Showing posts with label Manoj Joshi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manoj Joshi. Show all posts

Monday, 23 May 2016

India, US and an eastward tilt (Manoj Joshi, South Asia Monitor)

On an ordinary globe, India and the United States cannot be seen together, so far apart are they that when it’s daylight here it is night there. Yet, preachy, noisy democracies have a strange pull for each other. They now say that they are in the process of establishing a strategic relationship, which the cheerleaders declare will be the defining partnership of the 21st century. The facts on the ground suggest, however, that both sides continue to hedge and the framework of the relationship remains somewhat rickety

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=n&nid=17145

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

What ‘Excessive Maritime Claims’ Is US Challenging India Over? (Manoj Joshi, ORF)

On April 19, the US Department of Defence put out a two-page document detailing what it said were the “excessive maritime claims” of certain countries. The purpose of this annual exercise, which has been around for the past decade and more, is to list the countries as well as mark the fact that the US Navy has challenged the claims, in some instances multiple times, in a particular calendar year.

http://www.eurasiareview.com/03052016-what-excessive-maritime-claims-is-us-challenging-india-over-analysis/