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  • East Asia Compass
    Is Japan Getting Isolated?
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra.    ·   21 Feb, 2019    ·    #5558    ·    Commentary    
    It has been reported that Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso wanted to meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Munich Security Conference (15-17 February 2019), apparently to give him suggestions for the upcoming second US-North Korea summit ...
  • The Indo-Pacific
    The ‘Quad’: A Strategic Liability for India
    Kushal Sinha.    ·   08 Feb, 2019    ·    #5557    ·    Commentary    
    The January 2019 iteration of the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi featured a panel discussion on the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) during which senior defence officials from India, Australia, the US and Japan put forth their perspectives r ...
  • What Will the China-India Relationship Look Like in 2019?
    Siwei Liu.    ·   08 Feb, 2019    ·    #5555    ·    Commentary    
    Sino-Indian relations in 2018 were generally stable and gradually emerged from the shadow of the Doklam crisis. However, issues that will continue to  affect the ties have not been completely addressed, especially the mutual trust deficit bet ...
  • The Strategist
    Xi’s Disquieting Dream of National Rejuvenation
    Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar.    ·   31 Jan, 2019    ·    #5553    ·    Commentary    
    In the run up to the First World War, Germany pursued a combination of overbearing diplomacy and brinkmanship to achieve policy goals, despite the risk of war. Demanding a review of the international order that would confer on it a dominant polit ...
  • China
    State vs. Students: Why Marxism Troubles Xi Jinping
    Palden Sonam.    ·   29 Jan, 2019    ·    #5549    ·    Commentary    
    In theory, Marxism has for long been the ideological foundation of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) regime. In practice, however, while Marxism is employed as an instrument of Party rule, its principles are not. Under China’s President Xi ...
  • East Asia Compass
    Trump and the China-North Korea Equation
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra.    ·   15 Jan, 2019    ·    #5545    ·    Commentary    
    US President Donald Trump is going to have a second meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in mid-February 2019. The core objective of this meeting is North Korea's denuclearisation, which has remained elusive. Even though it is well-establi ...
  • Strategic Space
    Limited Use of Nuclear Weapons: Political and Military Implications
    Manpreet Sethi.    ·   26 Dec, 2018    ·    #5537    ·    Commentary    
    Among the many things nuclear that 2018 will be remembered for, the rather cavalier statements made by leaders in the US, Russia and North Korea on the utility of nuclear weapons certainly stand out. Indeed, the US Nuclear Posture Review released e ...
  • China: Mass Surveillance and Minority Regions
    Discussion Report.    ·   24 Dec, 2018    ·    #5535    ·    Commentary    
    On 29 November 2018, IPCS hosted a discussion on China: Mass Surveillance and Minority Regions, with Dr Tenzin Tsultrim (Research Fellow, Tibet Policy Institute), Dr Mahesh Ranjan Debata (Director, UGC Area Studies, Centre for Inner Asian Studies ...
  • East Asia Compass
    On the Sidelines of G-20: India's Third Way
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra.    ·   10 Dec, 2018    ·    #5532    ·    Commentary    
    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in several bilateral and multilateral meetings on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Argentina. Such meetings are not unusual. However, this year, two trilateral meetings that PM Modi was a part o ...
  • The Contours of Xi’s Chinese Nationalism
    Palden Sonam.    ·   07 Dec, 2018    ·    #5531    ·    Commentary    
    After China’s President Xi Jinping announced the ‘China Dream of Great National Rejuvenation’, the Communist Party of China (CPC) identified three important stages of development under three different leaderships: the Chinese people “stoo ...
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