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Why the India-China Border Issue Remains Intractable
Anand Benegal. · 18 Jul, 2019 · #5601 · Commentary
Why is
the Sino-Indian border dispute considered intractable in nature? Will it become
more/less resoluble in the near future?
This
commentary examines the conditions for its resolution, derived from past
research on border disputes, bargaini ...
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China in Africa
China's Engagement with Africa: Where Does it Stand?
Anand Benegal. · 28 Jun, 2019 · #5595 · Commentary
China’s engagement with the Africa continent has been analysed to examine a variety
of aspects and a substantial portion of those analyses focus on the dept trap and
resource curse concerns. However, an analysis of Beijing’s multidimensional re ...
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NPT
2019 NPT PrepCom and Article VI: Faultlines, and the Future
Shivani Singh. · 27 Jun, 2019 · #5594 · Commentary
The third and last NPT Preparatory
Committee (PrepCom) Meeting for the 2020 NPT Review Conference (RevCon) was
concluded in New York on 10 May. Though there was a general agreement on
certain outstanding issues, the 11-day meeting ended in a lack ...
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Dateline Colombo
Toward Post-Terror Stability in Sri Lanka
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera. · 17 Jun, 2019 · #5592 · Commentary
A few
weeks ago, a security expert who has studied the so-called Islamic State (IS) rightly
said to this author, that
“Your country was ‘staged’.” While the IS
attempted to take credit for the attacks, they do not appear to have been
dir ...
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East Asia Compass
Whither Indo-Pacific?
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 06 Jun, 2019 · #5591 · Commentary
At the Shangri-La Dialogue in
Singapore this June, the US Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan released
the US Indo-Pacific Strategy Report. The subtitle of the report talks about the
US goals of "preparedness, partnerships and promoting a ...
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The Strategist
Xi and China’s Fourth May Revolution: Can State Control and People’s Empowerment be Reconciled?
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar. · 23 May, 2019 · #5590 · Commentary
Since 1919, the Fourth of
May movement has been evoked by Chinese scholars and the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) as a beacon for independence
and enlightenment. How the array of critical thoughts that the movement
represented will translate ...
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Strategic Space
Pulwama, Balakot, and the Future: How the Chips Stack Up
Manpreet Sethi. · 16 May, 2019 · #5585 · Commentary
For
the time being, the India-Pakistan crisis triggered by the terrorist strike
against the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in February in Pulwama appears
to have stabilised. However, India must have no delusions that such acts of
terr ...
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IPCS Discussion
Korea-India Relations and the Situation on Korean Peninsula
Discussion Report. · 15 May, 2019 · #5584 · Commentary
On 23 April 2019, IPCS hosted H.E. Dr Shin Bong-kil, Ambassador of the
Republic of Korea to India, who spoke on ‘Korea-India Relations and the Situation
on Korean Peninsula’. The interaction was held under the aegis of IPCS’
Ambassador Lectu ...
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East Asia Compass
China’s Strategic Silence on the Hanoi Summit
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 22 Mar, 2019 · #5570 · Commentary
An abrupt end of the
Hanoi summit between the leaders of the US and North Korea on 28 February 2019
was disappointing for many. But for many others, it was unsurprising because the
two parties did not have enough exchanges and understanding at the ...
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Trump-Kim Summit in Hanoi: Optimism Despite Impediments
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 26 Feb, 2019 · #5562 · Commentary
The second US-North Korea summit meet, eight months after the
Singapore Summit, is scheduled to take place in Hanoi on 27-28 February 2019. There
is skepticism regarding the potential outcomes of this meeting, based on three
important factors.
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