Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 09:49
Paper No. 6336 Dated 03-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Strategic utility of a smaller nation to that of a major power lies in its credibility, usefulness and loyal effectiveness to serve the national security interests of its strategic patron and that in case of Pakistan seems to have faded as far as the United States is concerned with Pakistan having decidedly opting for the China-Pakistan Axis.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 09:05
Paper No. 6330 Dated 21-Dec-2017
By Dr. Subhash Kapila
The US National Security Strategy Document 2017, the first to be issued by President Trump in his first year of office is a significant departure from United States existing accommodative policy formulations on China and Russia; places Indo Pacific as top foreign policy focus; notably elevating India to the stature of a global leading power; and critical of Pakistan.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 11/28/2017 - 05:34
Paper No. 6324 Dated 28-Nov-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Japan on the verge of 2018 is geopolitically a ‘Leading Power’ in Asia along with India, and both as important heavy counterweights to a militarily disruptive China need to fast-track their corresponding military build-ups. Japan needs to unshackle itself from its Pacifist Constitution to do so.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 11/16/2017 - 10:04
Paper No. 6321 Dated 16-Nov-2017
By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan
In his one day stop at the capital of Myanmar on 15 November 2017, US Secretary of State Tillersen ruled out the much expected announcement of general sanctions against Myanmar. Instead, he called for an independent investigation into credible reports of the army initiated violence against the Rohingyas. He was wise enough to point out that by imposing sanctions alone the crisis cannot be expected to be considered to be over.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 11/13/2017 - 07:04
Paper No. 6319 Dated 13-Nov-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
US President Trump’s first tour of the Asia Pacific in November 2017, nearly a year after assuming office, raises two questions in terms of estimative analysis--- whether it was a strategic foray to a highly volatile region critical for US security or was it merely a diplomatic necessity, particularly in relation to China?
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 11/06/2017 - 07:25
Paper No. 6318 Dated 06-Nov-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Strange and ironical are geopolitical histories of a region where within two decades geopolitical alignments have spun on their heads. This happens to be the case of Afghanistan’s turbulent last two decades where a new and serious power tussle is underway between two Strategic Trilaterals.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 07:21
Paper No. 6317 Dated 30-Oct-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila;
The major outcome of China’s 19th National People’s Congress (NPC) just concluded heralds a return of the “Personality Cult” with President Xi Jinping’s ruthless abolition of a ‘Collective Leadership’ and manoeuvring his elevation to China’s pantheon of Mao Tse Tung and Deng Xiao Peng.
Pages
