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BRICS: China’s End-Game
Teshu Singh. · 31 Jul, 2014 · #4587 · Commentary
The recently held BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit (14-16 July 2014) is representative of developing countries and forty per cent of the world's population. It is also a successful non-Western international organisa ...
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US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue: Lessons for India
Teshu Singh. · 25 Jul, 2014 · #4581 · Commentary
The Sixth US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) was held in Beijing from 9-10 July 2014, amid growing tension between the US and China over the maritime disputes of the South China and the East China Seas. This commentary highlights t ...
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India-China: Energy Competition in Nepal
Prachi Aggarwal. · 25 Jul, 2014 · #4580 · Commentary
After Bhutan, Nepal is now preparing itself for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit. In recent times, a ‘trust deficit’ seems to have developed between India and Nepal, with a gradual erosion of the bonhomie and generosity that t ...
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India: XVII Mountain Corps
Amit Saksena. · 23 Jul, 2014 · #4573 · Commentary
On 1 January 2014, the flag of the newly sanctioned XVII Corps was hoisted at its interim headquarters in Ranchi, which kick-started the process of fielding a credible Indian deterrent force on the Northeastern front, from Arunachal Pradesh to Ladakh ...
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BRICS Summit and India-China Relations
Geeta Kochhar. · 21 Jul, 2014 · #4571 · Commentary
The 6th BRICS summit, a conglomerate of world’s top five emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa was held at Fortaleza, Brazil, in July 2014. With heightened expectations, the summit is seen as to have delive ...
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The Strategist
Strife on the Global Commons
Vijay Shankar. · 14 Jul, 2014 · #4556 · Commentary
The run up to the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) was marked by a debate held in Sparta amongst the Peloponnesian allies to determine whether war against the aggressive seapower Athens and the maritime Delian League was to be waged. The leader ...
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The Henderson Brooks Report
India-China 1962 War: An Open Secret
Wasbir Hussain. · 11 Jul, 2014 · #4554 · Commentary
Fifty two years after India suffered an ignominious defeat at the hands of the Chinese along the Himalayan heights in the present Arunachal Pradesh sector, one is amazed at the attempts by successive Governments in New Delhi to keep the war report ...
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East Asia Compass
China-South Korea: Changing Dynamics of Regional Politics
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra. · 07 Jul, 2014 · #4547 · Commentary
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to South Korea on 3-4 July 2014 is symbolic of a nascent but important change in East Asian political equations. For the first time, a Chinese President visited South Korea before meeting with the ...
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Responses from South and Southeast Asia
China’s Cartographic Aggression
Roomana Hukil. · 04 Jul, 2014 · #4538 · Commentary
On the 60th Anniversary of Panchsheel or the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence between India, Myanmar and China, China released its latest ‘vertical atlas’ that depicts parts of J&K (Aksai Chin), the whole of Arunachal Pradesh ...
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The Case for a South Asian Shared Rivers Commission
India, China and the MoU on Brahmaputra
Wasbir Hussain. · 03 Jul, 2014 · #4544 · Commentary
India and China signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) during the Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari’s recent five-day visit to Beijing from 26 June– 1 July. One of them was on the ‘flood data’ of the Brahmaputra Rive ...
