Articles By Dr Monika Chansoria
China’s Farce on the Verisimilitude of Hong Kong’s “Autonomy”
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 06 Jul , 2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping is back to doing what he does best – rule with an armed iron fist in the name of development. The location and occasion for the latest diktat this time being Hong...
Xi Jinping Targets China’s Academia, Social Media: Orders Rigid...
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Date: 23 Dec , 2016
China seems to be witnessing a phase, that of wresting back absolute control of academia and social media, primarily through means of reasserting ideological control wherein liberalism,...
China Links India’s NSG Prospects with Stand on South China Sea
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 17 Aug , 2016
Sensing the direction of renewed round two of negotiations over India’s Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) membership bid, a Xinhua statement heeds to the probability that “… the door for...
Cracks Emerge in China's Great Wall
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Date: 08 Apr , 2016
The writing on the Chinese Great Wall suggests that Xi Jinping will continue to remain at the helm of affairs even as the next scheduled term of the government comes up for “renewal” in 2017....
China’s Cult called Xi Jinping
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 01 Dec , 2015
November 2015 marks three years since Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) took over the reins of power by assuming office of the Party Commission in November 2012. At that point, it was...
BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile : Cementing Deterrence
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 May , 2014
With the Indian Army successfully test firing an advanced version of the 290 km-range supersonic cruise missile BrahMos in April 2014, India has displayed its continuing advancement towards...
China's arms sales to Pakistan unsettling South Asian security
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 19 Apr , 2013
Underscoring its primacy as Pakistan’s primary benefactor in the realm of arms transfers, China’s recent upward swing in conventional arms sales to Islamabad has ruffled feathers as far as...
India-Iran Defence Cooperation
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 17 Feb , 2012
As Asian Nations work towards integrating familiar areas of mutual interests, defence cooperation by and large, serves as a significant tool that complements diplomatic enterprise. Collaboration...
Trends in China's South Asia Policy
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 08 Apr , 2011
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to India and thereafter to Pakistan in December 2010 can be ascribed to as being a ‘withering’ one as far as India is concerned and an ‘all-weather’...
China's brazen assertiveness
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jan , 2011
The irritants in the Sino-Indian relationship have raised its fangs yet again barely a month after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao concluded his visit to India. The People’s Republic of China (PRC)...
Role of China as Pakistan's nuclear and missile patron
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 15 Nov , 2010
As fighting intensifies in the Swat Valley and other tribal regions in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, the worsening security situation in the Af–Pak region coupled with the seeming...