Articles

Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan takes the Island Nation to International Limelight

In the wake of escalating tensions between the US and China that started over trade issues and further complicated by the Covid-19, the Taiwan issue has emerged as a caucus belli for a possible conflagration, which if not controlled with deft diploma....

August 09, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Article , Sabre-rattling , Tsai Ing-wen , Taiwan Strait , One-China policy , military drills , Nancy Pelosi , economic reprisals , security vulnerability

Is Biden Serious about Defending Taiwan from the Chinese Threat?

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine has dramatically altered the geopolitics of the world. When Russia’s Foreign Minister warned of the possibility of a nuclear war and Russian President Vladimir Putin placed his nuclear forces at an e....

June 07, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , QUAD , South China Sea , Taiwan , Sabre-rattling , NATO , One-China policy , flashpoint , international politics and diplomacy , strategy of denial , strategic ambiguity

North Korea’s Sabre-Rattling Continues

Prof Rajaram Panda Commentary

North Korea is not deterred by sanctions and continues to pursue its nuclear and missile development programmes. When the year 2022 dawned and the world’s attention was transfixed with Russia’s military operation in Ukraine on 24 February and, No....

May 09, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , Sabre-rattling , Kim Jong-un , Moon Jae-in , Yoon Suk-yeol , Hwasong-17 , Missile firing , nuclear test

Nuclear Sabre-rattling: Pakistan must Discard its Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

“Any nuclear weapon, of any quality, mode of delivery or yield, used against any type of target, will result in a strategic impact to which the logical response would be the use of nuclear weapons, more often than not, on an overwhelming....

October 10, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Pakistan , South Korea , Tactical Nuclear Weapons , Nuclear War , Air Force , Foreign Minister , TNWs , weapons , Sabre-rattling , Nuclear Weapons