Strategic Analyst

https://www.aviation-defence-universe.com/strategic-ambiguity-returns-taiwan-for-hormuz-the-hidden-bargain-behind-trumps-beijing-visit/ Strategic Ambiguity Returns: Taiwan for Hormuz? The Hidden Bargain Behind Trump’s Beijing Visit Hits 279 President Donald J. Trump participates in a welcome ceremony with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China, Thursday, May 14, 2026, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) By Jai Kumar Verma New Delhi. 19 June 2026. The return of Donald Trump to high-stakes diplomacy has revived an older and deeply consequential doctrine in American foreign policy: strategic ambiguity. Trump’s current Beijing visit comes at a moment when the United States is simultaneously confronting instability in the Gulf, rising energy insecurity, economic pressures at home, and intensifying great-power competition with China. Against this backdrop, a provocative question has begun circulating across dip...

https://www.aviation-defence-universe.com/tehreek-e-taliban-resurges-making-pakistan-squirm/ Tehreek-e-Taliban resurges making Pakistan squirm The Author By Jai Kumar Verma New Delhi. 17 November 2023. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Pakistan more than a decade ago in a joint press conference with Pakistan’s the then Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar that “You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them to only bite your neighbour”. As expected, Pakistan has neither adhered to this rationale nor taken the advice and continues supporting multiple terrorist organisations and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) popularly known as Pakistan Taliban is one of them. In June 2022 TTP terminated the truce with Pakistan government and issued instructions to its fighters to carry out attacks on Pakistani security forces all over the country. On 4 November this year Tehreek-i-Jihad Pakistan (TJP) a newly constituted terrorist outfit and frontal organisation of TTP has...