Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 10/16/2017 - 06:01
Paper No. 6311 Dated 16-Oct-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The United States has taken sixteen years down the line and numerous speed-breakers in US-Pakistan relations to realise that Pakistan was not only not delivering on US security interests but also undermining them. Sadly, this Paper of mine (Reproduced as Annexure) was coincidently published on the very morning of the Pakistan facilitated, financed and ISI trained Islamic Jihadi assaults in New York.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 10/09/2017 - 05:57
Paper No. 6310 Dated 07-Oct-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Pakistan in September 2017 perceptionaly appears in an existential crisis wherein all major pillars of state stand engulfed in a systemic failure likely to endanger regional security and a crisis from which Pakistan cannot retrieve itself without a change of existing mindsets by Pakistan’s policy establishment.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 10/04/2017 - 06:56
Paper No. 6309 Dated 04-Oct-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Post-Dokalam Standoff in which China defused the confrontation as a political expedient to save the BRICS Summit in Beijing in September 2017, the new Chinese flavour of the season advocated by the Chinese Ambassador to India is that China believes that the “Elephant and the Dragon Can Dance Together”—totally inconceivable.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 09/26/2017 - 04:57
Paper No. 6308 Dated 26-Sept-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Geopolitically, in the context of a threatening Asian security environment, the Second US-Japan-India Trilateral Ministerial Dialogue of the Foreign Ministers of the three nations was held in New York on September 18 2017 on the side-lines of the UNGA Session acquires added significance.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 09/21/2017 - 11:02
Paper No. 6306 Dated 21-Sept-2017
By Bhaskar Roy
After over two month long military stand-off, the soldiers of India and China on the Doklam Plateau (claimed by Bhutan and also by China), disengaged almost simultaneously, both capitals would have heaved a huge sigh of relief.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 09/18/2017 - 05:44
Paper No. 6305 Dated 18-Sept-2017
Dr Subhash Kapila
Japan’s geopolitical and strategic imperatives for nuclear weapons were strongly existent in 2002 and highlighted by me then and when contextually reviewed in 2017 against the backdrop of China-generated North Korea nuclear flashpoint makes a Japanese nuclear weapons arsenal “Inescapable” for Japan’s survival as an Emerged Power.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 09/12/2017 - 06:43
Paper No. 6303 Dated 12-Sept-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s visit to India on September13-14 2017 though officially as part of the Annual Summits between the Prime Ministers of Japan and India emerges as geopolitically significant against the contextual Asian security environment muddied by China itself and its nuclear proxies in East Asia and South Asia.
