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Need Moratoriums Beyond Binary
25 October 2020 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty(SALT) and it’s variant Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) defined much of what we can call as a Western Doctrinal Consensus borne from the bed rock of Mutually Assured Destruction(MAD). From the late 80s including a Declaration for a Nuclear Disarmament that was championed by late Rajiv Gandhi and Read more
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China’s Duopoly Play
21 October 2020 In what was missed by most main stream watchers/media, a PLA soldier was returned to Chinese side at a border outpost along the Ladakh frontierhttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/chinese-soldier-who-strayed-into-lac-in-ladakh-handed-back-to-china/articleshow/78779879.cms. The details are not incidental, nor does one suppose this to be a one off. The PLA ploy could well be to muster Humint in Ladakh in Read more
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Trump Versus Biden
21 October 2020 We are 14 days away from 03 November 2020, a year when I thought, America would vote to get rid of the person who became its 45th President by what I can call as the biggest stroke of randomness. For four years, USA has been witnessing a steady stream of lies, confabulations, Read more
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The Thai Crises
So we are back to a series of demonstrations and protests. Readers would recall, how I have consistently taken the view that Thai State is acting in utter disregard to the simple nature of demand of the people, to be held accountable and answerable to them, and how even in the last decades of the Read more