India must change its way of dealing with Nepal as times have changed and the same goes for China, it needs to have a more improved approach towards promoting Nepal’s hydropower projects instead of delaying it. ...
Triangular strategic combination of three major powers seems to be unrealistic and could open new vistas of opportunities and progress. Moreover, various confrontations will neither bring prosperity nor the advent of ‘Asian Century’. ...
The Naga militant/political movement and the instability is as important to the Indian State as it is for the Nagas as this provide the perfect cover to station troops. ...
The enlarging Sino-Iranian cooperation between Beijing and Tehran is a blow for New Delhi’s strategic calculations. However, the range and depth of these challenges would be determined by the extent of Beijing’s advance in dealing with the conflicts of interest involved. ...
Cults of personalities for centuries enabled the survival of innumerable dynasties and dynasts by constructing a perception where an individual is essential for the survival or prosperity of the state by inextricably affiliating themselves with the state. Putin and Xi are prime examples of this. ...
G-20 is especially important because it provides India, a developing populous country, with an opportunity to display its global, political, economic and intellectual leadership on the same platform with the world’s most powerful countries. ...
The Quad has emerged as a dynamic grouping; one that is here to stay. But, it has to tread carefully and conduct continuous risk assessments in order to keep its mandate and purpose intact. ...
Five years on, the BRI narrative has not only focused on hard infrastructures like railways or hydropower but also on areas like digital technology through its digital silk road, on global health governance through its health silk road and fostering people to people relationship and so on. ...
With the launch of the Power of Siberia, China received a stable source of gas supplies, almost independent of the international situation. LNG suppliers to China are completely dependent on shipping. ...
China’s Dilemma in the South China Sea
The growing gust of apprehension in the South China Sea dispute essentially appears to be the involvement of external powers which signals that if the situation gets worse, the world might witness the recurrence of Cold-War dilemma in the South China Sea. ...