Articles By Bhaskar Roy
Chinese President to Probe Bangladesh
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 13 Oct , 2016
Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to pay an official visit to Bangladesh on October 14. Obviously the red carpet will be rolled out for him in Dhaka. The two countries have maintained...
China Saves Pakistani Terrorist Again
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 08 Oct , 2016
China announced (Oct 01) that it has extended by another three months the “technical hold” on India’s listing of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM) chief, Masood Azhar as an international terrorist in...
Post Uri: Moving For a Coherent Policy towards Pakistan
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 02 Oct , 2016
The Pak-based terrorist attack on the Indian army camp in Uri on September 18, which killed 19 Indian soldiers, has hit a raw nerve in India. This audacious, well planned attack across the LOC...
Pak Terror in Uri-What needs to be done?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 22 Sep , 2016
The Pakistan-based terrorist strike on an Indian army camp in Uri, Kashmir in the early hours of September 18, has put enormous pressure on Prime Minister Modi to retaliate. Seventeen Indian...
Pakistan’s Terrorism: A case of Dangerous Psychological Disorder?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 20 Sep , 2016
Narendra Modi, a sharp critic of Pakistan when he was in the opposition, completely changed his approach when elected an Indian Prime Minister in 2014. The BJP won the elections with a huge...
Myanmar and China: Is Daw Suu Kyi The Pivot?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 30 Aug , 2016
Myanmar’s State Counsellor and head of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has just concluded a five- day (Aug 17-21) official visit to China at the invitation of...
China Maintains Quiet Pressure on India
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 25 Aug , 2016
China continued to exert quiet but sustained pressures on India on the South China Sea issue. Beijing wants New Delhi to endorse its position on UN the International Tribunal award on the South...
India-China Engagement: Disturbing Divergence
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 15 Aug , 2016
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his tenure just over two years ago with a message of goodwill and partnership in development with India’s neighbours, including China. Soon after,...
Dhaka Carnage – A Wake up call for Realism
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 16 Jul , 2016
The siege of the Holey Artisan Café by a group of young Jihadis on July 1 evening was something waiting to happen. Twenty guests dining in this up-market restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic area...
China: Disquiet in the PLA?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 01 Jul , 2016
A recent article in the Peoples’ Liberation Army’s (PLA) flagship newspaper, The Liberation Army Daily (LAD) underscored the point that political correctness supercedes all else. The...
The Unending India-China Dance
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 24 Jun , 2016
India-China relations have come a long way since the 1962 border war, mostly in the positive direction. India has over 4000 Kilometre long border with China, but Beijing maintains it is much...
Bangladesh: Struggle to Reclaim 1971
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 22 May , 2016
On May 11, Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) Bangladesh Amir, Motiur Rehman Nizami was hanged to death. The sentence was carried out following the judgement of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)...
Setback to India’s Pak Policy and the China Factor
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 18 Apr , 2016
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit practically scuttled the progress of the bilateral peace process when he indicated (April 07) in New Delhi that the talks between India and...
China’s Defence Budget 2016: What it spells
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 16 Mar , 2016
On March 5, China declared one of its lowest increase in defence budget since it started modernization under Revolution in Military Affairs (RFA). The increase of 7.6 percent, taking defence...
Indian Home Minister in China: What is the Takeaway?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 16 Dec , 2015
Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to China (November 18 to 23) can be seen as a testing step to see China’s real commitment to earnestly combat terrorism in its entirety. Till now,...
Is Pak Power Centre Losing the Script?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 30 Oct , 2015
When Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif landed in New York for the annual UN General Assembly session, his body language lacked confidence and inspiration. He carried a restricted brief from...
Chinese Nuclear Submarine Surfaces in Colombo
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 22 Nov , 2014
India is being squeezed simultaneously from the land and the sea. We need to await the unveiling of the third dimension—air. Indian experts should be engaged in deciphering air. Would it be...
Reading China on Sino-Indian Border Issue
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 06 Aug , 2013
The Chinese communist leadership has perfected the act of saying things and giving signals, leaving it to the other side to decipher and understand Their internal speeches and documents are...
China’s New Himalayan Thrust
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 03 Feb , 2013
Recent views of some Indian experts studying China are persuading the strategic community that China is very likely to attack India in 2012. This view has apparently begun to influence some in...
China: a new kind of superpower in the making
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 28 Aug , 2012
“The USA can defend its close allies in the Asia-Pacific region. But India cannot depend on the USA to bail it out. Washington has its complex foreign policy objectives whether correct or...