COMMENTARIES
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US, China and Iran: A Balancing Act
Kimberley Anne Nazareth · 17 Sep, 2015 · #4913 · Commentary
What impact will the nuclear agreement signed between Iran and P5+1 countries have on US-China and Iran-China relations? The implications for future relations between the US and Iran as well as US and West Asia are complex. To add to this, what ...
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The Strategist
Jihadi Aggression and Nuclear Deterrence
Vijay Shankar · 15 Sep, 2015 · #4912 · Commentary · Column
Pakistan’s use of terror organisations as a tool of State policy to wage unconventional war against India (Christine Fair, Fighting to the End) has perverse consequences that link sub-conventional warfare with nuclear escalation. This biza...
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IPCS Discussion
China's Continental Strategy Over the Next Twenty Years
Report · 09 Sep, 2015 · #4911 · Commentary
• Speaker: Eric B Brown, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, DC
• Chair: Maj Gen (Retd) Dipankar Banerjee, Mentor, IPCS
The US’ foreign policy dilemmas have much in common with India’s concerns regard...
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Dateline Colombo
Sri Lanka: Moving Towards a Higher Collective Outcome
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 08 Sep, 2015 · #4910 · Commentary · Column
"Don’t think the enemies are weak as there are pro-Eelam forces on one hand while forces belonging to the last regime are also waiting to sabotage the destiny of the national government,” Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisen...
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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...
