Here’s Why President Putin Should Visit South Asia This Year

Here’s Why President Putin Should Visit South Asia This Year

The Russian President is long overdue for a visit to one of the centerpiece regions of the emerging Indo-Pacific century, and the overlap of infrastructure, trade, and institutional interests there should give President Putin more than enough reasons to seriously consider taking a trip to South Asia. Global politics have been steadily shifting eastward over…

Unrest Growing in India’s Army, Central Armed Police Forces

Unrest Growing in India’s Army, Central Armed Police Forces

On January 13 2017, Constable Balvir of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in Aurangabad in Bihar, was reported to have shot and killed four of his colleagues. Earlier, the family had reportedly informed CISF local authorities that Balvir had a psychiatric problem and he be not provided with firearms. If true, this constituted a…

Pakistani General Invites India to Accede to a Sino-Pakistani Project

Pakistani General Invites India to Accede to a Sino-Pakistani Project

On December 21, Commander Southern Command Lt General Amir Riaz invited India to accede to an ambitious project on the establishment of a China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The invitation was extended as part of reconciliatory rhetoric, which Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had adopted some time ago in order to ease the tension building…

2017 Forecast: China

2017 Forecast: China

Summary China will have to confront the Three T’s of Trump, trade, and Taiwan, as well as the progressively unfolding and American-provoked New Cold War that it’s involved in with India, but Beijing could make positive geopolitical progress so long as its New Silk Road plans in Pakistan and ASEAN aren’t derailed by Hybrid War….

The Russia Pakistan Equation

The Russia Pakistan Equation

A remarkable geopolitical shift has taken place in this part of the world as the traditional pattern of friends and adversaries is broken. India and Pakistan have been in opposite camps since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947. India and Russia have been all-time strategic partners while Pakistan was more mindful of American interests…

India, From the Destabilization of Agriculture to Demonetization, “Made in America”

India, From the Destabilization of Agriculture to Demonetization, “Made in America”

Emerging evidence indicates that demonetisation was not done to curb corruption, ‘black money’ or terrorism, the reasons originally given. That was a smokescreen. Modi was acting on behalf of powerful Wall Street financial interests. Demonetisation hascaused massive hardship, inconvenience and chaos. It has affected everyone and has impacted the poor and those who reside in…