summary of important events that have taken place in last one week affecting India's national security.

 This article is a summary of important events that have taken place in last one week affecting India's national security.

 

News In Brief

 

 

 

 

 

1. Starting next year, the Indian Army will cease importing ammunition. In fact, India aims to capture 10% of the global market.
2. India advances in semiconductor manufacturing with Tata Electronics exporting packaged semiconductor chips.
3. The Union Home Ministry has designated 57 individuals as terrorists under UAPA. Among them, 7 are linked to various Khalistani groups and are based in Canada, Germany, and the USA, while 50 are in Pakistan.
4. The stage is set for further GST reforms, highlighting its success in India.
5. The Maldives has expressed willingness to collaborate with India on sensitive issues, and India has extended a soft loan to the Maldives.
6. India is emerging as a major player in auto exports.
7. In light of recent US college protests, India, often lectured on handling public dissent, invites viewers to compare how the USA dealt with the agitations with full physical force on university campuses.
8. To curb stubble burning, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, and Rajasthan have been directed to exclude farmers who burn post-harvest stubble from minimum support price benefits starting this year, as per Supreme Court directives.
9. The government has instructed telecom companies to block 28,200 mobile handsets used in cyber crimes and to re-verify 2 million mobile numbers associated with these handsets.
10. India's gold imports surged by 30%, reaching 45 billion dollars in the financial year 2024, making it the second-largest import item for the country.
11. Putin replaces security chiefs in surprise reshuffle
12. Sergei Shoigu’s move from defence ministry painted as an attempt to rein in runaway military spending.
13. China floats world’s first drone aircraft carrier
14. Satellite image shows dedicated drone carrier at Yangtze River shipyard, signaling a potential shift in China’s naval power projection strategy

  

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Taiwan’s Lai Ching-te’s Precarious Balancing Act

 

 

On May 20, in a ceremony in Taipei, Lai Ching-te is scheduled to be inaugurated as the next leader of Taiwan. Currently vice president, Lai is taking over from President Tsai Ing-wen at a delicate moment in Taiwan’s relations with Beijing. And although Taiwan has managed to maintain significant trade and interpersonal ties to mainland China while postponing discussions over its sovereignty, this ambiguous status quo has recently frayed amid political headwinds from both Beijing and Taipei. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has explicitly made taking Taiwan part of his plans to “rejuvenate” China. But Taiwan’s people are less interested than ever in unifying with the mainland.

 

If Washington aims to bolster asymmetric deterrence through arms sales and training, for instance, policymakers should take care to expand such programs without fanfare or political posturing. The overriding objective should be to postpone the date of any potential conflict as far as possible into the future, in hopes that the political landscape will shift to allow for a peaceful, permanent settlement.

 

Such patience is, after all, the route that Lai has chosen. As he stated in a television interview in December, quoting Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, “supreme excellence” is “breaking an opponent’s will without a fight.”