Nitin Gokhale’s Strategic Group

Nitin Gokhale’s Strategic Group

2/26/2025, 11:12:25 AM

That life is full of coincidences is well known but today, I experienced it. Someone came across a 14-year old blog post I had written. It was about my parents and the Indian military. Read it if inclined http://nitinagokhale.blogspot.com/2011/11/last-week-friend-in-army-reacting-to-my.html?m=1 What was the coincidence? Today, my late father would have turned 93!

Nitin Gokhale’s Strategic Group

2/28/2025, 2:49:08 AM

Till recently, the global leadership in Artificial Intelligence (AI) was firmly in the hands of the United States. And then DeepSeek happened. This foundational AI model from China at a pittance of what it cost to build ChatGPT, suddenly threw the AI race open. The obvious question is where does India figure in these global rankings? Does it have a chance to make it to the big league? Does India hold any unique advantage? To answer all this and more, StratNewsGlobal.Tech spoke to Amitabh Kant, the G20 Sherpa and former CEO of NITI Aayog. https://stratnewsglobal.tech/capital-calculus/ai-will-transform-india-into-a-global-innovator/

Nitin Gokhale’s Strategic Group

2/25/2025, 4:14:13 AM

https://stratnewsglobal.com/world-news/doval-attends-discussion-exhibition-on-bangladesh-minorities/

Nitin Gokhale’s Strategic Group

2/25/2025, 4:13:46 AM

The Russia-Ukraine war is three years old and looks like it may be nearing its end. It shouldn’t have begun in the first place, says Donald Trump. Less than a month after taking charge as U.S. President, his team has held talks with the Russians on ending the war. Trump has blamed the war on Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The latter now finds himself in the lurch. Europe too is feeling the heat. Russia that was called the aggressor by Europe and the earlier U.S. administration led by Joe Biden now finds the burden off its back. The war is on the cusp of ending, says Pankaj Saran, India’s former Deputy National Security Advisor. Nobody thought it would wind down in such a dramatic manner, he adds. ‘A Ronald Reagan Moment’ One man is all it takes either to invade a country or stop a war, Ambassador Saran told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale. It’s a lesson on the role people play in international relations and diplomacy. He looks back at the Cold War and the role then U.S. President Ronald Reagan played. “Reagan was a conservative, diehard Republican, who called the Soviet Union the evil empire. And he was the man who actually started the initiative of peace with then USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev.” For over two years now, Trump has been saying the Russia-Ukraine war should never have happened if he was President. And now he’s becoming even more articulate, saying Ukraine is losing and it’s a matter of time before it collapses on the battlefield. It’s about one man and his vision of what is in America’s interest. “What he is doing is simply walking the talk but at fast forward speed. So this is not a negotiation for the fainthearted. What we are seeing is remarkable. It is a very profound moment.” Nitin A Gokhale WhatsApp Channel Victory For Putin? Would Putin see this as his victory? I think so but he’s clever, so he’s not going to tom-tom his victory, says Ambassador Saran. Russia was isolated, made a pariah state and that was not a good situation. But there have been strategic gains for Russia and Putin other than those in the battlefield. Like the disarray within the European Union and the near rupture in the trans-Atlantic alliance, he adds. As for the peace talks with the U.S., maybe Putin understands that if he doesn’t do it now, it may never happen. So it’s a pivotal moment for him and for the country. Ukraine War: What Trump Is Out To Do Ambassador Saran doesn’t think the issue is the complexity of the negotiation on the Ukraine front in terms of territory or security guarantees. “The grand bargain which Trump is trying to achieve is to change Russia’s geostrategic behaviour. And I think he understood that the Biden administration and the Europeans collectively had pushed Russia into the Chinese fold.” Trump doesn’t take the Russia-China relationship as an unbreakable fact of life, he adds. “He wants to address the big problem. He wants to get in where no one else wants to get in. And the more complex the problem, the greater he enjoys.” https://stratnewsglobal.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-war-winding-down-one-man-is-all-it-takes-says-ambassador-pankaj-saran/

Nitin Gokhale’s Strategic Group

1/31/2025, 2:27:29 AM

Can Patented Products Boost and Shape Defence Technology In India? https://stratnewsglobal.tech/technology/can-patented-products-and-innovation-shape-indias-defence-future/

Nitin Gokhale’s Strategic Group

2/2/2025, 11:30:19 AM

“This is the first explicit articulation by government of the need for nuclear power to support Viksit Bharat with net zero compliance,” said Dr Anil Kakodkar, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. “Until now, the government had only talked of one fourth or one fifth of the 100 GW figure, which is now the holy grail. That is a huge change.” https://stratnewsglobal.com/china/nuclear-power-in-mission-mode-small-reactors-by-2033-100gw-by-2047/

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2/3/2025, 2:14:16 AM

https://stratnewsglobal.com/asia/a-complex-and-controversial-history-of-chinas-claim-over-tibet/

Nitin Gokhale’s Strategic Group

2/1/2025, 2:17:03 AM

https://stratnewsglobal.com/india/1-billion-for-ai-but-will-india-look-deeper-after-deepseek-explosion/

Nitin Gokhale’s Strategic Group

2/4/2025, 2:03:36 AM

https://stratnewsglobal.com/asia/deepseek-rising-star-or-censored-tool/

Nitin Gokhale’s Strategic Group

2/1/2025, 2:25:48 AM

In our China Economy series, StratNewsGlobal spoke to two scholars Prof B R Deepak of Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Manoj Kewalramani, who heads the China Studies programme at the Takshashila Institution. Prof Deepak was in China last November and recalled meeting a cross-section of China’s academic community and common people. “They were not very confident about China’s economy, the kind of confidence they had during the Globalization period was missing. The talk is about rising unemployment, weak consumption, falling real estate prices. Add to that social media criticism or comments about the state of the economy were blocked.” But it did not still the chatter among the educated, aware classes, with some stating that the China economy GDP growth 2021-23, may have been overstated. Add to that local government debt, estimated at many trillion Yuan. Manoj Kewalramani pointed out that domestic consumption, which the Communist Party leadership has been trying to kick start as an economic pillar, has not taken off, largely because of government policies. But that’s not how Xi Jinping sees it. “He sees the economy at an inflection point, where it has a certain direction and that is high end industrial driven growth which will also be export linked,” Kewalramani said. “He also wants to loosen up the traditional barriers between between provinces and cities so he can boost domestic consumption.” Nitin A Gokhale WhatsApp Channel But all this to be achieved from top down, essentially supply driven not market driven because political power requires the maintenance of state control over supply, state control over investment. Private entities will not be allowed to acquire political salience, so that’s the uneasy balance Xi is trying to achieve while trying to transition the economy from its current model. There is a tension between the strategic direction which the party envisions for the economy going forward versus the tactical adjustments required to combat unemployment, inflation or deflation, adding to public uncertainties about the future. https://stratnewsglobal.com/china/chinas-economy-what-people-experience-and-how-xi-jinping-sees-it/