South Asia’s Role in the Pentagon’s “Indo-Pacific Strategy Report”

June 4, 2019

The US’ recently released “Indo-Pacific Strategy Report” envisages India playing a key role in this vast transregional space in order to “contain” China, while Pakistan is conspicuously absent from th…

Can India Offer its Neighbors an Alternative to China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’?

February 9, 2018

Opinion

As China continues to develop its ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative (OBOR), its main competitor in the region, India, is working on its own international infrastructure projects. These are aimed at stre…

China Strengthens Influence on Indian Frontier

January 8, 2018

Opinion

As it is known, all the states bordering with India are the zones of the Indian-Chinese struggle for the economic, political, and military dominance (except for Pakistan – a traditional opponent of In…

Indian Posturing, Post-Doklam, Has a Tragi-Comic Feel

September 7, 2017

Opinion

Why the standoff between India and China, near the Sikkim border, began at all, and how it ended, after 71 long and anxious days, on August 28, will likely never be fully known. The Indian foreign min…

‘No War, No Peace’: India Raises Military Alert Level Over China Border Dispute

August 13, 2017

Military

The standoff between China and India along the Doklam Plateau has shown no signs of de-escalating, as India continues to bolster its strength and increase operational readiness along the border. New D…

The Bhutan Standoff: More Opportunity than Threat

August 10, 2017

Opinion

In June of this year a new dispute between India and China arose when Indian troops moved into an area where the borders of Bhutan, Tibet and China meet and confronted Chinese workers building a road.…

China & India Play ‘Who Blinks First’ Over Tiny Strategic Area in Himalayas

August 4, 2017

Politics

Beijing and New Delhi are standing their ground, neither side yielding an inch in a dispute over a piece of Himalayan territory that flared up again a month ago. Could a war of words in an issue with …

China Raps India Over Doklam Standoff, But Dogs Are On Leash

August 4, 2017

Opinion

The Chinese Foreign Ministry released a position paper on Wednesday laying out the “facts” in relation to the six week-old standoff with India in the Sikkim border region. In a nutshell, the document …