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Eagle Eye
US-China Cold Confrontation: New Paradigm of Asian Security
Chintamani Mahapatra. · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4333 · Commentary
The US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent visit to China exemplified a complex dynamics of relations between the existing superpower and an aspiring one.
The US’ “Manifest Destiny” and China’s “Middle Kingdom ...
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The Strategist
India-Pakistan-China: Nuclear Policy and Deterrence Stability
Vijay Shankar. · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4331 · Commentary
“Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Call life:………behind, lurk Fear
And Hope…”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Cold War Mantra
In September 1950, responding to a directive from the President of the ...
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Assessing Japan-India Relations: A Japanese Perspective
Tomoko Kiyota. · 07 Mar, 2014 · #4329 · Commentary
Since the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori visited New Delhi in August 2000, Japan-India relations have changed dramatically. While only four Japanese Prime Ministers visited India from 1957 till 1999, six Japanese Prime Ministers and over fort ...
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Assessing Japan-India Relations: An Indian Perspective
Shamshad A Khan. · 07 Mar, 2014 · #4328 · Commentary
While it would be difficult to not account for the China factor in Indian strategic thinking especially with regard to the 2006 India-Japan global and strategic partnership, to assume that China is the prime reason for India and Japan’s ...
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Kunming Attack and Ethnic Tensions
Challenges to the ‘Chinese Nation’ Dream
Geeta Kochhar. · 06 Mar, 2014 · #4326 · Commentary
On a March 1, 2014, a group of men launched a deadly knife attack on people at the Kunming Railway station in China, killing 33 people and injuring over 130.. On October 28, 2013, an SUV slammed into a crowd killing two people and injuring 40. Both ...
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Maritime Matters
Increasing Maritime Competition: IORA, IONS, Milan and the Indian Ocean Networks
Vijay Sakhuja. · 03 Mar, 2014 · #4320 · Commentary
The Indian Ocean rim countries have establishment a number of multilateral maritime mechanisms to address non-traditional security threats and challenges confronting the region. The Indian Ocean Rim-Association of Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC), re ...
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Himalayan Frontier
Chinese Inroads to Nepal
Pramod Jaiswal. · 03 Mar, 2014 · #4319 · Commentary
Over the recent months, China, in an attempt to strengthen its relations with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), has been taking efforts to build a close-knit strategic alliance with Nepal. At a meeting with a visiting de ...
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Indian Ocean Region
The Malabar Exercises: India, Japan and the US
Teshu Singh. · 31 Jan, 2014 · #4282 · Commentary
When the Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera visited India in the first week of January, an invitation to partake in the Malabar Exercise 2014 was extended to the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force. The exercise would be held sometime after the ...
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China, Myanmar, and the Myitsone Dam: Uncertain Future
Aparupa Bhattacherjee. · 31 Jan, 2014 · #4281 · Commentary
The unresolved status of the presently-suspended Myitsone Dam project in Myanmar’s Kachin state has the potential to derail Beijing-Yangon bilateral relations. How did this come to be? And more importantly, what are the implications of fallou ...
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Strategic Space
US, China and the South Asian Nuclear Construct
Manpreet Sethi. · 17 Feb, 2014 · #4311 · Commentary
Most Western writings/conferences on India-Pakistan nuclear deterrence tend to try and understand this dyad in a narrow regional box of South Asia. This is not only stifling and restricting but also not a useful formulation. Rather, the India-Pakista ...
