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BOOK REVIEW: 'Sino-India and Sino-South Korean Relations'
India-South Korea: Non-Partners in Countering China
Skand Tayal. · 17 Dec, 2014 · #4782 · Commentary
The steady rise of China is a reality. Its growing economic, military and consequent strategic strengths are subjects of research, analysis and debate and also of concern, particularly for China’s neighbours.
There is already a cons ...
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The Strategist
Maritime Combat Power in the Indo-Pacific
Vijay Shankar. · 08 Dec, 2014 · #4766 · Commentary
Instantaneous Intimidation
Both Julian Corbett and Admiral of the Fleet Sergei Goroshkov had an astute perspective of the importance of a theory for the application of Combat Power. Theory, as Julian Corbett put it, “…be regarded ...
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East Asia Compass
Abe-Jinping Summit Meet: A Thaw in China-Japan Relations?
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 01 Dec, 2014 · #4763 · Commentary
After almost two years of the election of Shinzo Abe as the Prime Minister of Japan, he and and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time at a summit meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gathering in Beiji ...
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Nuke Street
US-Russia and Global Nuclear Security: Under a Frosty Spell?
Sheel kant Sharma. · 20 Nov, 2014 · #4752 · Commentary
It is twenty years since acute concern about unauthorised and malevolent access to sensitive nuclear material and radioactive substances, particularly from successor states to the former Soviet Union, roused the international community in 1994. Nuc ...
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Asia and the Seas: Looking Back to Look Forward
Vijay Sakhuja. · 19 Nov, 2014 · #4746 · Commentary
Three Asian powers – China, India and Indonesia – have, in recent times, attempted to project their power potential by recalling their maritime histories. China has highlighted the Maritime Silk Road (MSR) that has foundations in the an ...
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East Asia Compass
South Korea's Foreign Policy: More Rhetoric, Less Content?
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 03 Nov, 2014 · #4723 · Commentary
South Korea’s foreign relations especially in East Asia are in a state of impasse under the current President Park Geun-hye. During the last President Lee Myung-bak, it was clear that South Korea gave priority to its alliance with the US and ...
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North Korea: Kim Jong-un and Myth Making
Ruhee Neog. · 22 Oct, 2014 · #4711 · Commentary
The Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, disappeared from the public eye for six weeks beginning September 2014, which created an uproar in the international community. Apparently, regular sightings of Jong-un going about his usual business ...
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China and Japan: Will the Twain Never Meet?
Srikanth Kondapalli. · 20 Oct, 2014 · #4703 · Commentary
With prospects for a bilateral meeting between Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and China’s President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit at Beijing in November brightening, the East Asian security situation may ...
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Indo-Pacific
The ASEAN's Centrality in the Indo-Pacific Region
Shankari Sundararaman. · 20 Oct, 2014 · #4700 · Commentary
Over nearly a decade, the concept of the Indo-Pacific has been gaining ground as a term that gives credence to a strategic perspective rather than a well-defined geographic entity. When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke about the `confluence ...
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East Asia Compass
India in East Asia: Modi’s Three Summit Meets
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 06 Oct, 2014 · #4683 · Commentary
In September 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had summit meets with the leaders of Japan, China and the US. The summit meets initiated the unfolding of India’s policy towards the East Asian region. By choosing Japan as his first dest ...
