Geopolitics
India’s Polite but Firm Stand at Doklam that has Unnerved China
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Aug , 2017
The Doklam standoff between India and China is now almost two months old, longest in recent history of stand-offs between the two Asian giants. On 16 Jun ‘17 when china started this mischief...
Jinping’s Worries and the Game of Nukes
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Aug , 2017
Heading a large country like China, President Xi Jinping naturally has many worries, besides pushing his pet project - the ‘China Dream’. The standoff between the Indian Army and the PLA at...
Doklam Plateau Standoff or South China Sea: Chinese Active Defence Strategy...
By: Maj Gen SB Asthana | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Aug , 2017
As Comprehensive National Power (CNP) of China is growing, its strategy to impose its national will (as perceived by its few key leaders), exercise its power through its behavior in the...
China has done India a Favor
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Aug , 2017
China did India a favor in 1962 by waking up the Indian government, especially the deceptive Prime Minister of the time, though it really killed him very quickly after. The conflict brought the...
Doklam: Sinister Strategic Lessons for Asian Region of a Rising China
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Aug , 2017
In the mid-1990’s a “China Threat Theory” gained currency as a reaction to China’s huge progress in the economic, military and manufacturing sectors. In fact, its overall accumulation of...
Hurriyat: The lynchpin of Pakistan’s War
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Aug , 2017
The Hurriyat is in docks. The houses and properties of the leaders and their associates have been raided. It has yielded a mountain of evidence and proof of culpability, blatant criminality and...
Hambantota Swallowed – China entraps Sri Lanka
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Aug , 2017
In a massive strategic victory for China, Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port was officially transferred to China for 99 years by the government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe under a landmark...
Blockade of Qatar: Why Saudi led group may not succeed?
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2017
On June 5, 2017 four Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries including Saudi Arabia cut ties with Qatar reproving it of fostering "terrorist" groups and of links to Riyadh's arch-rival Iran. The...
Logic Behind Chinese Aggressive Moves!
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2017
Last two months or so have seen the Chinese PLA (Peoples Liberation Army) provoke India on the border. Easily the Doklam incident is the most serious of the lot and remains still unresolved....
Dealing with China’s Recent Assertiveness
By: Maj Gen PK Chakravorty | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Aug , 2017
At the meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group held at Berne in Switzerland on 22 and 23 June 2017 China has been successful in blocking India’s admission to the Group. China insisted that the...
How to check China
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Aug , 2017
China is apparently acting out a role as a regional bully: it stakes claims to large tracts of Indian territory; contests ownership of the Spratly isles with the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan,...
Stand-Off at Tri-Junction: China Indulging in Psychological Warfare
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2017
In the first week of June 2017, China had bulldozed an old bunker of the Indian army at Doka La south of the tri-junction of India, Tibet and Bhutan in Sikkim. The Indian army had refused to...
Was Tahrir Square Revolution a Failed Effort in Applying Nonviolence?
By: Dr Krishna S Dhir, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jul , 2017
Although Islamic groups do not hold a monopoly on violence, the prevailing trends are such that many in the West, and also in the East, now conflate Islamic traditions with a propensity for...
Middle East Boils Over Qatar
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jul , 2017
The Middle East has never been a picture of stability, much to the chagrin and worry of the world. The region, however, has had some semblance of order for the last seven to eight decades or so...
Leveraged Transactional Diplomacy (LTD) can resolve the Doklam Stand off
By: VBN Ram | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2017
There is no gainsaying, that in modern warfare, a military confrontation between two militarily unequal nations, does not always result in the defeat of the weaker nation, though, in all...
How should India deal with China?
By: Sanjeev Nayyar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jul , 2017
India's refusal to be part of OBOR and Doklam stand-off has made China occupy more mind space than at any time in the recent past. Conversely Global Times, mouthpiece of the Communist Party of...
Doklam: Keeping the Powder Dry!
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2017
The SENSEX is zooming and therefore all is hunky dory. The Government is busy with its economic agenda. All is well. Doklam!! What of it? Are war clouds looming? Are we conjuring up reasons for...
US Stance on Pakistan – finally righting
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jul , 2017
For the first time ever the US has listed Pakistan among the nations providing “safe havens” to terrorists, saying terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and JeM continued to operate,...
Chinese Doklam Standoff very different from previous Border Disputes
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jul , 2017
Discarding Bhutan’s objections, when Chinese unilaterally started constructing a Class 40 road towards Bhutan Army’s camp in Zompelri on 16 Jun in Doklam area, thereby bringing the Tri...
Politics over China’s Political Warfare
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jul , 2017
Query about China’s political warfare in India and you receive blank looks as if the antecedents of Princess Wei are being asked who as per President Xi Jinping was married to the moon in...