Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 14:17
Paper No. 6488 . Dated 1-Feb-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s secure and stable future, however apparently uncertain in 2019, stands more endangered by United States imparting political legitimacy to Afghan Taliban by engaging them in official peace talks in Doha, and which political legitimacy the Afghan Taliban could not acquire by battling against the United States in Afghanistan for two decades.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 01/30/2019 - 06:07
Paper No. 6487 Dated 30-Jan-2019
By S.Chandrasekharan
From the flurry of activities of Sun Guoxiang, Special Envoy for Asian Affairs and the Chinese Ambassador at Yangon, it looks hat Chinese are in a desperate hurry to solve the question of the ethnic minorities and their armed organisations operating in the Kachin and the Shan areas on the Chinese border.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 06:28
Paper No. 6486 Dated 28-Jan-2019
By R M Panda
The performance of the President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih’s government has had mixed results so far. But judging from the enormous problems inherited by Solih, it is fair to say that Solih is doing his best.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 04:28
Paper No. 28 Dated 28-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s preferred end-scenario in positive terms of a ‘Stable and Secure Afghanistan’ not materialising after seventeen years of US military embedment arises mainly from United States reluctance to impose deterrent punitive measures on Pakistan Army for its proxy continuous and sustained disruptive activities against the elected Government of Afghanistan.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 01/22/2019 - 13:00
Paper No. 6483 Dated 22-Jan-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Russia seems in 2019 to have got its geopolitical realties wrong going by the condescending and arrogant statements of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov made at an annual conference directed at Japan on the controversial issue of Japan’s claims on Russia to restore the Northern Islands which Russia had captured after Germany’s defeat in Europe in 1945 invoking Japan’s defeat subsequently.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 01/16/2019 - 10:34
Paper No.6480 Dated 16-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The ‘China Threat ‘emerging in 2018 in comprehensive and diverse manifestations poses an existential crisis challenging not only the continuance of United States as the global unipolar Superpower but also targeted with intended consequences of prompting the United States to retreat into isolation within its continental confines.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 06:55
Paper No. 6477 . Dated 7-Jan-2018
By S.Chandrasekharan
On 21st December, in a surprise move ,the Army Chief Gen. Hliang announced a four-month ceasefire of operations in the northern and eastern regions bordering China and to end by April 30th 2019.
