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  • Building of Missiles by Taiwan and Chinese Concerns
    Neha Kumar    ·   19 Oct, 2007    ·    #2396    ·    Commentary    
    Taiwan is building cruise missiles in response to China's rapid missile and military modernization programs. Taiwan has also complained about the 900 missiles deployed by China against it. Taiwan has now tested a land-based cruise missile wh...
  • Security Concerns in Siliguri
    Souvik Chatterji    ·   18 Oct, 2007    ·    #2395    ·    Commentary    
    Terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir has effectively sidelined the systematic disruptive activities taking place in the Northeast India for the last several years. The Maoists have emerged as a destructive group whose activities have had a dangerous...
  • Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's Visit to India
    Anushree Bhattacharya    ·   17 Oct, 2007    ·    #2394    ·    Commentary    
    The Philippines President, Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo paid a state visit to India from 4-6 October 2007. It was her first visit to South Asia and the second in a decade by a Filipino head-of-state to India. The visit provided a much needed roa...
  • South Korean Posture on the Indo-US Deal and NSG
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   15 Oct, 2007    ·    #2393    ·    Commentary    
    The Indian Foreign Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, visited South Korea from 16 to 18 September. Besides bilateral issues, he also discussed the prospect of South Korean support for India in the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). The spokespers...
  • Fukuda's Accession: Implications for India
    Rajesh Kapoor    ·   10 Oct, 2007    ·    #2392    ·    Commentary    
    The recent accession of Yasuo Fukuda to the Prime Minister's post following Shinzo Abe's resignation shows that seniority won over popularity for the post of Prime Minister. Taro Aso, Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Par...
  • Poor Policing and Weak Intelligence Gathering
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   10 Oct, 2007    ·    #2391    ·    Commentary    
    On 3 October 2007 the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil outlined some crucial concerns in the fight against terrorism in New Delhi, at the conference of Directors-General and Inspectors-General of Police, like low police-population ratio, inadeq...
  • Non-Traditional Security and International Cooperation between China and India
       ·   10 Oct, 2007    ·    #2390    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Prof. Wang Dehua, Director, Institute of South and Central Asia Studies, Shanghai The concept of "non-traditional security" in China is very new, with the term being rarely spoken of about three years ago. However, in recent ye...
  • Myanmar in Turmoil and the Indian Response
    Anushree Bhattacharya    ·   04 Oct, 2007    ·    #2389    ·    Commentary    
    On 15 August 2007, the military-ruled Myanmar government hiked the prices of diesel and petrol by 100 per cent and of compressed natural gas used by buses by 500 per cent. The resultant sharp price rise brought further economic hardships to an a...
  • The November Elections and the Nepali Maoists
    Uddhab P Pyakurel    ·   04 Oct, 2007    ·    #2388    ·    Commentary    
    The Nepalese are enthusiastic to draft their own constitution through the convening of a Constituent Assembly (CA), an unfulfilled demand for the last six decades. Till September, there was hope that the November elections will take place and th...
  • Combating International Terrorism
       ·   01 Oct, 2007    ·    #2387    ·    Commentary    
    Report of Seminar held at the IPCS on 24 September 2007 Speaker: Raphael Francis Perl Terrorism and Security Analyst Congressional Research Service (CRS), Washington DC, USA India and the US both face the threat of terrorism. Even whil...
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