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181481
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ID:
189633
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This year, India’s defense diplomacy has ramped up. In 2015 alone there have been 18 military exercises- naval, army and air force- with 13 countries, among the largest engagements the country has had. Most significant is Japan joining the Malabar exercises in the Bay of Bengal and the first-ever maritime exercise with Australia. This is increasing India’s presence from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. As these exercises intensify India will be better positioned to handle regional security challenges.
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181497
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ID:
189644
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Earlier known as Formosa, Taiwan is a tiny island off the east coast of China, separated from mainland China by the Taiwan Strait. It’s part of what’s called the “first island chain” -a string of islands nations/territories, including Japan, South Korea and Philippines that are seen as pro-US. The visit by US speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan is not being well received by China. It has sparked intense tensions between the two powerful countries- China and US as China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province. Taiwan, which considers itself a sovereign nation, has long been claimed by China, who considers Taiwan to be its breakaway province. Yet Taiwan also counts the US as its biggest ally, and Washington has a law that requires it to assist Taiwan in defending itself.
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ID:
193356
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India, the world’s biggest importer of weapons, has long been desperate to expand its indigenous
defence industry. It has not been easy. A “Make in India” defence policy was launched eight years
ago, followed in 2020 by “Atmanirbhar Bharat” (Self-reliant India), when the government raised
the maximum stake that could be held by foreigners in joint ventures in defence from 49% to 74%.However, by the start of last year, foreign direct investment in the defence industry had reached only $380m, against a target of $10bn by 2025.
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185133
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A month after the Biden Administration pulled U.S forces out of Afghanistan, only seventeen per cent of the country’s more than twenty-three hundred health clinics were functional. Doctors in the hospital in Kabul told that they hadn’t been paid since the Taliban seized power, in August, and that medicine is in short supply. The new government is struggling to feed the country’s thirty-nine million people, and the chance that an Afghan baby will go hungry and die is the highest in twenty years. Half of the country’s population needs humanitarian assistance to survive, double the number from 2020. More than twenty million people are on the brink of famine.
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