Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 07/21/2014 - 05:46
Paper No. 5746 Dated 21-Jul-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
(Observations made at Round Table Conference at Danang, Vietnam May 20 2014 by Dr Subhash Kapila following the International Workshop on May 19 2014.)
South China Sea has emerged as an explosive regional and global flashpoint endangering the security and stability of the wider Indo Pacific region. This arises mainly from China’s propensity to use force to settle territorial disputes.
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 Thu, 05/08/2014 - 09:23
Paper No. 5697 Dated 8-May-2014
By Dr. Subhash Kapila
China has once again endangered security and stability in the maritime expanse of the South China Sea region by repetition of its traditional strategy of military coercion and brinkmanship against Vietnam in early May 2014.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 04/25/2014 - 05:59
Paper No. 5688 Dated 25-Apr-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
United States President Obama commenced his four-nation visit to the Asia Pacific region by his first State Visit to Japan which commenced on April 23 2014 and will be followed by visits to South Korea, Philippines and Malaysia and these visits becoming strategically significant in that contextually it is taking place against rising tensions generated by China in East Asia more pointedly.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 04/16/2014 - 09:21
Paper No. 5686 Dated 16-Apr-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Indonesia finally shed its strategic ambiguity in March 2014 on the China-generated South China Sea conflicts by Indonesian officials asserting that China’s Nine Dash Line is in conflict with Indonesia’s maritime sovereignty around the Natuna Inlands in response to increased Chinese military activities in the Southern Segment of the South China Sea.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 03/28/2014 - 06:12
Paper No. 5674 Dated 28-Mar-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
India-Japan-Vietnam strategic trilateral emerges in 2014 as an indigenous Asian security imperative against the contextual background of United States and Russia despite their Strategic Pivots to Asia getting distracted by global and regional events.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 03/18/2014 - 05:09
Paper No. 5666 Dated 18-Mar-2014
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang is currently on a State-visit to Japan in what can be read as a calibrated attempt by both Vietnam and Japan to adding substantial contours to their existing Strategic Partnership to meet the security challenges confronting them.
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