Articles in Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group
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,...
Russia-US Rapprochement: A Strategic Imperative
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 04 Aug , 2016
Russia and United States estranged relationship impinges on global security and stability with China as a ‘revisionist power’ being the major beneficiary of this estrangement and with vested...
India Needs to Fast-Track Securing Andaman & Nicobar Islands against...
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 30 Jul , 2016
China has cast its covetous designs on India’s Andaman & Nicobar Islands evidenced by recent Chinese statements both in New Delhi and in China. Imperatives exist of fast-track securing of these...
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...
Chabahar Tripartite Agreement Signals New Geopolitical Power-Play
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 20 Jun , 2016
The Chabahar Tripartite Agreement signed in Tehran on May 23, 2016 between India, Iran and Afghanistan during PM Modi’s Iran visit signals the dawn of a new power- play though essentially...
Japan and India’s Comparative Approaches to Meet the China Threat
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 29 May , 2016
Japan and India are the twin pillars of Asian security against the overwhelming Asian perceptions of the China Threat emanating from China’s oversized military buildup and China’s...
Did India lose another opportunity to resolve the border? Yes, suggests Dai...
By: Prof BR Deepak | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 18 May , 2016
India and China lost a few opportunities to resolve the border – first during Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai’s India visit in 1960, second during 1979 during Vajpayee’s China visit, and third...
China unmasks its Connivance in Pakistan’s State-Sponsored Terrorism
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 11 Apr , 2016
China once again unmasks its connivance in Pakistan’s state-sponsored terrorism when last month it vetoed in the United Nations a resolution supported by all other Security Council and other...
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...
China cornered, India’s window of opportunity
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 11 Jul , 2013
China being strategically cornered globally in 2013 is a reality and this is likely to continue till such time China does not change its strategic postulations. Therefore this should have...