Articles By VBN Ram
Various ways in which Beijing, Washington and Islamabad Impact India
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2016
Imagine a virtually inconceivable, yet an ideal scenario in which China dissuades Pakistan from indulging in acts detrimental to India, Pakistan, in such a situation will be completely at sea...
Xi Jinping “the Core” of CPC
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2016
One of dictionary meanings of the word “core“- is the tough central part of a fruit. Ideally, this is exactly how China’s General Secretary of the Communist Party (CPC)- President Xi Jinping...
Russian withdrawal from Syria: Not a Surprise
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unexpected announcement on March 14, 2016 to the effect that Moscow would withdraw its forces in Syria since the main objectives of its intervention in Syria...
Why India is not learning from Israel?
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2016
Besides desirous illegal immigrants there are others wishing to infiltrate into the United States from Mexico to unsettle the US authorities, so as to ensure a continual exodus of immigrants to...
Iran’s Nuclear Accord and its Implications
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jan , 2016
Ironically , those very nations , which are now patting their backs (most notably the US; China and Russia) for making Iran sign the P5+1 –Iran nuclear accord- are the ones, responsible for...
Can Beijing really rein in North Korea?
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2016
The political insanity of the dynastic leadership of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea), should normally have been a source of considerable embarrassment to Beijing, but...
North Korea’s Hydrogen Bomb is a challenge to Universal Disarmament
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jan , 2016
Blackmail Diplomacy in the wake of Strategic Patience: Pyongyang practices blackmail diplomacy in relation to not merely the US, but what the former regards as its confidant and close buddy...
US drawdown from Afghanistan and Its Implications
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 20 Mar , 2015
Former Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf made a far-fetched and sweeping generalisation when he stated, ‘The worst blunder for the US would be to quit Afghanistan without winning, in...
Iran’s Nuclear Programme makes many nations jittery
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Mar , 2015
During the past decades, the US had been unswervingly steadfast in its belief that Iran had been an “axis of evil” – one which had stubbornly resisted to honour its obligations under the...
India’s Confidante in the Maldives is being ill treated, what should New...
By: VBN Ram | Date: 03 Mar , 2015
There is barely any doubt that India, or for that matter any nation can successfully manoeuvre political intrigues within neighbouring countries (of the type, now occurring in the Maldives) to its...
Sri Lanka will maintain equidistance between neighbours
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Feb , 2015
Will Maitripala Srisena’s assumption of Office as the Sri Lankan president bring in a transformational ascendancy in bilateral ties? Though I am an optimist, I for one, would like to keep my...
US fails to stabilise a disturbed West Asia
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 17 Nov , 2014
Over the decades, US policy across West Asia has been devoid of vision and foresight. President Obama has recently conceded that his administration does not have a strategy to combat the ISIS....