Is the Afghan government happy that the deal is now more or less cancelled?

• Will the US government continue to send feelers to the Taliban?

• What will the Taliban’s reaction to all this be?

• More importantly, should India be happy with the developments?

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Indian Defence Minister Sri Rajnath Singh issued a statement about how India might reconsider it’s self-imposed No-First Use policy depending on circumstances in the future.

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The Indian Parliament this week abrogated article 370 which gave the state of Jammu and Kashmir a special status. The state was further bifurcated into 2 Union Territories - Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

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Sri Lanka was hit by a series of bomb blasts on Easter Sunday targeting hotels and churches. A lesser known radical group National Tawheed Jamaath (NTJ) has claimed responsibility of the bombings which killed 253 people.

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In today's episode we are joined by Ramaharitha Pusarla, columnist and author to review the 5 years of Modi's Foreign Policy.

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India & the rest of the world were taken by surprise by the sudden announcement by PM Narendra Modi on live television that on March 27th India had conducted an ASAT test. With this India became just the 4th nation in the world (after US, Russia & China) to have conducted such a test.

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India Rising: Strategic Affairs Conversations with Mohal and Kishor

@mohaljoshi

@veggiediplomat

In today's episode, we talk about the achievements of Manohar Parrikar, who recently passed away, as Defense Minister.

We also talk about Indian media's reaction over failed UNSC resolution on Masood Azhar.

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India Rising: Strategic Affairs Conversations with Mohal and Kishor @mohaljoshi

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In today's episode, we talk about India's strike on Balakot in response to Pulwama Terror Attack and how the government termed it as a non-military preemptive strike. We also talk about Pakistan's reaction in terms of violation of Indian airspace, subsequent dogfight between Indian and Pakistani jets over the Line of Control. We also talk about the capture of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman and his subsequent release.

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India Rising: Strategic Affairs Conversations with Mohal and Kishor @mohaljoshi

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In today’s episode, we talk about the Pulwama Terror Attack on 14th of February. A convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel on the Jammu Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethpora (near Awantipora) in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The attack resulted in the death of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel – which is a paramilitary force - and the attacker. The responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Pakistan based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed. A local youth named Adil Ahmed Dar was identified as the attacker.

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