Paper No. 6085                                  Dated 11-Mar-2016

By Bhaskar Roy

As Myanmar nears a historic political transition, the incoming National League for Democracy (NLD) will have a lot on their plate.  They will face the enormous challenge of steering the country according to their plans. Having struggled for two and a half decades against a hardline military rule, they will have a clearer understanding of challenges in the domestic field. But in foreign policy the NLD lacks experience.

Paper No. 6084                                 Dated 11-Mar-2016

By Dr Subhash Kapila

The United States in its perpetual state of delusionary reverie on China and Pakistan is dangerously oblivious to the emerging strategic reality that the China-Pakistan Axis is in terms of long-range strategic intent more targeting the United States than India to whom they are destined to be implacable enemies.

Paper No. 6083                                 Dated 03-Mar-2016

By Dr Subhash Kapila

In continuation of Paper No. 6081 dated 01 March 2016 a similar sabre-rattling by China against India has come to notice which seems to suggest that China using different mouth-pieces has begun a calibrated campaign against India to submit to Chinese pressures and back-off from any strategic proximity to the United States.

Note No. 761                                  Dated 02-Mar-2016

By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan     

Prime Minister Oli finally condescended to make an official six days visit to India from 19th February.  Despite some advice from his close friends to visit China first and thus give a message to India, he chose to wait for the supposed “blockade” to be withdrawn before he could visit Delhi.  There is an impression current in the valley that he has done India a “favour.”

Paper No. 6082                                 Dated 02-Mar-2016

By D. S. Rajan

There is no need to emphasize the need for the outside world to know about what is happening inside China, the second largest economy in the world and a rising power with enormous political and military clout globally.

Grand Strategy

Paper No. 6081                                Dated 01-Mar-2016

By Dr Subhash Kapila

Rattled by growing US-India strategic convergence on South China Sea issue, China in a manifestation of its imperial inclinations towards India has recently resorted to issuing proxy injunctions through its state-run media organ ‘The Global Times’ warning India to desist from any joint initiatives with the United States.

Paper No. 6080                               Dated 29-Feb-2016

By D. S. Rajan

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