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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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China and the Uyghur Issue: Can the New Silk Route Really Help?
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy. · 13 Dec, 2014 · #4774 · Commentary
Today, with the increasing threat of Islamist terrorism due to the rise and reach of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, sections of societies in Central Asia, South Asia, and West Asia are getting increasingly radicalised. Will China succeed in p ...
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Maritime Silk Route
Decoding China's Silk Diplomacy at Sea
Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy. · 11 Dec, 2014 · #4771 · Commentary
China has proposed to revive the centuries-old ‘Silk Road of the Sea’ into a 21st century Maritime Silk Road (MSR). The MSR initiative has a clear strategic purpose and is a helpful channel for the Chinese grand strategy. It aims to sei ...
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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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Voice from America
China's Global Ambition: Need to Emulate Germany
Amit Gupta. · 01 Dec, 2014 · #4761 · Commentary
In 1972, Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong signed the Shanghai communique that resulted in a simple but brilliant bargain between the US and China. The US agreed to recognise China and give up propping up the regime in Taipei as the legitimate governmen ...
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Looking East
India-China: Securitising Water
Wasbir Hussain. · 01 Dec, 2014 · #4760 · Commentary
A day after China commissioned the biggest hydro-power plant in Tibet on 23 November 2014, India named National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval as its Special Representative on the boundary talks with Beijing. This means the boundary dialogue bet ...
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China’s Endgame in Afghanistan
Teshu Singh. · 24 Nov, 2014 · #4756 · Commentary
The US troops are expected to exit from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 but according to a recently signed Bilateral Security Agreement between Afghanistan and the US, the troops will remain until ‘end of 2024 and beyond’. Many Western c ...
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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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China in Afghanistan: Is the Engagement Really a Win-Win?
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy. · 20 Nov, 2014 · #4751 · Commentary
On 28 October, Ashraf Ghani, the newly-elected president of Afghanistan, landed in Beijing, making China the destination of his first international visit after assuming office. The timing and the visit are telling. The West has been attempting to c ...
