External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said India discussed its border standoff issue with China in Quad foreign ministers' meeting, even as Beijing called Quad 'tool to contain' it.
Quad foreign ministers met in Melbourne Friday and called for end to violence and return to democracy in Myanmar. It asserted maritime rules-based order in South & East China Seas.
Terming Quad as a 'deliberate move' to stoke confrontation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said 'relevant countries' should abandon the 'outdated Cold War mentality'.
Speaking at the meet, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he doesn't consider a conflict in Indo-Pacific inevitable but China has been acting more aggressively.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is touring Sri Lanka that faces an economic crisis and Maldives badly in Beijing's debt. But there’s enough wiggle space for India.
India continues to harbour the illusion that more partners are better than deeper partnerships. This makes creating a regional balance against China more difficult.
In exclusive interview, Australian High Commissioner Barry O’Farrell says Canberra is hopeful of interim trade pact by 2021 end, understands agriculture is a 'politically sensitive' subject.
At Global Technology Summit 2021, organised by MEA & Carnegie India, panelists from India, Australia, US & Japan discuss the subject ‘Beyond Borders: Science & Technology Cooperation’.
The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
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