COMMENTARIES
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Spotlight West Asia
India in Iraq: Need for Better Focus
Ranjit Gupta · 07 Jul, 2014 · #4548 · Commentary · Column
Though Iraq has been a particularly good and politically supportive friend and had episodically been the top oil supplier to India in the past, relations perforce started losing momentum in the wake of the US policies after Iraq’s invasion...
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East Asia Compass
China-South Korea: Changing Dynamics of Regional Politics
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 07 Jul, 2014 · #4547 · Commentary · Column
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to South Korea on 3-4 July 2014 is symbolic of a nascent but important change in East Asian political equations. For the first time, a Chinese President visited South Korea before meeting with t...
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Voice from America
US and the World Cup: Nationalism without Football?
Amit Gupta · 07 Jul, 2014 · #4546 · Commentary
Once every four years Americans discover football - or as they like to call it, soccer. Yet this temporary attraction to the game has little to do with a real understanding of the global sport but more with the ability to project sporting nation...
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Myanmar: Priority for the New Indian Government
Rahul Mishra · 04 Jul, 2014 · #4545 · Commentary
Ever since Narendra Modi assumed office as the Indian Prime Minister, speculations regarding his foreign policy priorities have been rife. Many in the Indian media suggest that since this is the first time Modi is at the helm of central governme...
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The Case for a South Asian Shared Rivers Commission
India, China and the MoU on Brahmaputra
Wasbir Hussain · 03 Jul, 2014 · #4544 · Commentary
India and China signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) during the Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari’s recent five-day visit to Beijing from 26 June– 1 July. One of them was on the ‘flood data’ of the Brahmaputra R...
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IPCS Discussion
China’s Maritime March West
Report · 03 Jul, 2014 · #4543 · Commentary
Admiral (Retd.) Pradeep Kaushiva
Director, National Maritime Foundation
Given China’s geographical location, it is possible for China to access the world via three different directions: eastwards across the Pacific, westwards acros...
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Our (Self) Imported Leaders
The Tahirul Qadri Affair
D Suba Chandran · 03 Jul, 2014 · #4542 · Commentary
It all started during the third week of last month in Pakistan. The Punjab police raided the office of Tahirul Qadri, the maverick “Visiting” political leader of Pakistan, in the garb of clearing the encroachments made as a part of s...
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Russia and the Ukraine Crisis: An Indian Perspective
Ranjit Gupta · 02 Jul, 2014 · #4541 · Commentary
Since the Crimean Parliament’s 6 March, 2014, decision to seek independence, India has issued several official statements regarding evolving events in or related to Ukraine, including a warmly worded message of congratulations to Mr. Petro...
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J&K
NC, NDA and Autonomy
Shujaat Bukhari · 02 Jul, 2014 · #4540 · Commentary
On June 26, the resolution adopted by Jammu and Kashmir Assembly asking for greater autonomy as it existed before August 9, 1953, completed 14 years but without any substantial movement forward. The culmination of six-day-long debate on the issu...
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Teesta, Land Boundary and Immigration
A Ray of Hope for India-Bangladesh Relations?
Sonia Hukil · 01 Jul, 2014 · #4539 · Commentary
During her first visit to Bangladesh as the Indian External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj pledged to strengthen bilateral ties.
What are Bangladesh’s expectations from the new government in New Delhi? Bangladesh largely views Indian P...
