Category: India & Its Neighbours

China, Africa and realpolitik

Came across these statistics in a presentation by Sebastian Teunissen , a Professor at Univ. of California.  Pl. read in conjunction with my earlier post on this topic (“China’s investment and expansion in Africa”) and you...

Would our comrades care to look “eastwards”?

In yesterday’s (1st Nov) International Herald Tribune (IHT), I picked up a piece of news related to executions in China (“High Court in China to rule on all executions”). The news-story mentioned that “China’s...

The Pakistan connection to North Korea’s nuclear test

Yesterday, I came across a great piece of analysis by Rohit Pattnaik (Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi) titled, “The Impact of North Korea’s Nuclear Test“. It shows...

The Rail Line to Tibet…

Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph also had an article on the newly opened railway line to Lhasa, “Feeling low on the roof of the world” The article reinforced some of the fears that I had expressed in...

B Raman on Musharraf, Kargil and lies…

Great analysis from B Raman: Musharraf: Throwing Dust in His Own Eyes”  In the article, Shri B Raman’s cites some instances of Gen Musharraf’s falsehoods: Till Musharraf was appointed the COAS by Mr. Sharif in...