India’s foreign ministry quickly & firmly shut down chatter from U.S. President Donald Trump about mediating in Kashmir, while meeting Pakistan PM Imran Khan. Trump claimed that Indian PM Narendra Modi had asked him to mediate Kashmir ‘two weeks back’. The MEA replied in short order: No, he didn’t.
Even after two decades since the acquisition case, the Very Short Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) search has seen a system absent from trials and failing trials, being passed as technically compliant and ending up as, apparently, the cheapest. Also problematic is the difficulty its purchase could pose by provoking U.S. sanctions under their CAATSA.
Shashanka Nanda explains why it’s tricky for Kim Jong-un to visit Mongolia or Singapore by train for the U.S.-North Korea Summit. Short version: Very long, very complicated and perhaps not possible.
A phone call by President Trump to PM Modi on Independence Day mentioned the setting up of a ‘2-by-2 ministerial dialogue’ between the two countries.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock has only been closer to midnight once before, after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. tested hydrogen bombs in 1953.
