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  • Leadership Change in China: Nature and Implications
    Tshering Chonzom    ·   29 Sep, 2004    ·    #1513    ·    Commentary    
    Any new leadership that comes to power prefers to leave behind a legacy of its own while introducing changes. Does Hu harbour such desires? He had acquired the two top leadership posts, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and...
  • 'Doctors' take Drug Trafficking to New Areas in Eastern India
    Mukul Kumar    ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1512    ·    Commentary    
    Drug trafficking has been a major problem in India's northeast, but this menace now threatens to engulf new areas. What is worse, not only are drugs from the Golden triangle coming into India, some of these routes are now being used to smugg...
  • Proliferation Security Initiative and India
    Reshmi Kazi    ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1511    ·    Commentary    
    The US Secretary of State, General Collin Powell, had emphasized that Washington was looking forward to New Delhi becoming a core member of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) during his March 2004 visit to India. He felt that India coul...
  • Opportunities for MNC's in India's North East
       ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1510    ·    Commentary    
    The industrial landscape in India has been going through a phenomenal change. Entrepreneur-driven and globally networked industrial enterprises are fast becoming the emblems of the new India. India's Northeastern states are also taking steps...
  • End of Power Struggle in China: Rejuvenation of
    Abanti Bhattacharya    ·   28 Sep, 2004    ·    #1509    ·    Commentary    
    Last year Hu Jintao's leadership ushered in a new diplomacy with the formulation of "peaceful rise" to describe China's emergence and its independent peace policy. This concept  surfaced at the Boao Forum for Asia annual c...
  • Harnessing the Troubled Waters: Sethusamudram Canal Project
    N Manoharan    ·   26 Sep, 2004    ·    #1508    ·    Commentary    
    Why India does not have a continuous navigable route within its own territorial waters? Why should ships from Chennai to Tuticorin or Kolkotta to Mumbai circumnavigate Sri Lanka? The single answer is: absence of deep water connectivity between Pal...
  • Hu Jintao's New Uniform: What's the Message for Taiwan?
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   26 Sep, 2004    ·    #1507    ·    Commentary    
    At the recently concluded session of the fourth plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Jiang Zemin proposed that Hu Jintao take over the Central Military Commission CMC) chairmanship from him, saying that the latter...
  • Indo- Bangladesh relations: Stuck in the muddle
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   24 Sep, 2004    ·    #1506    ·    Commentary    
      Nothing significant was expected to emerge from the three day-long Indo-Bangladesh Home Secretary level dialogue in Dhaka between 15-17 September 2004. Given the mutual distrust that continues, this meeting was a fruitless exercise s...
  • India-Pakistan Composite Dialogue 2004: A Status Report
    N Manoharan    ·   22 Sep, 2004    ·    #1505    ·    Commentary    
            The first round of talks on the Composite Dialogue between India and Pakistan culminated with the Foreign Ministers’ meeting in New Delhi on 5-6 Septe...
  • Nepal Media Survey (1-31 August 2004)
    P G Rajamohan    ·   22 Sep, 2004    ·    #1504    ·    Commentary    
    Kathmandu Under Threat The Himal Khabarpatrika (31 July-15 August) in its report said that the Maoist strategy to strangle Kathmandu with a military buildup in the surrounding districts has suffered setbacks, because of the increased effica...
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