Geopolitics
China and the Indian Ocean Region
By: Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 21.4 Oct-Dec 2006 | Date: 15 Dec , 2010
The topic for today’s seminar, “China and the Indian Ocean Region” relates to an issue on which there is a dire need for India to focus her attention on very closely. Historically, we have...
US insult to Indian diplomats at airports
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Dec , 2010
Even in the past, there had been instances of humiliating body searches of Indian diplomats and visiting dignitaries at US airports. The controversy over this has assumed serious dimensions...
Tibetan Villagers ‘relocated’ by dam construction
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Dec , 2010
Earlier, I had mentioned that the new dam built by the Chinese near Lhasa. More news on this front: it seems now that some 4000 farmers will have to be ‘relocated’. What is strange in...
Oslo: China coming to terms with reality
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2010
After having waged a high-pressure campaign to enforce a boycott of the Oslo function on December 10 to honour in absentia Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese human rights activist who has been awarded the...
New Delhi must regularly interact with Dalai Lama
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Dec , 2010
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, needs to be complimented for standing firm to China and refusing to be bullied by it into not attending the Oslo function on December 10, 2010, in honour...
IM warns attacks on Hindu holy places
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Dec , 2010
The message dated December 6, 2010, purporting to be from the Indian Mujahideen (IM) indirectly claiming responsibility for the explosion in Varanasi on December 7, 2010, was received by the...
The deluge: will Pakistan submerge or survive?
By: Col Ajay Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 08 Dec , 2010
Nature has a strange way of altering the destiny of men and nations. The great biblical floods gave rise to the Jewish Nation, the terrible famine of Bengal in the 1850s helped provoke the first...
The myths exposed by Wikileaks
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
The confidential cables exchanged between the US State Department and the US diplomatic missions abroad, which have been released by WikiLeaks, expose the following five myths: Firstly, the myth...
Zardari in Sri Lanka: Counter-Balancing India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2010
President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan visited Sri Lanka from November 27 to 30, 2010, at the invitation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Among those who accompanied him were Shah Mehmood...
The Fall of the Dragon
By: Ashish Puntambekar | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 06 Dec , 2010
Why should developments in the American housing / subprime market in 2007 and currently continuing into 2008 be of any interest to the defense analyst ? Well … probably it’s because what’s...
Time to stop appeasing China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2010
The Government of India has not yet indicated its response to the reported pressure from the Chinese Government to boycott the Nobel Peace Prize Award function proposed to be held at Oslo on...
The internal political situation in China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2010
An editorial published on October 15, 2010, by the Communist Party controlled “Global Times” said:“China has changed a lot. In the future it will continue to adopt gradualism to bring...
WikiLeaks and India
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Dec , 2010
WikiLeaks has done it again. The whistle-blowing website has just published hundreds of thousands of confidential State Department cables. These communications apparently reveal the details of...
Wikileaks: The Chinese Shiver
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2010
The Chinese authorities have told their people of the tsunami of documents of the US Government being flooded into the public domain by WikiLeaks. They are surprised that the US Government has...
Wikileaks: Implications of Leakage of US Diplomatic Cables
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
The leakage by WikiLeaks of over 200,000 diplomatic cables exchanged between the US State Department and its diplomatic missions abroad could have serious implications for US diplomacy and for...
Wikileaks: Intelligence of Interest to India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
Wikileaks has claimed to have received from its source 251,287 documents, which are mainly diplomatic cables of a classification lower than “Top Secret” exchanged between the US State Department...
An Analysis of China’s White Papers on Defense
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 28 Nov , 2010
Have you ever heard of the term ‘Informationization’? The word is used 48 times in the new White Paper (WP) on Defense1 published by The Information Office of State Council of the...
Prospects for Democratization in Myanmar: Impact on India
By: David I Steinberg | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 27 Nov , 2010
According to the military junta that rules Myanmar,1 the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) is on the cusp of the completion in 2010 of its self-ordained “roadmap” to a form of...
The Madhesis of Nepal
By: K Yhome | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 26 Nov , 2010
Dramatic events in the past one year since the 2006 “April Revolution” in Nepal have been redefining the political landscape of the Himalayan nation in more ways than one. One important...
Pakistan: The Anti-India Identity
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 25 Nov , 2010
Jinnah’s full encouragement to the vicious anti-Hindu rhetoric in the campaign for Pakistan raises serious doubts about his much -touted stature as a visionary. More importantly, it reveals a...