US Navy conveyed to China that it exercises the right to freedom of navigation through EEZ of coalition partners like India & South China Sea isn’t an exception.
In episode 721 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta unpacks the issues of international relations through the sea laws after the US ship sailed through Indian EEZ without intimation.
This year, Jawan and The Kerala Story both won National Awards. The irony was impossible to miss. One critiqued the system, the other endorsed its narratives. The dichotomy says more about India’s cultural schizophrenia than any film review ever could.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
The US is nota signatory to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) anyway. It is occupying the island of Diego Garcia belonging to Mauritius in the Indian ocean in blatant violation of UNCLOS and the ruling of the International Court of Justice in Hague. Why, Even India has objected to this illegal occupation by the US! The UN’s official maps have been changed to show the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, as belonging to Mauritius! But the US wouldn’t let go of its illegal occupation of Diego Garcia!
But isn’t USA creating trust deficit with India? Already full trust is not restored in case of India’s relations with USA. By this action USA is heaping upon existing trust deficit sending a message that it cannot be depended upon. Shall USA has to prove anything to China by needling a friendly country which may appear to be an intention to appease or placate China.
The US is nota signatory to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) anyway. It is occupying the island of Diego Garcia belonging to Mauritius in the Indian ocean in blatant violation of UNCLOS and the ruling of the International Court of Justice in Hague. Why, Even India has objected to this illegal occupation by the US! The UN’s official maps have been changed to show the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, as belonging to Mauritius! But the US wouldn’t let go of its illegal occupation of Diego Garcia!
But isn’t USA creating trust deficit with India? Already full trust is not restored in case of India’s relations with USA. By this action USA is heaping upon existing trust deficit sending a message that it cannot be depended upon. Shall USA has to prove anything to China by needling a friendly country which may appear to be an intention to appease or placate China.