Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 08/19/2014 - 06:11
Paper No. 5770 Dated 19-Aug-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Japan’s “Asian Security Diamond” strategic concept is the brainchild of Japan’s present Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as a strategic response to China casting menacing maritime shadows over the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 06:26
Paper No. 5764 Dated 13-Aug-2014
By Bhaskar Roy
The old cold war between the US and the Soviet Union, or the NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, had some clear lines of division. China gradually moved from the anti-US camp to the anti-Soviet comp and in the course maximised its benefits, proving self-interest and not ideology was the essence.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 08/11/2014 - 05:38
Paper No. 5762 Dated 11-Aug-2014
By Dr. Subhash Kapila
India witnessed two back-to-back visits by the US Secretary of State and US Defense Secretary Hagel to India recently.US Defense Secretary advocated a Japan-India-United States military alliance which is questionable.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 07/08/2014 - 08:56
Paper No. 5741 Dated 08-Jul-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Perceptions count heavily in foreign policy acts of commission and omission. Abrupt deferment of PM Modi’s announced visit to Japan on July03 2014 has avoidably created negative perceptions on India’s sincerity in Japan-India relations.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 07/04/2014 - 06:00
Paper No. 5739 Dated 04-Jul-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Introductory Observations
Japan has finally unshackled itself from its six decades old ‘Peace Constitution’ this week in response to the ever enlarging ‘China Threat’ and intensified Chinese military aggressiveness and coercive brinkmanship threatening Japan and East Asia.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 06/02/2014 - 10:23
Paper No. 5715 Dated 02-Jun-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Introductory Observations
Japanese Prime Minister Abe in his keynote Address on May 31 2014 at the Shangri-La Dialogue signalled Japan’s intentions to play an assertive role Asian security role. Implicitly, the target was China though not so named.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 05/01/2014 - 09:13
Paper No. 5694 Dated 1-May-2014
By Dr. Subhash Kapila
The South China Sea and the East China Sea in the Western Pacific no longer stand confined to China’s maritime territorial sovereignty disputes between China and its neighbours but have emerged as the arena of a major power struggle between China and the United States for the mastery of the Western Pacific and in mid-2014 the sounds of distant war drums are discernible.
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