Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 03/14/2017 - 04:54
Paper No. 6232 Dated 14-Mar-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
India’s foreign policy while focussing on India’s national interests cannot at the same time in 2017 be oblivious to China’s and Pakistan’s concerted efforts for a geopolitical and strategic diminution of India to arrest its upward rise.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 03/07/2017 - 05:54
Paper No. 6228 Dated 07-Mar-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan is likely to present the most significant and biggest challenge to US President Trump as China, Russia and Pakistan have new found congruence to muscle into a nation in which the United States has so heavily invested strategically.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 05:21
Paper No. 6225 Dated 20-Feb-2017
By Bhaskar Roy
India and China will hold a new round of strategic dialogue in Beijing on February 22. The meeting will be co-chaired by Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui. The format was put in place when Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited India in August last year.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 02/21/2017 - 05:18
Paper No. 6224 Dated 20-Feb-2017
By Dr. Subhash Kapila
Global Geopolitics in 2017 are fast acquiring the contours of the initial years of the cold war when both the former Soviet Union (now Russia) and China were geopolitically aligned to challenge the ‘New World Order’ that emerged in post-World War II era.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 07:09
Paper No. 6223 Dated 14-Feb-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Global balance of power 2017 is weighted heavily against perceived combined strategic weight of the China-Russia nexus as the history of 20th Century World Wars would indicate that Hitlerian impulses do not triumph against democracies coalescing against them.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 05:50
Paper No. 6220 Dated 08-Feb-2017
Guest Column by Alexander Murray
On 4 February, the UN Security Council (UNSC) agreed to remove Hezb-e-Islami-e-Gulbuddin (HIG) power-broker and former Afghan Prime Minister, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, from its international sanctions list. Having negotiated a truce with HIG and settled on the peaceful terms of Hekmatyar’s reintegration into Afghan civil society, the government of President Ashraf Ghani is sure to welcome the news.
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.
