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2024 May Witness More Natural Disasters
2023 has ended. It is time for reflection and resolutions: Time to take stock of the past 12 months and to look ahead to the coming year. There is no doubt for anybody that the world is in turmoil. Even Xi Jinping, the guarded Chinese president, recently told some 2,300 delegates at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, ‘We must be prepared...
Is China setting up Debt Traps in Developing Countries?
In December 2019 Deborah Brautigham of John University in New York in the US wrote an interesting paper A Critical Look at Chinese Debt Trap Diplomacy: The Rise of a Meme. The paper delves into depth of the idea which US Vice President Mike Pence publicly warned the developing countries to be aware of the Chinese strategic plan of her...
How closure of diplomatic mission in Lhasa remains Nehru's lesser-known ‘Tibetan’ blunder
Addressing the Parliament, Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently remarked that Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, was responsible for the loss of what is known as Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK): “The problem of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir occurred because of Pandit Nehru. Otherwise, that part would have belonged to Kashmir,”...
For Entrapping the Chinese Military – What the Indian Forces should do next?
Introduction The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is the most aggressive Armed Force in the world today. It is an instrument in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and is not answerable to the Govt1. It gets it directions from the CCP’s Politburo, which are thereafter discussed and endorsed by the Central Military...
What is Politics?
There are many official and unofficial as well as academic and non-academic approaches and formal/informal definitions of politics and its functioning in society. However, as the most universal concept, it can be concluded that politics is simply the ability to direct and administer a state (in ancient Greek – polis or a city-state) or some...