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Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Sunday, 29 January 2023
#SecurityScan 28: Wargaming Chinese invasion of Taiwan, China's decline in population and more
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1. Republic Day Parade 2023: Indian Army showcases Made in Indian weapons
"The weapons displayed included the K-9 Vajra howitzers, MBT Arjun, Nag anti-tank guided missiles, BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, Akash air defence missiles, and the Quick Reaction Fighting Vehicles. India Army showcased 'Made in India' Weapons systems during the Republic day parade on January 26. The Republic Day parade is a very big event for the entire nation which is watched across the globe."
India celebrated its 74th Republic day parade and this year's Republic Day Parade, Indian Army would showcase only Made in India Weapons systems. Akash Missile system is a newly inducted weapon system which is one of the most advanced weapon systems currently.
In the Republic Day Parade held at Kartavya Path in Delhi, personnel from the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Paramilitary forces participated. Twenty-three tableaux from 17 states and various departments of the government took part in.
45 aircraft including 9 Rafale jets and four helicopters were included in the fly-past at the celebrations. The IL-38 plane of the Indian Air Force took part in the Republic Day parade for the first and perhaps the last time. Formations of the flag, Rudra, eagle, Tiranga, Garuda, Bhima, Amrit, and Vijay among others were made in the fly past.
2. India’s alarm - as China and Bhutan move closer to resolving border
China’s talks with Bhutan prompted India to send its foreign secretary over for meetings with the kingdom’s leaders.Bhutan attempts to settle border dispute with China should not hurt India’s strategic interests.
3. India’s electric vehicle market glides into future
The Indian government has offered producers incentives to help with emerging technologies which are working very well.
4. Apple targeting manufacturing 25% of all of its iPhones in India
Last year, Apple began assembling its flagship iPhone 14 in India. It was the first time Apple produced its latest model in India so close to its launch.Apple has been looking to diversify production away from China, where it currently makes the bulk of its iPhones, after a Covid outbreak at its main assembly plant exposed fragilities in its supply chain.
5. Egypt shows keen interest in procuring Tejas jets, other platforms from India
The Egyptian side conveyed its keenness on acquiring the Indian platforms during delegation-level talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. The 68-year-old influential Arab leader was on a three-day visit. He graced the Republic Day celebrations as the chief guest.
6. Naming of Andaman Islands After PVC Winners
The Union Government deserves appreciation for naming 21 islands of the Andamans after Param Vir Chakra awardees. Befittingly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the announcement on the occasion of the 126th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the legendary freedom fighter who had hoisted the Tricolour in the archipelago on December 30, 1943. The PM also unveiled the model of a Bose memorial to be set up on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Island, which was previously known as Ross Island. It was on December 30, 2018, that the PM had announced the renaming of Ross Island, Neil Island (Shaheed Dweep) and Havelock Island (Swaraj Dweep) to honor Bose’s memory and acknowledge the Andamans’ contribution to the freedom struggle.
The 21 islands have been named after valiant soldiers such as Major Somnath Sharma (the first Param Vir Chakra awardee), Major Shaitan Singh, Lance Naik Albert Ekka, Major (later Colonel) Hoshiar Singh, 2nd Lt Arun Khetarpal, Flying Officer Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon, Captain Vikram Batra and Grenadier (later Subedar Major and Hony Captain) Yogendra Singh Yadav.
Most of these heroes made the supreme sacrifice during various wars that India has fought since Independence. This special homage is also a glowing tribute to the armed forces’ all-important role in defending the nation’s borders over the decades.
The government’s laudable gesture has turned the spotlight on the Andamans, that are best known not only for their wonderful beaches but also for the Cellular Jail, where India’s freedom fighters were incarcerated by British rulers. Government is working on making the islands self-reliant. This is a huge challenge as the archipelago needs better Internet connectivity and a robust road network. The development of infrastructure is necessitated by the Andamans’ strategic importance in view of their proximity to the Indo-Pacific region.
