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  • China: Naval Drill and Regime Legitimacy
    Palden Sonam    ·   11 May, 2018    ·    #5463    ·    Commentary    
    President Xi Jinping reviewed the largest naval exercise in China’s history in the disputed South China Sea (SCS) on 12 April, barely two days after the USS Theodore Roosevelt sailed through the same troubled sea as in what the US called norm...
  • The Strategist
    The Regression of Nuclear Policy

    Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar    ·   03 May, 2018    ·    #5462    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Contemporary trends positing the reversibility of a nuclear exchange presupposes that the antagonists are able to understand mutual aims, objectives and have unimpeachable knowledge of boundaries within which the conflict is to be played out. In t...
  • Between Sanctions and Diplomacy: North Korea's Balancing Act
    Shivani Singh    ·   30 Apr, 2018    ·    #5461    ·    Commentary    
    The possibility of bilateral negotiations between North Korea and the US is a sign of relief after months of prevailing tensions in the Korean Peninsula. Following a long trajectory of strained relations between North Korea and the West, North Kor...
  • The Chabahar Port Project and Afghanistan’s Alternative Approach to Trade
    Jawad Torabi    ·   19 Apr, 2018    ·    #5460    ·    Commentary    
    Historically, and given the tensions in bilateral relations, dependence on the Pakistani market and trade routes has been a point of vulnerability for Afghanistan, a landlocked country. To overcome this vulnerability, Kabul has begun looking fo...
  • The Nuclear Consequences of Brexit
    Arushi Vig    ·   19 Apr, 2018    ·    #5459    ·    Commentary    
    After the 2016 Brexit verdict, one area of several areas of concern is nuclear energy. The British civil nuclear programme was meshed with Euratom since the UK's inclusion in the EU in 1973. One consequence of Brexit is Prime Minister Theresa May...
  • Trump’s Tariffs and a Looming Trade War: India's Stakes
    Ayan Tewari    ·   17 Apr, 2018    ·    #5458    ·    Commentary    
    As US President Donald Trump imposes steel and aluminium tariffs on most countries, India is in a unique position to capitalise on the situation. Trump...
  • Maritime Matters
    New Technologies Demand New Laws and Ethics

    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   16 Apr, 2018    ·    #5457    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) met in Geneva earlier this month and emphasised the critical necessity to ban "fully autonomous weapon systems." They urged states to move towards negotiating a leg...
  • East Asia Compass
    Regional Stability and Japan's Irresponsible Political Gambit

    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   06 Apr, 2018    ·    #5456    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    It is a critical time for the North Korean nuclear and missile issue, and South Korea, the US and other stakeholder states have accorded it their highest priority. Japan, however, is focusing its primary attention on the abduction of its citizens ...
  • Maritime Matters
    Game-changing Technologies for Future Naval Operations

    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   31 Mar, 2018    ·    #5455    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Two new weapon technologies - Solid State Lasers (SSLs) and Electromagnetic Railgun (EMRG) - can augment ship defence against incoming missiles, high speed projectiles and unmanned vehicles/drones. Experts argue that if these are successfully depl...
  • From Bangladesh to Myanmar: Repatriation of Rohingya Refugees
    Angshuman Choudhury    ·   27 Mar, 2018    ·    #5454    ·    Commentary    
    23 March 2018 marks two months since the first wave of repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh was to begin through a bilateral agreement with Myanmar signed in November 2017.Since then, not a single refugee - of the 6,88,000 new arriv...
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