23 October 2022 When things look inevitable, they often are. Collective wishing away from vested corners does not cancel the march of the drumbeats of history. The events of even two years ago could not have envisaged such a smooth extension of President Xi Jinping of China beyond the stipulated two term limit set by […]
Tag: Uighur Genocide
6 May 2022 Never before in history it would seem that greatness has been delivered to a nation, in such a perfunctory fashion. Greatness in terms of economic and technological prowess, on a platter by the extant order, out of sheer desire of maximising profit. China benefited by the World War II defeat of Japan, […]
25 August 2021 What the entire spectrum of Western media is agog with is what they ride high on- humanitarian crises, that has been set upon by the current situation in Afghanistan. The early reports of executions, arrests, public defacing using ink, flogging etc that are now coming to the fore are one part of […]
25 May 2021 We knew this Climate of Strategic Uncertainty had been called into operation when China discarded her decades old ‘peaceful rise’ policy and switched to what has been called ‘aggressive revisionism’ which manifested as Wolf Diplomacy and PLA Exercises. In 2013, Ladakh which is today a clear zone of intransigence, came to the […]
02 April 2021 This one has a lot of what analysts call ‘wheels within wheels’! The Russian presence in the Eurasian Continental is one which we cannot ignore, no matter how much Chinese lay claim to the honours of being the titans, for reasons of history, reasons of character of the people and most importantly […]
21 March 2021 Probably Western Civilisation has at the moment the best set of institutions, which is why it has managed to keep ahead of the Game through two world wars and the world’s first ever multidecadal strategic game of stare, where two sets of military systems stared down at each other with ballistic missiles, […]
Xinjiang-Chink In China?
23 November 2020 As we study the contours of the conflict in the Caucasus region, the attention of any one who has interest is drawn to the ethnic nature of this conflict. How Turkic people are driving this Azeri effort to take back territories lost in the first Karabakh war of 1990s is not the […]
9 October 2020 For all the geostrategic play many are actually going about discounting what I would call the domestic and the immediate for China. Just look at Taiwan, which appeared increasingly amenable at one point to sort of coexisting with China, even under the One China Policy, which America had under Nixon endorsed, which […]