Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The Indian government has sent an official diplomatic note to the U.S. embassy demanding that the U.S. shut down all social clubs and all commercial activities including tax-free alcohol inside its large embassy compound in New Delhi by Jan. 16. This is apparently in retaliation against the arrest […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI — Within India’s long borders, as many as 65 million people are slaves. That’s according to the U.S. State Department’s annual “Trafficking in Persons” report, which classifies India as having more slaves than any other country on earth. “The forced labor of an estimated 20 to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com DARJEELING, India — You know the planet is truly a global village when you turn on the TV in a cheapie room on the lower slopes of the Himalayas early one morning and find ESPN carrying the Red Sox-Cardinals live in the World Series. OK, you could do […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com MUMBAI — Indians have a great word for the plethora of petty bureaucrats who run all the ministries and agencies that make life difficult if not miserable for millions of people. The word is “babu,” which can be a term of respect for an elder but now is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Indian media and military forums are abuzz about various reports that the Pentagon is considering building a military base in India, with the ostensible purpose of checking China’s growing military threat in the region. The Calcutta-based newspaper The Telegraph reported on Aug. 21 that a U.S. Air Force […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Last week’s disastrous submarine explosion in India which killed 18 Indian sailors was caused by Russian-made Klub missiles inside the vessel, according to the Indian newspaper Mumbai Mirror, citing sources from the Indian Navy. The explosion and sinking of the Russian-made diesel-electric submarine INS Sindhurakshat occurred right after […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com An Indian Navy source has confirmed that the Indian government will launch its first ever indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier on Aug. 12. If so, India would be the fifth country able to build its own carrier, after the United States, Russia, Great Britain and France. The […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI — A bloody ambush on the Indian side of the line of control in the region over which India and Pakistan have been quarreling for decades shows not only the fragility of ceasefires but the inroads of terrorism from the Middle East across South and Southeast […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI — Security is definitely a matter of definition. When we talk about security in Northeast Asia, we’re thinking about the threat posed by more than a million North Korean troops, thousands of artillery pieces and long-range missiles tipped with weapons of mass destruction, probably nuclear. That’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Japanese investment in China last year exceeded $70 billion. There are 14,000 Japanese companies in China. But that may be about to change because Japan is poised to leave China for India, adding huge benefits to the South Asian country in terms of jobs creation, technological transfer, […]