Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 02/06/2017 - 05:59
Paper No. 6219 Dated 06-Feb-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The United States Forward Defence Perimeter in the Western Pacific ever since 1945 has been an effective shield and a first line of defence for Mainland USA, first against the Soviet Union and now against an increasingly belligerent China’s geopolitical designs.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 02/03/2017 - 05:17
Paper No. 6218 Dated 03-Feb-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
South China Sea conflict escalation in2017 hovers as a distinct possibility with the maximalist positons taken by China and the new US Trump Administration in opposing China’s claims.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 07:45
Paper No. 6217 Dated 28-Jan-2017
By Bhaskar Roy
I would be morally remiss if in my article on Bangladesh (my first article on the country this year-2017) I did not revisit the torture and trauma the Bengali people suffered in their struggle for freedom from Pakistan. The Liberation War was fought on the plank of ethno-cultural independence and secularism. Unfortunately, that war is not yet over.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 05:36
Paper No. 6216 Dated 27-Jan-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Asia’s new geopolitical matrix in 2017 will be determined by the challenges that US President throws at China and the likely reset of US polices on Russia and it is in this churning Asian geopolitics that Japan and India will be called upon as Asia’s Emerged Powers to act in unison to meet the challenges so arising.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 07:02
Paper No. 6214 Dated 17-Jan-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan seemed to have disappeared from the United States radar in the months to the run-up to US Presidential Elections resulting in a void which the China-Pakistan-Russia Troika has exploited to US disadvantage.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/16/2017 - 07:15
Paper No. 6213 Dated 16-Jan-2017
By Bhaskar Roy
The Chinese official newspaper, the Global Times (January 11) in an article entitled “Indian arms same to Hanoi disturbing if aimed at China”, warned New Delhi that India must desist from doing to China what China does to India.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 05:48
Paper No. 6212 Dated 09-Jan-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Strategic dilemmas face Russia in 2017 in terms of recalibrating its foreign policies with United States and China in response to new US President’s policy shifts recently indicated.
US President-elect Trump has minced no words in enunciating likely hard line policies against China and the United States desire to recast existing American policies for more cooperative relations with Russia.
