China rejected Japan’s concerns and accused Philippines of distorting facts and making a big fuss over incidents near Okinotori and Second Thomas Shoal.
“We’re working towards sometime early next year to have the president come,” US Secretary of State says, adding he is expected to visit India later this year to prepare for the visit
Chinese commentators saw Marco Rubio’s India visit as more than diplomacy — linking it to Quad revival, Indo-Pacific strategy, US-China rivalry and India’s balancing role.
The foreign ministers also announced new partnership focused on Pacific infrastructure, beginning with a pilot port project in Fiji under the Quad Ports of the Future Partnership.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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