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The writer is an alumnus of the National Defence College, and the author of China in India.

The appeal of erecting physical border barriers waned after the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989. (Photo: AFP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Trading with enemy: What drove Germans to...

Mighty Berlin's submission to Beijing durbar was also symbolic of the shifting reality of geopolitics

24 Nov 2022 12:08 AM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening session of the 20th Chinese Communist Partys Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16, 2022. - The effect was achieved through varying the lens focal length. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After 60 years: Beijing still focused on...

While China has started issuing visas to a few Indian students to return to their classes in that country, there are...

20 Oct 2022 1:24 AM IST

Indian Air Force choppers fly in a formation during the full dress rehearsal of the Republic Day Parade 2022, at Rajpath, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | IAF's big challenge: Building world-class...

For India the stratospheric expenditure to buy fighters was a major financial challenge, forcing it to be a parsimonious...

8 Oct 2022 1:50 AM IST

Servicemen of a territorial defence unit train during an exercise in Kryvyj Rih on September 28, 2022, amid the Russia invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Moscow & West must remember history, and scale...

Several questions arise in the context of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Is Russia too big to sustain itself on its own...

29 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

The Army said that during the meeting, the discussions between the two sides focussed on the resolution of the remaining issues along the LAC in Eastern Ladakh. (Representational image: AFP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Tackling Chinese duplicity: Challenge for...

This week's so-called disengagement looks like a ploy to trap India into a point of no return; crafted by dragon...

15 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

Chinas new Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said that with two strong leaders at the helm in both the countries, the ties are set to reach new heights. (Photo: Twitter/ VikramMisri)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Time to join forces to take on Beijing's wolf...

Ambassador Sun Weidong only signalled the acute fear psychosis of his masters in Beijing, owing to transcontinental...

27 Aug 2022 12:00 AM IST

A military fighter jet flies above the Taiwan Strait as seen from the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, the closest point in mainland China to the island of Taiwan. (Photo: AP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Beijing bully runs berserk: Taiwan today,...

What began in 1950 subsequently became a familiar pattern, leading to routine and repetitive acts

13 Aug 2022 12:14 AM IST

This handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency shows the Islamic Republics President Ebrahim Raisi (R) walking alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tehran on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Iranian Presidency / AFP) /

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Ukraine: What lay behind Russia's unprovoked...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is entirely culpable and can't run away from his avoidable and deplorable decision to...

20 July 2022 7:05 AM IST

A woman runs from a house thats on fire after shelling in Donetsk, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk Peoples Republic control, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | If Ukraine war goes on, no return to status...

We can only hope that the present doesn't emulate the past to make the future murkier, darker and dirtier

29 Jun 2022 7:15 AM IST

Civilian volunteers attend a training camp of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces in Brovary, northeast of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 21, 2022. (/Felipe Dana/AP File)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Arms and the West: Global effect of the war in...

The ongoing European conflict is a grand opportunity for the arms makers, suppliers and middlemen to make their mega...

15 Jun 2022 11:47 PM IST

Union minister of state for food and public distribution system, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, stated in Lok Sabha that in terms of rice, Punjab had contributed 135.89 LMTs while Telangana contributed 94.57 LMTs. (Representational image: PTI)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Wheat, famine, starvation: Some lessons for...

Like the 1770 famine which heralded the West's arrival on Indian soil, the British departure from the East too saw the...

25 May 2022 12:55 AM IST

Pope Francis. (AP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Ukraine poses a big crisis for political'...

Political empires and the papacy of course don't sail in the same boat any longer, as was the case in the Middle Ages in...

11 May 2022 12:18 AM IST