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Aukus and Quad do not seek to displace Asean: Australian DPM - Straits Times Smaller groupings such as Aukus and the Quad do not seek to replace Asean’s centrality for cooperative security in this region, but to complement it, said Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marle...

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Japan, U.S., Australia, Philippines vow to boost defense cooperation That's a pretty lop-sided quadrilateral One of the corners seems quite weak, and much more susceptible to attack by China sanman, yes. But, if the US is a member, every quadrilateral would appear so, relatively speaking. And again...

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https://archive.is/xGYq8 China, India Kick Out Nearly All of Each Other’s Journalists as Rivalry Escalates Rift that opened with deadly border clash deepens as neighbors deny reporter visas Keith Zhai, May 30, 2023 Going further on this issue, without getting distracted, Indian MEA has reacted . &q...

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https://archive.is/xGYq8 China, India Kick Out Nearly All of Each Other’s Journalists as Rivalry Escalates Rift that opened with deadly border clash deepens as neighbors deny reporter visas Keith Zhai, May 30, 2023 But, China has kicked out a number of journalists from various countries too. Its pa...

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What Makes Chandrayaan-3 ISRO's Most Difficult Mission Yet, and why it's More Than a Technology Feat - ET Prime

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Would those be indigenously developed? And how much of a breakthrough would they be? Yes, they are indigenously developed by the ISU (Inertial Systems Unit) of ISRO. Magnetic levitation is magnetic bearing instead of roller or ball or fluid bearings in Reaction Wheels which control the attitude of ...

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IAF Chief as well as Naval & Army officers attended the launch

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4m fairing (up from 3.4m) means larger satellites can be launched. Yes, true. There have been quite a few modifications to the CUS too after the FAC had made some recommendations, following F-10. The Range Director made it a point to frequently announce 'Cryo Stage Performance Normal' and every tim...

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Excellent launch. Copybook. CUSP performed as expected.

Quite a few new technologies incorporated both in the vehicle and in the payload.

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GSLV-F12/NVS-01 Mission 29 May 2023 at 10:42 AM IST

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It was Gen. Musharraf who appointed Madam Jalebi as the Director General of Pakistan Institute of Strategic Studies (PISS). Madam Jalebi had this to say immediately about terrorism in her weekly column in The News in circa 1999, “But perhaps the Kashmiri freedom fighters need to be reminded of histo...

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I2U2 and now I2US

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Are there any theories or explanations for such extreme brutality shown extensively by Japanese troops ? Cyrano, I would put racism, the self-anointment of being the rulers over the rest (much like the idea of the Middle Kingdom), the population’s fierce loyalty to the Emperor, the long-standing mi...

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And, maritime trade. India was also a transshipment point between China and the Arabs & beyond. The excellent knowledge about the wind patterns helped Indian seamen to navigate. Funan, Champa, Sri Wijaya, Majapahit et al are fine examples of thalassocracies which were Hindu/ Buddhist influences.

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I have moved posts specific to Japan to the Japan thread: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3744&start=2080

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Always used to wonder why the cheenis loathed the japs so much and continue to do so even today That hatred is mutual and goes 2000 years back in the longest running 'civilizational enmity'. The Chinese believe that the Japanese are the descendants of a group of Hans who were sent East by the first...

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The japs supporting the INA was not to help India but to take on the britshits. They coveted and also desperately needed the resources of India. Their motivations in supporting the INA were not in the least altruistic, but very self serving in the extreme. *Long Post* Of course, they were self-cent...

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ramana, by choosing to be in Pakistan's terrorist league since a long time and supporting its terrorism openly in the UNSC and FATF, China has shown the world that it doesn't care about reputation. Besides, the way it coerces and terrorizes small littorals of the Indo-China Sea shows its traditional...

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Only those 12 Eastern coastal provinces are the 'cradle' of China, Han-core. The rest are accretions or Greater or Akhand China.

It is this Akhand China that has always been problematic for them, both economically and security-wise.

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Thank you for posting the above, vimal. This is phenomenal and painstaking research work, which reveals a number of modus-operandi of PRC, some of which we have seen in neighbouring countries. The ‘Currency Swap’ loan is unique. But, I do not subscribe to the theory that China does not deliberately ...

