COMMENTARIES
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East Asia Compass
China-South Korea Ties: Implications for the US Pivot to Asia
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 08 Sep, 2015 · #4909 · Commentary · Column
A Victory Day Parade in Beijing was organised on 3 September 2015 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, in which one of the most important spectacles was the top leaders of China, Russia and South Korea waving together ...
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Looking East
China: ‘Peaceful’ Display of Military Might
Wasbir Hussain · 07 Sep, 2015 · #4908 · Commentary · Column
On 3 September 2015, China displayed its massive military might in a parade unseen in recent years. It is for the first time since 1949 that so many senior military officers of the rank of generals had actually taken part in such a parade. Weari...
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National Security Advisor Talks
India-Pakistan: Contextualising the Cancelled Talks Debacle
Raphaela Kormoll · 28 Aug, 2015 · #4907 · Commentary
The now cancelled talks between the National Security Advisors (NSA) of India and Pakistan, originally scheduled for 23-24 August 2015, would have been the first meeting between the two wherein the public was duly apprised in advance.
Back-ch...
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China-Japan
China's ECS Oil Fields: Widening the Japan-China Gulf
Pranamita Baruah · 17 Aug, 2015 · #4906 · Commentary
Japan and China have long been uneasy neighbours in East Asia due to their long drawn disputes over historical and territorial issues. Until 2010, their territorial dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea was just a minor i...
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Dateline Colombo
The Importance of Electing the Best to our Nation's Parliament
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 11 Aug, 2015 · #4905 · Commentary · Column
“People who live in Sri Lanka are first and foremost Sri Lankans, then we have our race and religion, which is something given to us at birth.”
- Lakshman Kadirgamar
On 17 August, Sri Lankans will elect their new parl...
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Looking East
Naga Peace Accord: Need to Reserve Euphoria
Wasbir Hussain · 04 Aug, 2015 · #4904 · Commentary · Column
The signing of the ‘framework agreement’ between the Government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland’s Isak-Muivah faction (NSCN-IM) in New Delhi on 3 August 2015 is certainly a landmark development because i...
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East Asia Compass
Many ‘Pivots to Asia’: What Does It Mean For Regional Stability?
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 03 Aug, 2015 · #4903 · Commentary · Column
The US President Barack Obama announced his new strategy for the Asia-Pacific - ‘pivot to Asia’ - in 2011. It was also called ‘strategic rebalancing’ which emphasised that the US was ‘here to stay’ to and it w...
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Voice from America
The Iran Deal: Is it Hard to Resist?
Amit Gupta · 27 Jul, 2015 · #4902 · Commentary
After much pain and negotiation, the P5+1 and Iran have reached a nuclear deal. Inevitably, the Republicans, along with a set of strange bedfellows consisting of Israel, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, and even some Democrats, are questioni...
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Eulogy
PR Chari: Scholar, Gentleman, Institution Builder
Amit Gupta · 26 Jul, 2015 · #4901 · Commentary
Mr. P.R. Chari, who passed away on July 24, 2015, was a rare person in New Delhi’s intellectual circles. Although a career bureaucrat, he successfully transitioned to becoming a first rate scholar and, along with Major General (Retd....
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Looking East
Myanmar Polls: Test for Suu Kyi and Democracy
Wasbir Hussain · 17 Jul, 2015 · #4900 · Commentary · Column
It is time for fresh national elections in Myanmar. The much-hyped polls to the 664-member Parliament - finally fixed for 8 November 2015 - will be a test for both democracy in the former pariah state ruled by a military dictatorship as well as ...
