A Geo-strategic Importance of Tibet: China’s “Palm and Five-Fingers Strategy”

A Geo-strategic Importance of Tibet: China’s “Palm and Five-Fingers Strategy”0
- Commentary
- July 4, 2020
India’ strategy is all about ensuring that all five fingers were more closely attached to India, not China. And the Chinese line of thought was that it is China’s responsibility to “liberate” the five fingers. by Tsewang Dorji 4 July 2020 China warned India that it will open new fronts in the Himalayas
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A Consular Mistake By Russia: The Black Monday 2020 0
- Commentary
- July 3, 2020
by Divyanshi and Archit Shukla 3 July 2020 The Pandemic Covid – 19 has created a macabre situation which has disturbed the whole world mentally as well as economically. Many superpowers are trying to save their GDPs but unable to do so. Oil is a profitable sector to invest in as it provides
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US Wants India to Stand up to China. It Can Do That Only With American Aid and Tech Support 0
- Commentary
- July 3, 2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Donald Trump at Hyderabad House by Aparna Pande Hudson Institute 3 July 2020 The Covid pandemic offers India and the United States an opportunity to bolster their partnership. The large-scale loss of human life, social disruption, and economic devastation caused by the pandemic will almost certainly be
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Urban Biodiversity 0
- Commentary
- July 3, 2020
by Pratiksha Baruah 3 July 2020 Introduction Globally, towns and cities are rapidly growing in area and population. If current trends continue, the global urban population is estimated to be 6.3 billion with more than 60% of the projected area to be urban by 2030 as predicted by United Nations. This continuous urban
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Is the Corona epidemic bringing about the collapse of the unipolar world? Is the rise of China going to give birth to a new bipolar world order?0
- Commentary
- July 2, 2020
by Rahul Das 2 July 2020 Speculation and predictions have begun about what the world system will be like in the aftermath of the corona epidemic. From political scientists to diplomats, politicians, businessmen, researchers, academicians everyone has started giving different interpretations of this issue. The question is whether the existence of the unipolar world
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India/China Clash and South Asia: Discordant Mindsets, Changing Dynamics and the Way Forward 0
- Commentary
- July 2, 2020
File image of Indian and Chinese soldiers jointly marching duirng the New Year 2019 PTI Photo “It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened” ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things by M Adil Khan — July 2, 2020 India’s Galwan Debacle Recently, in a gun-less
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Economic Crisis Does Little to Dampen Mohammed bin Salman’s Pricey Ambitions 0
- Commentary
- July 1, 2020
by James M. Dorsey 1 July 2020 An initial version of this story was first published in Inside Arabia A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, Podbean, Audecibel, Patreon and Castbox. The hiring by Saudi Arabia of an international public relations firm
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Food Politics: Food and Hindutva 0
- Commentary
- July 1, 2020
by Yuvraj Trivedi 1 July 2020 In his essay “Gastro-Politics in Hindu South Asia”, Appadurai points to how a “fundamental fact” about food is that it has the power to evoke strong emotional responses (Appadurai, p.494). This is not only true for an individual’s private space, in which food can evoke a range of
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Book review: Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army 0
- Commentary, Reviews
- June 30, 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1503611986 ISBN-10: 1503611981 by Maria Rashid Stanford University Press, Stanford California, paperback, 267 pgs. $28 by Arnold Zeitlin 30 June 2020 Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army, by Maria Rashid, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, paperback, 267 pgs. $28, ISBN: 978-1-5036-1198-6 Psychologist Maria Rashid has produced
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Indo-China Conflict: Is it Geopolitics Or Geo-Economics?0
- Commentary
- June 30, 2020
by Mohammad Imran Hossain 30 June 2020 The recent skirmish between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the line of control raised questions in the international media that that could trigger a border dispute and may turn into a large-scale military conflict between the two nuclear powers and may lead to long term regional
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Indian sub-continent sets to improve in the journo-murder index 0
- Commentary
- June 30, 2020
by Nava Thakuria 30 June 2020 As the pandemic year 2020 rolls on, Indian subcontinent sets to improve in its journo-murder index with only two casualties this year to date. The first half of the year witnessed the murder of one scribe each in Pakistan and India for their journalistic works, whereas Bangladesh,
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Has ‘Big Brother’ India failed to perceive the people’s voice?0
- Commentary
- June 29, 2020
by M A Hossain 29 June 2020 India and China, the two nuclear-armed Asian giants were in a significant escalation of a weeks-long standoff at Galwan valley in the western Himalayas. Nepalese people are becoming furious with India as regards transgression of borders demarcation. Pakistan has intensified border skirmishes along with Jammu and Kashmir border.
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Intra-Afghan peace; A potential stimulant for Afghanistan’s domestic revenues 0
- Commentary
- June 29, 2020
by Hamayun Khan 29 June 2020 On February 2, 2020 the United States and the Taliban reached peace deal, which opened doors were for the intra-Afghan talks – currently being put on hold. As per the US-Taliban peace deal, the USA has to outset withdrawal of its troops within the next 14 months. This
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Syllogism: China, India and the United States 0
- Commentary
- June 29, 2020
by Mian Hameed 29 June 2020 To assist with the concept of logical syllogism (deductive reasoning), in which a conclusion can pose a problem, and a conclusion from the same evidence and premise may differ among people with different ideologies. The conclusion at times from “delusions” may not be true if the premise
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