TRENDS
Below the surface of the Bangladesh-India romance, some ugly strains are building
Sheikh Hasina’s invitation to Modi to attend Sheikh Mujib’s centennial celebrations in March sparked off large-scale protests, with Islamists and Left-wing students—long engaged in violent confrontation with each other—uniting to oppose the Indian prime minister’s visit to Dhaka.
TRENDS
Does Israel’s assassination culture actually help fight terrorists and rogue states?
The recent killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakrizadeh is the latest in a series attributed to Israel’s intelligence service, the Mossad. However, Israel’s assassination programme could mean the country is more likely to face an existential threat from a nuclear-armed Teheran in coming years, not less.
BUSINESS
Loss of Farzad-B field in Iran isn’t a calamity for India, but it should be a wake-up call
To capitalise on the opportunities in a changing world, New Delhi needs to be nimble as never before; the country can no longer afford the sloth and dithering which has too often characterised Indian diplomacy.
INTERVIEW
Interview: Chinese scholar Zhao Tong on nuclear arms dimensions of Ladakh crisis, military capabilities and more
In an interview with Network18 Group Consulting Editor Praveen Swami, Dr Zhao Tong, a senior fellow in nuclear policy at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Centre, Beijing, of the Carnegie International Endowment for Peace, talks about the little-discussed nuclear-weapons dimensions of the Ladakh crisis.
EXPERT-COLUMNS
A tiny island in Aegean sea is throwing up fundamental questions about world order
Kastellorizo tells us important things about how the toxic cocktail of resources, ultra-nationalism and religion can drive a geopolitical crisis.
WORLD
Will post-Abe Japan help craft an Asian compact to counter China? Easier said than done.
For Abe, building a compact of Asian states with Japan at its core offered the sole prospect of containing the new superpower the new superpower that has arisen in their midst — and threatens them all
WORLD
INTERVIEW: China foreign policy expert Yun Sun on border dispute, what went wrong in India-China ties, and more
In an interview to Network18 Group Consulting Editor Praveen Swami, eminent China scholar Yun Sun talks about the withdrawal of troops on both sides and the understanding of what the LAC is.
WORLD
Not confident about complete withdrawal of troops from LAC, says China foreign policy expert Yun Sun
In an interview with Network18 Group Consulting Editor Praveen Swami, Yun Sun, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center in Washington DC, said she is not particularly confident about a complete disengagement and full withdrawal of troops.
POLITICS
On the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh: The way of the sword, and the way of the monk
The core question that ought be concerning New Delhi is not whether the PLA has taken a few kilometres of territory or a mountaintop here or there. The real need is to develop sharp clarity on what New Delhi’s real red lines are, and how it will respond should they be breached.
WORLD
Could the New Cold War turn hot?
As a new Cold War is descending on Asia, it’s critical to anticipate what happens if it turns hot.
EXPERT-COLUMNS
India needs to count itself lucky its Chabahar project has ended up in an induced coma
Lessons need to be learned in New Delhi, from this unhappy story, on the risks involved in playing that ultimate game of the great powers, geopolitics — and, more important, the thin line that divides ambition from hubris.
POLITICS
India shouldn’t count on ‘America First’ USA to push back against China
America is in the midst of an inexorable turning-away from the world, which President Trump’s successors will not, and cannot, reverse.
