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Abhijit Bhattacharyya
About the AuthorAbhijit Bhattacharyya
The writer is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. The views expressed here are personal.
    Even though India has scrapped the earlier multi-billion contract for 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) programme and decided to go in for only 36 Rafales, the government will select at least one more aircraft besides Tejas to be built in India. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    The perils of fighter price fixing

    Huge delays and the resulting rising costs have marred the modernisation programme and timely replenishment of inventory...

    21 March 2018 12:32 AM IST

    India China flagOpinion
    Tortuous talks in turbulent times

    China has been continuously trying to show India in poor light in front of its South Asian neighbours.

    7 March 2018 6:57 AM IST

    Aircraft, military or civil, are a high-tech, high-margin profitable business, specially for its makers and sellers.Opinion
    The price of aircraft & the price of power

    The non-manufacturing users and importers are always at the receiving end, except during the times when there is glut in...

    23 Feb 2018 7:07 AM IST

    Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Maldives: India's new front with China

    India was one of the first to recognise the Maldives as an independent country and also the first to open its diplomatic...

    14 Feb 2018 12:29 AM IST

    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held the first China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers Dialogue in Beijing with his Afghanistan and Pakistan counterparts Salahuddin Rabbani and Khawaja Muhammad Asif respectively. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Han-style diplomacy: What China says, and what it may really mean

    From security to expansion, France sought a guarantee from both current contracting and past confronting parties.

    8 Feb 2018 1:05 AM IST

    According to the Indian commerce ministry, the trade deficit with China last year mounted to over $52 billion when the bilateral trade stood at $70 billion.Opinion
    The great Chinese (fire)wall: What India needs to do now

    Not only was indigenous industry ruined but from being a producer, India became a net consumer.

    1 Feb 2018 1:02 AM IST

    The Indian Army had last month made its first-ever military intervention of sorts on behalf of Bhutan by physically blocking Chinese troops from constructing a road in the Bhutanese Doklam area border territory near Indian border defences. (Representational image) .Opinion
    Behind China's push: Land, water, fuel issues

    Doklam and the Sino-Indian frontier are irritants and eyesores to Chinese leaders.

    23 Jan 2018 12:34 AM IST

    The Indian Army targeted the Hajira sector of PoK where 6 villages came under attack. (Photo: PTI/Representational)Opinion
    Wars in India: Looking back at history

    The Mahabharat was a civil war and no Indian really celebrates it. The Ramayan, on other hand, was a war.

    15 Jan 2018 1:54 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: AP)Opinion
    China threat: Trap, penetrate, destroy

    Things are vastly different today, thanks to the ongoing multilateral trade negotiations and bilateral proposals.

    11 Jan 2018 12:41 AM IST

    Chinese President Xi JinpingOpinion
    Watch out for Land of Morning Warning'

    Be ready to acknowledge China as the indisputable “Land of Morning Warningâ€.

    5 Jan 2018 3:21 AM IST

    China said CPEC is an important part of Chinas One-Belt and One-Road (OBOR) also known as new Silk Road project. (Photo: Representational Image)Opinion
    What's behind Moscow's new advisory to New Delhi over Beijing's OBOR?

    The South China Sea is not Chinese, there are several claimant littoral maritime states.

    22 Dec 2017 1:18 AM IST

    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gestures during a joint news conference with Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano following their bilateral meeting in suburban Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Wang's thoughts': Beijing has clearly, brazenly spelt out its overseas...

    Clearly, China is less interested in overseas development and more interested in pursuing its overseas interests .

    15 Dec 2017 12:45 AM IST

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