New Delhi: India Thursday successfully demonstrated its 5,000-km Agni-V ballistic missile, touted as its key nuclear deterrent against China since it can hit targets such as Beijing and Shanghai. India’s nuclear arsenal also include several other missile that are nuclear capable. Here is a look at some of them: * Agni-I is a 700-km surface-to-surface [...]
Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Launching itself into an elite club of nations with the capability of hitting targets 5,000 km away, India Thursday successfully tested a long-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile that can reach Beijing and Shanghai in China, and all of Pakistan. With its launch from Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast at 8.07 a.m., [...]
Beijing: In their maiden strategic economic dialogue held against the backdrop of their growing trade imbalance, India and China Monday agreed to deepen bilateral investments, further open up markets and share developmental experiences. In an important step, the two sides decided to enhance cooperation in infrastructure, specially in the railway sector, as India sought [...]
London: Beijing does not treat Islamabad as its equal, rued a Pakistani professor who noted that China has changed its Kashmir policy and now supports a negotiated settlement between India and Pakistan. Athar Hussain, a Pakistani professor at the London School Economics, said: “China does not treat Pakistan as an equal. China is a [...]
Beijing: Dismissing the recent Pentagon report that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has deployed nuclear capable missiles against India as “unfounded” and “contrary to facts”, China on Wednesday said the claims were made with “ulterior motives”. “Such comments are unfounded. Both China and India have always been committed to developing strategic cooperative partnership [...]
by John Lee In a recent security conference in Washington, a Chinese delegate caused an awkward silence among the congenial group at a post-event drinks session when he stated that India was “an undisciplined country where the plague and leprosy still exist. How a big, dirty country like that can rise so quickly amazed us”. [...]
The world’s biggest rich and emerging powers escalated a war of words over trade and currencies on Thursday, as leaders opened a G20 summit struggling to iron out distortions that threaten global growth. The United States, striving to recover from its worst economic crisis in decades, locked horns anew with exporting giants China and Germany [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is heading for Asia and the Pacific to cement ties with some of Beijing’s nervous neighbors, part of the Obama administration’s efforts to counter China’s increasingly assertive stance in its backyard. Clinton leaves on Wednesday on a two-week, seven-nation tour designed in part to allay regional concerns that as [...]
India is watching with concern the recent attempt by China to treat Kashmir as a tripartite issue, marking a change in its long-stated position of viewing it as a bilateral matter between India and Pakistan. China’s approach on Kashmir, especially issuance of stapled-visas for Kashmiris, is a concern as it is viewed here as an [...]
