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Xi Jinping Challenges Donald Trump to Battle over Taiwan

It is clear from President Xi’s New Year speech on Taiwan that he believes that PLA is battle ready to unify Taiwan with Mainland China by force.   During the first five-year term of former Chinese President Hu Jintao, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) began its program of “Anti-Access Area Denial” (A2AD) against United States …

Himalayan Watch

India-China Relations: Is There a Thaw?

Even though the trade war between the US and China is escalating and has taken the centre stage of the international discourse, the word Doklam does not seem to have escaped the media’s attention in the context of India-China relations. It is more than one year since the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) invaded Bhutan’s territory …

Opinion

India Must Not Fail the Maldives Test

The need is to prevent the stabilising of a Wahhabi outpost already breeding dozens of ISIS fighters at the trade routes of the western reaches of the Indo-Pacific.   Barack Obama’s envoy to the UN, Samantha Power, concretized the concept of the “Responsibility to Protect”. She meant protect vulnerable populations that are thrown into agony …

Opinion

Evolution of India’s Nuclear Policy

A lecture delivered by Prof. Roddam Narasimha at the XIII International Amaldi Conference (2000), preceded by a tribute contributed by Dr. V. Siddhartha, Member, Advisory Board, STSfor, based on texts of emails exchanged between them. At the height of the Cold War, the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) founded the Committee on International Security …

Opinion

Taiwan’s China Dilemma

The 21st century saw two important developments, which led to a paradigm shift in international politics. The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, led to the end of an international system characterised by tight bipolarity of power between the US and Soviet Union; and was accompanied by the rise of multiple poles of power, leading to a multipolar international order, populated by several multilateral organisations. However, even within the multipolar system, the various poles of power have varying degrees of power in relation to one another.