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Strategic Space
Stabilising Deterrence: Doctrines Score Over Numbers
Manpreet Sethi. · 22 Aug, 2017 · #5342 · Commentary
In answer to the criticism from non-nuclear weapon states on lack of movement towards nuclear disarmament by the nuclear weapon states, the latter often highlight the reductions in their stockpiles as one step showcasing their commitment to this ob ...
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The Strategist
A Pug, a Terrier and the Doklam Stand Off
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar. · 07 Aug, 2017 · #5335 · Commentary
William Moorcroft, a British veterinary surgeon of the East India Company, set off in 1816 on an expedition to the Kailas region of Tibet to search for that breed of Central Asian horses that would revitalise the blood stock of the Company’s ...
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Strategic Space
Chinese Responsibility on DPRK: No ‘Theory’, Immutable Reality
Manpreet Sethi. · 19 Jul, 2017 · #5331 · Commentary
Recent videos from North Korea - or Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - show their Supreme Commander of the Army, Kim Jong-un, chuckling away as he watches his country’s missile launches. Indeed with the recent test of the clai ...
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IPCS Discussion
India-China-Nepal Trilateralism
Report. · 17 Jul, 2017 · #5328 · Commentary
IPCS report on ‘India-China-Nepal Trilateralism’, a round-table held on 1 June 2017.
China-India-Nepal Trade and Transit Links
Chen Xiaochen
Director General, Department of International Studies, Chongyang Institute ...
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Global Warming-Induced Migration: An International Convention Needed
John Schabedoth. · 14 Jul, 2017 · #5326 · Commentary
In recent years, reports on the first global warming-induced migration into New Zealand have accumulated. Two of the most prominent cases involved concerned nationals of the island states of Kiribati and Tuvalu applying for refugee status in New Ze ...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
India-Myanmar: Fast-tracking the Eastward Push
Angshuman Choudhury. · 11 Jul, 2017 · #5323 · Commentary
Bilateral relations between India and Myanmar have historically been uneven and contingent on specific leadership approaches on both sides. Under India’s incumbent Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi, this complex relationship has seen renewed ...
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China's Grand strategy
China’s Maritime Strategy in the South China Sea
Tapan Bharadwaj. · 05 Jul, 2017 · #5319 · Commentary
The maritime dimension is one of the most important elements in the making of China’s grand strategy in the Indo-Pacific region. China’s maritime strategy has primarily three components directed towards three geographical areas:
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Seizing ‘The Belt and Road’ Opportunity: Challenges for Nepal
Pramod Jaiswal. · 23 Jun, 2017 · #5307 · Commentary
Nepal signed China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) before the BRI Summit. During the BRI summit held in Beijing, the Nepalese Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport proposed to the Chinese Transport Minister to link Nepal’s ...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
India-China Relations: A Mixed Bag
TCA Rangachari. · 19 Jun, 2017 · #5301 · Commentary
“The prospects of the 21st century becoming the Asian century will depend in large measure on what India and China achieve individually and what we do together.”
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Dateline Colombo
Steering Co-operation Across Oceans
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera. · 15 May, 2017 · #5284 · Commentary
“We should not develop a habit of retreating to the harbour whenever we encounter a storm, for this will never get us to the other side of the ocean.”
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