Established in 2001, the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC) is India’s sole integrated theatre command. Its operational preparedness is vital for national security amid the military threat posed by China. Bolstering the ANC is also a prerequisite for carrying out much-delayed theatrisation of the defence forces.
Saturday, 21 January 2023
वर्षातून 365 दिवस चालणाऱ्या चीनच्या मल्टी डोमेन युद्धाला भारताचे प्रत्युत्तर
#SecurityScan 27: Defence budget, digital payments, Himachal's bankruptcy and more https://www.newsbharati.com/Encyc/2023/1/21/security-scan-27.html
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1. Emboldened China Protesters Test Xi’s Resolve
Chinese people find new power to speak up after demonstrations. Authorities are on alert for trouble over biggest holiday of year.
Unrest boiled over in early January, when residents of a central Chinese city flipped over a police car during a heated altercation with law enforcement over the right to set off fireworks, a traditional practice to banish bad luck and usher in a new year. While people usually complain about the curbs, the response this year was unusually violent.
2. China population: new births to fall
As China’s workforce continues to shrink, labour costs will keep rising and some manufacturing industries will look to offshore.By 2050, the median age in China will be 50, while it will be 42.3 years old in the United States and 37.5 in India .
Weary parents in China say the difficulties of juggling work and childcare in a costly and ultra-competitive society with little help from the state are at the root of the country’s dwindling birth rate.
China's fertility rates were already decreasing in the 1970s, and by 1980, the Chinese government formally instituted the controversial one child policy, legally restricting families from having more than one baby. This resulted in low fertility rates and a large ageing population. In 2015, China ended the one-child policy and began allowing married couples to have two children. It expanded the allowance again in 2021, permitting up to three kids.
China's shrinking population will mean the country will see its economic growth shrink.This could stymie economic growth and pile pressure on public coffers.
3. How China sneaks out America's technology secrets
It was an innocuous-looking photograph that turned out to be the downfall of Zheng Xiaoqing, a former employee with energy conglomerate General Electric Power.He hid confidential files stolen from his employers in the binary code of a digital photograph of a sunset, then mailed to himself. It was a technique called steganography, a means of hiding a data file within the code of another data file. He utilised it on multiple occasions to take sensitive files from GE.
4. China tightens media control with stakes in two Alibaba units
Government-backed stakes primarily affect the company’s video platform and web browser business.The two subsidiaries both fall under Alibaba’s entertainment and culture arm. Along with media, finance and energy are the two other industries that Beijing is inclined to control.
5. The U.S. has expanded training provided to the military of Taiwan
The National Guard, a American mlitary force, began training the Taiwanese military before spring 2022.
6. Canada’s New Guidelines for Alcohol Say ‘No Amount’ Is Healthy
The guidance builds on growing evidence, after decades of sometimes conflicting research, that even small amounts of alcohol can have serious health consequences.
7. Ukraine War Update
A Wagner(private Russian army) fighter defects to Norway, promising to expose Russian war crimes in Ukraine.The rare defection by a former member of the notorious Russian paramilitary force could aid investigations into Moscow’s atrocities.
Spies, soldiers and the public are using open-source intelligence.
Its abundance in Ukraine is transforming how the world gathers intelligence.
8. Chat GPT
Chat GPT, the artificial intelligence system that can produce sophisticated essays on complex subjects in seconds,
It will become the “calculator for writing,” according to a leading economist.
The chat bot “will get rid of a lot of routine, rote type of work and at the same time people using it may be able to do more creative work.”
Tremendous capabilities of many disruptive technologies must be utilised fully to close technology gap between India and the developed World.
Thursday, 19 January 2023
#SecurityScan 26: Pakistan's low-cost Proxy War in J&K, Narco terror and more
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here are only four other surviving Communist states: Vietnam, Laos, North Korea and Cuba.The deep mistrust that complicates China's relationships with Vietnam and North Korea, and its ties with Laos, demonstrates that even similarity of political structures does not create influence.
