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The Pentagon Report and China’s Response
August 24 , 2010 Debasish Chaudhuri
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The release of Pentagon Report on China’s defense capability and its subsequent response from the PRC has become an annual ritual since year 2000. According to the National Defense Authorization Act of ...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

China’s Stake over Sea
August 18 , 2010 Debasish Chaudhuri
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America’s decision of changing the venue of joint military maneuver with South Korea in Japan Sea last month in the face of Chinese pressure indicates the limit of balance-of-power dynamics practiced so...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

KARACHI AS A METAPHOR FOR THE COMING ANARCHY IN PAKISTAN
August 13 , 2010 Sushant Sareen
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Pakistan’s commercial capital, Karachi, is no stranger to politically motivated violence. Since the mid 1980’s, when the MQM erupted on the political firmament of Karachi, political violence had pretty...

Pakistan

State of Mind of the Chinese Nation
August 6 , 2010 Debasish Chaudhuri
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Knowledge plays a vital role in nation building and in controlling of society. From the last decade of nineteenth century to the May Fourth period, Chinese intellectuals of different backgrounds – refor...

China

Sohrabuddin Case and Police Encounters: Realities and Myths
August 5 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 9271
Beware of half truths — because you may be holding the wrong half. After having seen and read so much about the Sohrabuddin episode in the last five years, one might believe one knows it all. Sohrabuddin is now cast as an innocent victim of police excess.

Terrorism

SENIOR GENERAL THAN SHWE’S VISIT : A GRAND SUCCESS
August 3 , 2010 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
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Amidst the doom and gloom generated by an Indian foreign policy, which has for the last several years been marked by lack of vision and by pusillanimity in dealings with USA, Pakistan and China, there a...

Myanmar

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