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India’s Strategic Gains At BRICS 2024: Navigating Multipolarity And Global Leadership – Analysis

India’s strategic diplomacy at this summit was a testament to its growing influence in the shifting global order, where emerging economies are vying for a more prominent role in global governance. India deftly balanced its national interests while promoting multilateralism, a feat that underscored its vision of an inclusive and multipolar world.India has long advocated for a multipolar world,

Is China peeved – or pleased – by North Korean troops in Ukraine?

China remains officially agnostic about North Korea’s deployment of troops to help Russia’s war in Ukraine – a dispatch that analysts say holds potential trouble for Pyongyang’s main backer Beijing even as both communist nations share the goal of supporting Vladimir Putin. On Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian repeated the line Beijing has used in the face of increasingly

"Midtens rike - En vandring i Kinas historie" er i salg - revidert og utvidet, og i ny drakt

For femten år siden utga jeg boken "Midtens rike  - En vandring i Kinas historie" (Cappelen Damm, 2009). Senere er den trykket og utgitt i flere runder, og den også oversatt til fremmede språk. Høstens utgivelse er revidert og utvidet, og nå finner du den i bokhandlene. Bokens forside viser en av Kinas store keisere, Qianlong, til hest. Qianlong styrte landet i en lang periode på 1700-tallet

Vietnam builds airstrip on reclaimed island in South China Sea

The latest satellite imagery has revealed a new airstrip taking shape on Barque Canada reef, an artificial island developed by Vietnam in the disputed Spratly archipelago in the South China Sea.Images provided by Earth imaging company Planet Labs and analyzed by Radio Free Asia show a partial runway of about 1,050 meters (3,445 feet) in length in the middle of the reef. Barque Canada reef is one

India and China have struck a deal that could ease border tensions ahead of expected leader meeting

India and China have reached an agreement on military disengagement along their disputed border, New Delhi said, a step toward reducing frictions between the nuclear-armed neighbors that comes ahead of an expected meeting between the countries’ leaders on the sidelines of a summit in Russia.India’s foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Monday said the agreement on military patrolling in

Chinese blockade would be act of war, Taiwan says Story by Reuters

A real Chinese blockade of Taiwan would be an act of war and have far-reaching consequences for international trade, Defense Minister Wellington Koo said on Wednesday after last week’s drills by China that practiced such a scenario. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has over the past five years staged almost daily military activities around the island,

North Korean troops spotted in Russian border region with Ukraine, says Kyiv

A group of North Korean soldiers have been spotted in Russia’s Kursk region, an area that borders Ukraine and has seen ongoing military operations, Ukraine’s military intelligence service announced Thursday.In a post on its official Telegram account, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine said some North Korean troops, who had received training in Russia’s far east, have made their way to the

Are North Koreans fighting in Ukraine? Here’s what we know

There is growing intelligence that North Korea has been readying itself for a more direct role in Russia’s war in Ukraine, a move that could reverberate far beyond the frontlines of the war raging in Europe. The United States, Ukraine and South Korea say that North Korean troops were dispatched to Russia for training with the aim of being deployed to Ukraine.Russia and North Korea have dismissed

Här är namnen på Kinas nätverk av agenter i Sverige, del 1

Jojje Olsson, redaktør av det svenske nettstedet Kinamedia, skriver: "Kalla fakta i TV4 avslöjade förra veckan ett nätverk av 17 kinesiska agenter i Sverige, men namngav endast en av dem. Avslöjandet kommer efter att flera medier och organisationer tillsammans arbetat med en lista som sommaren 2021 läckte ut på ett forum för hackare.Kinamedia har sedan dess fått tag på listan, och anser att

China’s Nuclear Submarine Bases: A Stocktaking – Analysis

China’s nuclear submarine building programme is running on overdrive.[1] If China maintains its current pace of construction of 4.5 to six nuclear submarines per year for the next couple of decades, the number of nuclear boats in the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) inventory is set to swell substantially.Nuclear submarines are amongst the most complex and maintenance-heavy platforms ever