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10/02/2020

People may criticise us, but environment is top priority for Bhutan, says Lotay Tshering
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Prime Minister Lotay Tshering says Thimpu’s commitment to sustainability justifies the decision to levy a tourism fee, stay out of regional transport pact

09/02/2020

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09/02/2020

Press Statement by Prime Minister during the State Visit of Prime Minister of Sri Lanka to India

India and Sri Lanka are neighbors since time immemorial, and also close friends. The history of our relationship has been woven with countless colorful threads like culture, religion, spirituality, art and language. Whether it is security or economy or social progress, our past and our future are connected to each other in every region. Stability, security and prosperity in Sri Lanka are not only in interest of India, but also in the interest of the entire Indian Ocean region and therefore, our close cooperation is valuable for peace and prosperity even in the Indo-Pacific region

Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India

Translation of Press Statement by Prime Minister during the State Visit of Prime Minister of Sri Lanka to India

09/02/2020

International Affairs January issue explores the strategic outlook in the Indo-Pacific. Read online for free here: https://t.co/ofJ8reRqno

09/02/2020

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa Visit to India : Interview in the Hindu.

'We want to go forward, but we need to have someone to discuss, who can take responsibility for the [Tamil] areas.'

09/02/2020

Prof. B R Deepak : Coronavirus is a black swan for China and the world.

The move to evacuate citizens from Wuhan and issuing of travel advisories has irked China.   On 21 January 2019 while addressing hundreds of senior officials from all provinces and autonomous regions at the Communist Party School in Beijing, President Xi Jinping told them that “We must maintain a...

09/02/2020

BOOK REVIEW: Bertil Lintner's The Costliest Pearl

China — like other powers that have dominated the international system — seeks hegemony and the Indian Ocean is an increasingly crucial area of operations for it to achieve this end.

09/02/2020

Book Review: Running with the Dragon by Saibal Dasgupta

Prof. Alka Acharya :
With China’s might and security concerns impinging on the prospects of Indian businesses, Dasgupta offers a primer on making the most of bilateral trade opportunities

With China’s might and security concerns impinging on the prospects of Indian businesses, Dasgupta offers a primer on making the most of bilateral trade opportunities

30/07/2018

Volume 54 Issue 3, August 2018
Table of Contents (PDF)
I Articles
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A New Game Started? China’s ‘Overseas Strategic Pivots’ in the Indian Ocean Region
Mike Chia-Yu Huang
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 267–284
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Facets of Trade Facilitation
Exemplary Cases from China and India
Malini L. Tantri, C. Nalin Kumar
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 285–305
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Achievements and Problems in Vietnam
China Relations from 1991 to the Present
Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Nguyen Thi Phuong Hoa
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 306–324
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Collaborators! Aftermath of Wartime Support for the INA among Indians in China
Nirmola Sharma
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 325–340
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Deciphering the Pauk Phaw* between Myanmar and China
Sampa Kundu
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 341–353
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II Book Discussions
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Book Discussion: India, China and the World: A Connected History by Tansen Sen
Upinder Singh
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 354–357
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Book Discussion: India, China and the World: A Connected History by Tansen Sen
Arunabh Ghosh
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 358–360
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Book Discussion: India, China and the World: A Connected History by Tansen Sen
Shivshankar Menon
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 361–363
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Book Review: Xinjiang and the Chinese State: Violence in the Reform Era by Debasish Chaudhuri
Vijay K. Nambiar
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 364–366
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Book Review: Demystifying China’s Mega Trends: The Driving Forces That Will Shake Up China and the World by Chi Lo
Debasish Chaudhuri
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 367–369
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Book Review: Foreign Direct Investment and the Chinese Economy: A Critical Assessment by Chunlai Chen
Sharmila Kantha
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 369–372
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Book Review: China, the United States, and the future of Southeast Asia Edited by David B.H. Denoon
Vinod C. Khanna
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 372–374
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Book Review: The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe, 1450–1850: Connections and Comparisons Edited by Joseph P. McDermott and Peter Burke
Hang Lin
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 374–376
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Book Review: India–China Relations 1947–2000: A Documentary Study Edited by Avtar Singh Bhasin
Kishan S Rana
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 377–379
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Book Review: China’s India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World by Bertil Lintner
Ashok K. Kantha
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 379–381
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Book Review: Japan’s Foreign Policy Making: Central Government Reforms, Decision-Making Processes, and Diplomacy by Karol Zakowski, Beata Bochorodycz, and Marcin Socha
Sukalpa Chakrabarti
First Published July 2, 2018; pp. 382–384

Table of contents for China Report, 54, 3, Aug 01, 2018

30/07/2018

Introduction
Guest Editor’s Introduction
Rajiv Nayan
Articles
Walking Back Delusional Nuclear Policies
Bharat Karnad
Pokhran 20 Years After: Did the World Change?
Harald Muller
Military Dimensions of a Multipolar World: Implications for Global Governance
Ian Anthony
Post-Pokhran II: Emerging Global Nuclear Order and India’s Nuclear Challenge
Roshan Khanijo
Nuclear India and the Global Nuclear Order
Rajiv Nayan
Strategic Essay
Nuclear Armed for Uncertain Times
Sheel Kant Sharma
US–Soviet/Russian Dialogue on the Nuclear Weapons Programme of India
Petr V. Topychkanov
India’s Deterrence and Disarmament: The Impact of Pokhran-II
Jayant Prasad
Nuclear Arms Race in South Asia? – An Analysis
G. Balachandran
From the Archives
Indian Nuclear Policy—1964–98 (A Personal Recollection)
K. Subrahmanyam

30/07/2018

Trump’s Populism Is as Lethal as Liberalism
Atul Bhardwaj
is a former naval officer and adjunct fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi.

The recently concluded Helsinki summit between Russia and the United States on 16 July 2018 is reminiscent of the Cold War the in strategy of theUS to create a wedge between China and Russia. The great power politics unleashed by Donald Trump from European soil is also aimed at facilitating populism to replace liberalism as the dominant political ideology in Europe.

The recently concluded Helsinki summit between Russia and the United States on 16 July 2018 is reminiscent of the Cold War the in strategy of theUS to create a wedge between China and Russia. The great power politics unleashed by Donald Trump from European soil is also aimed at facilitating populism...

30/07/2018

ARGUMENT
India Is the Weakest Link in the Quad

BY DEREK GROSSMAN

The four-nation mechanism was set up to contain Chinese maritime expansionism, but New Delhi is having second thoughts.

The four-nation mechanism was set up to contain Chinese maritime expansionism, but New Delhi is having second thoughts.