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Six New Places in Arunachal Pradesh Claimed by China
China has announced ‘official standardised’ names for six places in Arunachal Pradesh. It is a childish reaction to the Dalai Lama’s visit to the State earlier this month. The Chinese media said that Beijing’s objective was to reaffirm China’s claim over Arunachal, ‘South Tibet’ for the Chinese. A few days earlier, Beijing had started naming...
Myanmar's Rohingya crisis spells grave security complexities for India
The Rohingya crisis which has communal and security overtones in Myanmar has immense strategic implications for India. The Rohingyas are not recognised as citizens in Myanmar under its 1982 Citizenship Act and are thus outside the ambit of legal protection in the country. Clashes between Rohingyas and non-Rohingyas have become a recurrent...
The Xinjiang Takeover: China’s Master-Stroke
By taking over Xinjiang, communist China controlled the western borders of the Middle Kingdom, access trade with Central Asia, block any possibility of Soviet advance, and come in contact with Indian frontiers Xinjiang, China’s western province, has often been in the news during the last few months, mainly due to instability of the region and...
Deciphering the Current State of India-Russia Relations
India and the Russian Federation’s strategic partnership and seventy-years of establishment of diplomatic relations, 1947-2017, have served as a historic benchmark in global peace and security. India and Russia, as strategic and special partners, have reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate bilaterally and also at various international...
In the Year 2047
First Published in www.invinciblemilitary.org General of the Army (GA) Camilla Torres was packing her office. As a five-star general, her staff would do this for her, but she insisted on doing it herself, just as she always had from the time she was a young lieutenant. She found that packing her own mementoes promoted purification and growth....