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In Cyberspy vs. Cyberspy, China leads America and China have grown more economically and financially intertwined, as such the 2 Nations have also stepped up spying on each other. Today, most spying is done electronically, with computers rather than listening devices in chandeliers or human...

U.S.- Pakistan ties are entering an even more dangerous phase, going by the language that the two sides are employing ever since a public airing of differences over covert U.S. activities in Pakistan It’s a game of smoke and mirrors and some of it could be bluff and bluster, but there is...

India is all set to place an order with a South Korean shipyard for building eight minesweepers for its navy in its quest to overhaul its existing fleet of such specialised warships, defence ministry sources say. The ministry has zeroed in on Pusan-based Kangnam Corporation as the lowest...

Copenhagen. December 7, 2009. United Nations Climate Change Conference. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh were hammering out India’s climate policy for the summit. Leader of the bloc of developing nations, India was not seeing eye-to-eye with the US. A...

Pakistan is not about to erupt like Egypt. Fundamentally because Pakistanis have never been gagged. BY Mosharraf Zaidi If you’re holding your breath for a revolution in Pakistan, you should stop and inhale deeply. There is no mass street protest movement that is about to envelop Pakistan...

Juicy contracts have started flowing back to top Chinese telecom gearmakers. After Huawei clinched a plum 3G network equipment contract from Tata Teleservices , it was rival ZTE Corp’s turn to land a Rs 300-crore contract to supply WiMax systems to BSNL for its broadband rollout. After a...

Barely a month ahead of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to India next month, New Delhi has made it clear that it expects Beijing to set the record straight on Jammu & Kashmir by reciprocating just the way India has done in the case of Chinese sensitivities in Tibet and Taiwan. This was...

WASHINGTON - It used to be a closely guarded secret, but on Thursday the U.S. government disclosed for the first time in more than a decade what it spent on total intelligence gathering in the fiscal year that just ended: $80.1 billion. That's more than the U.S. spent on the Department of...

The Asian space race is moving along slowly, but steadily – and China is in the lead, with technology that could give it a military advantage over the US. By Jonathan Adams China looks set to pull ahead in the Asian space race to the moon, putting a spacecraft into lunar orbit Oct. 6 in a...

Air strikes in Afghanistan are up 50 per cent and now Defense Secretary Gates has ordered a second aircraft carrier, the USS Lincoln, into the fight. Two carriers operating off the coast of Pakistan means about 120 aircraft available for missions over Afghanistan. And that's not counting U.S...

Going by the buzz in industry circles, easing of US export controls and removal of key Indian units from the banned 'Entities List' could well be the next big thing during President Barack Obama's visit to India. At present India is denied technology in 11 of the 16 categories, just one...

by Amanda Boettcher In the United States, policy makers and advocacy groups have lobbied for defense spending cuts. On September 14, 2010, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a 5-year plan to reduce military spending by the Department of Defense beginning in 2012, for a total reduction of...

By HARSH V. PANT,King's College, London. A two-week standoff between China and Japan over a boat collision has once again underlined the communist state's penchant for bullying its neighbors, and might have done more harm than good for the emergence of China as the leader in the region over...

Now this is some interesting development,China and Japan came to an eye to eye confrontation for the same matter,were china termed Japan as aggressor,now here the condition is quite opposite

In one of the biggest show of military might since the collapse of USSR, Russia mobilised 20,000 troops and state-of-the-art weapons in a drill, with President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday asserting that his country is a "great" naval power capable of defending its interests. Medvedev watched...

Success breeds confidence, and rapid success spawns arrogance. That, in a nutshell, is the China problem facing Asian states and the West. But no country faces a bigger dilemma on China than the United States because the present American policy simply isn't advancing its objectives. Rising...

ISLAMABAD: Two leading international news groups on Saturday launched what appears like a well-coordinated campaign against the Pakistan Army, especially General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. “(President) Obama should make a few things clear to the general: that America knows the extent of the ISI’s...

Mumbai: Sri Lanka cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara and his teammate Sanath Jayasuriya believe that IIFA Awards 2010, to be held in Colombo on June 3-5, are a "big opportunity" to promote Sri Lanka in Bollywood and foster a better relationship between the two countries. "It's a big opportunity...