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World affairs are changing so fast right now that a lot of people have trouble adjusting their outlook. <snip> Hide your ambition, bide your time, seize the moment. It won't come again for several lifetimes. YIP, a great post. Completely agree with you. As I too have been saying, the histories of p...

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India is also enhancing its defence cooperation with Papua New Guinea (PNG) for which country it offered a coastal surveillance radar system (just as in the case of Maldives) during the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC), held in Jaipur in August 2015. Since PNG is planning to raise...

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. . . even if we are willing to forget that Japan briefly attacked India during WW2. True, but then Japan was also helping the INA. This is a double-edged sword. Besides, such historical memories are sometimes to be set aside as otherwise we may not be left with many friends. There will always be s...

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Quad Leaders’ Joint Statement - Hiroshima, May 20, 2023

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Quad countries make thinly veiled swipe at China; slam its economic, military tactics - AFP Excerpts In their statement, they stressed the Quad's support for infrastructure improvements across the vast Asia-Pacific region , while saying, in another apparent dig at China, that they wanted to assist ...

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'Ours mustn't be era of war': Quad echoes PM on Ukraine - Sachin Parashar, ToI PM Narendra Modi and other Quad leaders – US President Joe Biden, Japan PM Fumio Kishida and his Australian counterpart Albanese – for the first time in a Quad Leaders’ Joint Statement together explicitly expressed their...

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Anujan wrote:This is a very crucial moment in Pakistan and it is worth discussing its implications for India

Anujan,

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Japan and India seem to be the holdouts against any predeclared role for a militarized quad and India is, for the moment keeping it a sort of commercial quad and the other two are determined to get their way and make it a militarized quad. NATO is already sniffing around the QUAD, hoping to find a ...

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It is good that the four top leaders decided to hold the QUAD meeting on the sidelines of the G7 meeting. Otherwise, this meeting wouldn’t have taken place at Sydney as Biden had to return. It shows the importance that the four nations give to the QUAD.

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ShauryaT wrote:Takshashila Discussion Document - Assessing Arguments Against Closer India-US Ties

Our own Yusuf ji sets 12 points of view with references in this well written paper, to set his basis for conclusions.

I completely agree with Yusuf Unjhawala.

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SCO members vote unanimously to adopt India’s proposal on DPI - Economic Times The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Saturday voted unanimously to adopt India’s proposal for developing digital public infrastructure (DPI) as the right way for deploying digital technology , a senior governme...

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All military coups in Pakistan and declaration of Martial Law have been carried out only with the concurrence of the US. Someone needs to remind Blinken.

There has never been democracy in Pakistan, leave alone a 'peaceful democracy'. Someone needs to remind the not-so Cleverly.

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IIT-M and DRDO develop underwater sensor technology - ToI Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have developed a thin-membrane based sensor technology for underwater communication. The indigenous technology, which can...

SSridhar · Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022 I am worried about the nukes

I am worried about the nukes

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Chinese vessels shadow Indian ships in Asean drill, say officials - HT Chinese surveillance vessel Xiang Yang Hong 10 and at least eight maritime militia ships, a front for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), sailed towards the area where the inaugural Asean-India naval drill ended on...

SSridhar · Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022 Terrific. Mind blowing retort.

Terrific. Mind blowing retort.

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Khalistan Commando chief Paramjit Panjwar gunned down in Lahore Great news. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Lahore officials claimed Panjwar was aPakistani Sikh and had nothing to do with any separatist movement in India. Pakistani media outlets hushed up the news of his death, with...

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Vayutuvan wrote:“Five principles”?! stinks of panchasheela of Bandit-Mao entente with a generous dose of Chou en li.

That was directed at India. China is desperately trying to break India from the Quad

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Chinese Minister Qin takes indirect potshots at US; Russia directly - ET Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang has called for 'carrying forward the Shanghai spirit' following the 'resurgence of cold war' . Addressing the foreign ministers' meeting of SCO in Goa on Friday, Qin said that the world faced ...

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Called out Pakistan’s Bilawal in SCO meet for acting as terror mouthpiece: Jaishankar [BENAULIM, GOA: As the foreign minister of a member-state of the SCO, Pakistan’s Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was treated accordingly, but as a promoter, justifier and spokesperson of Pakistan’s mainstay - the terror in...

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