It is also important to recognize that much of the gloss has worn off the Chinese model in the last decade. However successful he has been at amassing power, Xi has not proved particularly competent at governance. The unprepared abrupt shift from his zero-COVID policy to the fiasco we are now witnessing, as infections soar and medical facilities fall short, is only the latest of his missteps. It is hard to think of any of his initiatives as an unqualified success.
Returns on China's investments in influence have been most marginal where they have been most focused: Asia in general and Southeast Asia in particular."
3. Taiwan China War-
A full-scale war involving the US and Japan in the defence of Taiwan against an invasion of the island by China would involve “massive attrition” on both sides, dwarfing the scale of the war in Ukraine, a war game exercise shows.
The exercise, run by the Washington think-tank Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), is set in 2026.All scenarios start with a lightning invasion of Taiwan by China, and the assumption that the island does not quickly give up.
A hypothetical Chinese invasion of Taiwan “quickly founders” but exacts high costs on Taiwan and the US Navy, according to the results of an extensive set of war games released Monday by a Washington think tank.
Despite “massive Chinese bombardment, Taiwanese ground forces stream to the beachhead, where the invaders struggle to build up supplies and move inland” as “US submarines, bombers, and fighter aircraft, often reinforced by Japan Self-Defense Forces, rapidly cripple the Chinese amphibious fleet,” in the “most likely” scenario.
4. Chinese Bid To Dominate Container Shipping Industry-
A shipping company with deep ties to Chinese state-owned companies purchased container terminals in New York and New Jersey in December, raising serious questions about the ability and willingness of the West to counter China’s strategic capability.
China’s growing maritime commercial logistics empire poses a direct threat to the liberal international order. Beijing is building a platform for control of oceanic commerce and an amphibious invasion force that is extending the frontier of Chinese Communist Party influence all over world.
5. Japnese PM Visit to Europe-
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is discussing security cooperation with European counterparts during his Group of Seven tour, a further sign of how shared concern about Russia and China is breaking down old geographical divisions. Kishida explained Japan's recently revised national security strategy in a meeting on Tuesday with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni.
They agreed to elevate the countries' relationship to a strategic partnership and to hold consultations between foreign policy and defense officials.
6. Russia and Iran are working on a new shipping corridor that cuts Europe and its sanctions out of the picture, and are looking to partner with India, which has kept its distance from the Western-led isolation campaign against the two countries. Advantage India.
7. Non-residents from 10 countries will soon use UPI for fund transfer
To start with, this facility will be available to non-residents in 10 countries—Singapore, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Oman, Qatar, USA, Saudi Arabia, UAE and the United Kingdom.
This is a very important step to increase the reach of UPI and will make Indian economy more efficient.
8. Bengaluru set for Army Day Parade
"Karnataka became the first State to host this mega national event for the first time outside Delhi because the first Army Chief Major General K M Cariappa took command of the Indian Army from General Sir Francis Roy Bucher, the last British Commander-in-Chief in 1949, thus becoming the first Indian Commander-in-Chief post-independence.
9. Situation along Northern border stable but unpredictable: Army Chief Manoj Pande
Referring to the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, he said the ceasefire understanding that was agreed to in February 2021 is holding well. At the same time Gen Pande said cross-border support to terrorism and terror infrastructure remained. The Chief of Army Staff also said that a proposal for induction of women personnel into artillery units has been sent to the government.
INTERNAL SECURITY
Low-Cost Proxy War In J&K Will Continue
The targeted killing of Hindus in Raujori on Jan 1 that left seven innocent including women and children dead and 14 injured, has once again exposed the ugly face of Pakistan.
In an attempt to conceal involvement of existing terrorist groups in targeting Hindus, the ISI has created fake entities like United Liberation Front of Kashmir [ULFK], The Resistance Force [TRF], Kashmir Tigers [KT] and People’s Anti-Fascist Force [PAFF]. While these groups don’t physically exist, their fictitious ‘spokespersons’ promptly take responsibility for targeted killing of Hindus, migrants and other soft targets.
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