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  • IPCS Debate
    China and Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ): Cold Confrontation with the US?
    Chintamani Mahapatra.    ·   10 Dec, 2013    ·    #4213    ·    Commentary    
    In recent years, Asia-Pacific region has caught global attention more for periodic political upheavals than for its economic dynamism. Most of the political turmoil, significantly, has been caused by the fastest growing economy—the people&rsq ...
  • China: First Stealth Drone
    Angana Guha Roy.    ·   09 Dec, 2013    ·    #4212    ·    Commentary    
    The test flight of China’s first stealth drone, Lijan, in November 2013, makes China leap from drones to combat drones. It demonstrates China’s enormous military expenditure towards building a world class level of military power. Lijan& ...
  • Japan’s Revised Defence Posture in 2013: An Assessment
    Angana Guha Roy.    ·   30 Nov, 2013    ·    #4205    ·    Commentary    
    The report recently published by Japan’s Defence Posture Review Commission projects an expected shift in Japan’s upcoming Defence Programme Guidelines, slated to be out by the end of this year. It points out the changing security enviro ...
  • China and East China Sea: Air Defence Zone and Brinkmanship
    Rukmani Gupta.    ·   26 Nov, 2013    ·    #4191    ·    Commentary    
    China’s announcement of a new air defense zone in the East China Sea is a dangerous move towards brinkmanship in territorial disputes in the region. Aimed at “safeguarding state sovereignty, territorial land and air security and maintai ...
  • China: Bo Xilai Inspires a New Party?
    Namrata Hasija.    ·   14 Nov, 2013    ·    #4177    ·    Commentary    
    On 6 November 2013, a new political party was formed in China. Named Zhi Xian, the party was founded by Wang Zheng, an associate Professor of International Trade at the Beijing Institute of Economics and Management. It consists of supporters of Chi ...
  • Responsibility to Protect: China’s Version
    Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee.    ·   14 Nov, 2013    ·    #4176    ·    Commentary    
    Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was accepted as a global norm at the World Summit Conference held at the United Nations in 2005. The Outcome Document of the Conference in paragraphs 138 and 139 accepted that all states have the responsibility to pr ...
  • IPCS Special Commentary
    China: Document No. 9 and the New Propaganda Regime
    Jayadeva Ranade.    ·   14 Nov, 2013    ·    #4175    ·    Commentary    
    Upset by the apparent indiscipline in the country’s media and cultural space over the past couple of years, where ideas viewed as seeming to challenge the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s authority were being openly aired, the new CCP le ...
  • BCIM Economic Corridor: A Giant Step towards Integration
    Harun ur Rashid.    ·   12 Nov, 2013    ·    #4172    ·    Commentary    
    Lord Dalhousie, India’s Governor General from 1848 to 1856, once dreamed of a ‘route’ in South Asia – a railway line from Singapore to Constantinople and beyond, with a branch track meandering up to Lhasa (Tibet). Another Go ...
  • China’s NGO Sector: Reality or Illusion?
    Namrata Hasija.    ·   04 Nov, 2013    ·    #4163    ·    Commentary    
    Post the reform era in 1978, the NGO sector in China mushroomed greatly. According to the official statistics of the Ministry of Civil Society, the number of NGOs rose from 6,000 before 1978, to 186,000 by 2006. Private NGOs that had previously bee ...
  • India & China: An Assessment of October 2013 Agreements
    An Overview of Contemporary Issues and Relations
    Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee.    ·   31 Oct, 2013    ·    #4157    ·    Commentary    
    History will acknowledge the Year 2013 as a good one for India-China relations. That this was during the last phase of the UPA II rule in India and when the Government was not enjoying a particularly good year domestically, should add to the credit ...
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