Articles in Geopolitics
Tibet: The Panikkar Factor
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 04 Mar , 2011
One of the most important factors in the relation between Tibet and the Government of India was the appointment of K.M. Panikkar as the Ambassador to ‘two Chinas’. It is unusual that the...
Dark Clouds over Pakistan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2011
It all began in June 2009. Asia Bibi, a farm hand from the village of Ittan Wali in Sheikhupura District of the Punjab province in Pakistan, was asked to fetch water. Bibi, whose is the only...
Winds of hatred continue to sweep across Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2011
At a time when winds of change have been sweeping across many Islamic countries with calls for greater freedom and democracy, winds of hatred continue to sweep across Pakistan. Pakistan, which...
To overlook reality would be stupid
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2011
While China is free to believe that it has done nothing to raise hackles around the world, more so in its neighbourhood, that is far from the truth. It makes little sense for Beijing to feign...
Repeated Calls for Jasmine Strolls in China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2011
Repeated calls for “Jasmine Strolls” in Chinese cities, including Beijing, emanating from overseas Chinese web sites have added to the nervousness of the Chinese authorities. A Jasmine Stroll is...
India and the Indian Ocean
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2011
The main security threats to Indian interests in the Indian Ocean area arise from three factors—firstly, the gradual erosion of the Indian political influence in the area; secondly, the increase...
J&K: The complete surrender?
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2011
The recent spate of scams has so exhausted the fund of public outrage, that the die-hard votaries of peace with Pakistan (at any cost) have found the time opportune to shamelessly resile from...
Will China cross the Rubicon of its history?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2011
The seriousness with which China has been viewing the dangers of a new revolution in China inspired by the people’s uprising in Egypt would be evident from the number of high-level...
Chinese and Korean companies attacked by Libyan protesters
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2011
Resentment over the comfortable life-style of foreigners working in Libyan projects as compared to the poverty of Libyan workers seems to be playing a role in the current turmoil in Libya. This...
Uncle Red adds to China's nervousness
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2011
“Go, go, go! Forge on ahead. “The awakened lion is roaring. “It will smash corruption, and bury the dictatorship. “Mighty Egypt has no room for clowns. “With no equality or human rights,...
India-China Relations: Some Reflections
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 21 Feb , 2011
India’s China policy has been marked by friendship, sentimentalism, fear, diffidence, brinksmanship, wishful thinking and engagement. This mixture of attitudes reflects the complexity of the...
Net-Spawn Campaign Unnerves Beijing
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Feb , 2011
Anti-Chinese Communist Party dissidents based abroad have unleashed a web campaign against the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In hundreds of messages directed to the Chinese...
Civil War in Libya: Gaddafi uses Pak & BD Mercenaries?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Feb , 2011
Basic Data (From Bbc) Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has led since 1969 Population 6.5m; land area 1.77m sq km Population with median age of 24.2, and a literacy rate of 88% Gross national income per...
Bahrain: A Nervous Watch
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Feb , 2011
BASIC DATA (From BBC) King Hamad, 61, a Sunni, has been in power since 1999 Population 800,000 (70 per cent Shias); land area 717 sq km, or 100 times smaller than the Irish Republic Ranks 48...
Sino-Indian border imbroglio
By: Lt Gen MC Bhandari | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 19 Feb , 2011
China launched full scale invasion on India in 1962. In fact, Chinese invasion had commenced way back in 1906 when it maneuvered and succeeded in concluding the 1906 Convention in Calcutta. In...
China 'outsources' its war against India
By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2011
While India keeps dithering in her resolve to tackle China firmly, her Northern neighbor has been steadfastly moving towards making India a non-entity in global affairs. China has adopted a no...
Himalayan Rivers: Geopolitics and Strategic Perspectives
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 17 Feb , 2011
On October 7, 1950 the PLA’s Second Field Army marched into Eastern Tibet to ‘liberate’ the Roof of the World. Several factors can explain this move. A few days after the beginning of the...
Egypt: As seen from nervous Beijing
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Feb , 2011
In its issue of February 14, 2011, the “Global Times” of Beijing, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has come out with a commentary on the success of the Revolution in Egypt. It...
Revolt in the New Dominion
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 24.3 Jul-Sep 2009 | Date: 14 Feb , 2011
It was a few days only after I had written an article on the instability of the situation in China that the news flashed that in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang (The New Dominion in Chinese),...
Obama's next big problem is Pakistan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Feb , 2011
After Egypt, things are rapidly getting out of control for the United States in Pakistan, where , after the Raymond Davis Incident the US has threatened to end Diplomatic Relations with...