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China-Malaysia: Is the Tilt Real?
Aparupa Bhattacharjee. · 15 Oct, 2013 · #4141 · Commentary
Malaysia recently hosted the Chinese President Xi Jinping, who visited on 3 October 2013. This is the first trip made by the president to Southeast Asia since he took office in March 2013. Malaysia was the second destination of this trip, which sta ...
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IPCS Debate
Horsemen of Change: Politics, Economics, Technology and Security
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar. · 10 Oct, 2013 · #4136 · Commentary
In his discourse at the Prem Bhatia Memorial lecture on 11 August 2013, Mr Shyam Saran, a former Foreign Secretary and current chairman of the National Security Advisory Board, noted with some precision that the transformed landscape that we live i ...
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IPCS Debate
India, Nuclear Weapons and ‘Massive Retaliation’: The Impossibility of Limitation?
Ali Ahmed. · 08 Oct, 2013 · #4135 · Commentary
Shyam Saran speaking in his personal capacity, rather than as the current head of the National Security Advisory Board, relies on his association with the evolution of India’s nuclear doctrine to make the case that India would do well to stic ...
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IPCS Debate
Technological Change and Security: Implications for India
PR Chari. · 01 Oct, 2013 · #4130 · Commentary
That technological change is value neutral and can lead to either greater security or insecurity is well known. But the linkage of technological change to a 'cultural time lag' is seldom identified, which is the period required for cultural ...
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The China Rise and J&K
D Suba Chandran. · 16 Sep, 2013 · #4120 · Commentary
Few weeks earlier, the Indian media and the rest of nation was obsessed with what was happening along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. What does China want in J&K? Is China interested in the territory in J&K? Or is it likely to u ...
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Japan and South Korea: Burying the Past?
Rajaram Panda. · 09 Sep, 2013 · #4109 · Commentary
Certain comments made by the United National Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Seoul in the last week of August about the need to have a ‘correct view of the past history’ of Northeast Asia made headlines in Japan and evoked sharp disapp ...
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China: New Urbanisation Plans
Namrata Hasija. · 09 Sep, 2013 · #4108 · Commentary
In March 2011, increasing urbanisation had been noted as part of the Twelfth Five Year Plan by the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee. It is now being reported that the Chinese government has plans to shift 250 million rural residen ...
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India and Regional Cooperation Economic Partnership (RCEP): Challenges and Prospects
Vignesh Ram. · 03 Sep, 2013 · #4107 · Commentary
In the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, regional economies devised various mechanisms including the enhancement of mutual cooperation and understanding amongst themselves to avoid any similar problems in the future. In the years to ...
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China and Myanmar: The Great Game of the Gas Pipeline
Teshu Singh. · 30 Aug, 2013 · #4102 · Commentary
The first phase of a China-Myanmar-South Korea-India gas pipeline venture was started in July 2013. Together, they will explore the resources of ‘Shwe Fields’. The pipeline will start from Kyaukryu port in Rakhine State on the west coas ...
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Japan: The Izumo Warship and Regional Security
Rajaram Panda. · 19 Aug, 2013 · #4092 · Commentary
On 6 August 2013, Japan launched its largest warship since World War II in a fresh demonstration of Tokyo’s steadily expanding naval capabilities. The unveiling of the destroyer — with a conspicuously large flight deck — has drawn ...
