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China’s Water Ambitions May Leave Neighbors Dry0
- Blog, Environment
- March 14, 2020
Will Peyton 13 March 2020 Will Peyton has recently completed a PhD in Chinese studies at the Australian National University and has been based in Taipei as a visiting scholar at the Center for Chinese Studies in the National Central Library. Subscribe Add to FavoriteTry out the new features! What you need to know China’s extensive dam
Bangladesh: Crackdown on Critics, Activists – HRW0
Bangladesh Dangerous Clampdown on Freedoms in Rohingya Refugee Camps Events of 2019 Languages Bengali English Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League government ignored calls during the year for an independent investigation into serious allegations of electoral fraud after the December 2018 national elections. Impunity for abuses by security forces, including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, remained pervasive.
From Kargil to Balakot: The continuing challenges to India’s modern air power0
- Blog
- March 13, 2020
Angad Singh 23 March 2020 Most leading air forces around the world were quick to learn from the experiences of the US Air Force between the Vietnam War in the 1960s and the Gulf War three decades later. This resulted in the widespread adoption by these forces of Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) beginning in the
Five Years of India’s Act East Policy and the way Ahead0
- Blog
- March 12, 2020
by Dr Udai Bhanu Singh – 4 March, 2020 India’s Look East Policy (LEP), upgraded to Act East Policy in 2014 has attempted to establish some milestones in the last five years (2014-2019) while struggling with the umpteen challenges. At the ASEAN-India Summit at Naypyidaw in 2014 when PM Modi declared: “Externally India’s Look East Policy has
BIMSTEC and the fourth industrial revolution: The role of technology in regional development | ORF0
- Blog
- March 12, 2020
Issue Briefs and Special Reports Mar 11 2020 Soumya Bhowmick and Pratnashree Basu After a hiatus of almost two decades, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) appears poised to once again assume significance in regional affairs. The renewed vigour has already resulted in a fresh agreement on tangible areas
Global Health Security – COVID-19: Is the Humanitarian Sector Prepared?0
- Blog
- March 12, 2020
By Lina Gong 12 March 2020 SYNOPSIS An outpouring of international humanitarian aid to China has alleviated the severe shortage of key medical supplies in its fight against an outbreak of COVID-19. This highlights the role humanitarian aid plays in managing the risk of pandemics. COMMENTARY THE SEVERE shortage of critical medical supplies was a
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Mending Gulf fences could weaken support for US sanctions against Iran0
- Commentary
- November 24, 2019
By James M. Dorsey 24 November 2019 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, Podbean, Audecibel, Patreon and Castbox. Saudi efforts to negotiate an end to the Yemen war in a bid to open a dialogue with Iran could call into question continued Gulf
Employee of UK-based Bangladeshi businessman dies in custody0
- Commentary
- November 24, 2019
Employee of UK-based Bangladeshi businessman dies in custody Johirul Haque Khandaker, a former army captain, was picked up from his Dhaka home in January. by David Bergman 22 Nov 2019 An employee of a United Kingdom-based Bangladeshi businessman, whose whereabouts remained unknown for eight months after he was picked up by law enforcement personnel back
Sri Lanka: Bury the past, Mr President Gota!0
- Commentary
- November 23, 2019
N Sathiya Moorthy 20 November 2019 If there is a lesson that fellow politicians in the country can learn from President Gotabhaya Nandasena Rajapaksa, it is the utmost dedication and sincerity of purpose that he displayed on the job on hand, or for which he needed to prepare himself. As Defence Secretary, he would not
India’s migration politics could lead to disaster: Statesman contributor0
- Commentary
- November 23, 2019
In his article, the author warns that India’s attempt to root out illegal Bangladeshi migrants will give fodder to Islamic extremists that have been largely kept under control. BZ Khasru 22 November 2019 KOLKATA (THE STATESMAN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – India’s migration politics – an assertion that there are 40 million Bangladeshi migrants illegally living in
India: Intimations of an Ending. The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right.1
- Commentary, Featured
- November 23, 2019
By Arundhati Roy 22 November 2019 While protest reverberates on the streets of Chile, Catalonia, Britain, France, Iraq, Lebanon, and Hong Kong, and a new generation rages against what has been done to their planet, I hope you will forgive me for speaking about a place where the street has been taken over by something
Bengali Hindus leaving India for Bangladesh, raising intriguing questions0
- Commentary, Issue 31 – Winter 2020
- November 21, 2019
21 November 2019 For more than a hundred years, the ratio of Hindu population in the Indian subcontinent has been declining. The dip, from 75.1 percent in 1881 to 72.9 percent in 1901, in British India created a paranoid reaction that Muslims would outnumber Hindus. This myth has been repeated after every census ever since.The
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With little leverage to impede Bangladesh’s authoritarianism, US policy towards the country will continue to be primarily transactional
With little leverage to impede Bangladesh’s authoritarianism, US policy towards the country will continue to be primarily transactional. Biden-Bangladesh: Back to square one William B Milam January 21, 2021 A picture of Joe Biden as Democratic candidate taken in February 2020. He was inaugurated as US President on January 20th 2021. Photo: Julien Kouame/Alamy When
Post-Trump World: Is Democracy Dying in America As Well?
by Taj Hashmi 22 January 2021 We know it’s fashionable to hypothesize that democracy is “dying” in the post-Cold War world. It’s true not only for some of the postcolonial democracies in the Third World and some “new democracies” Eastern Europe, but of late, seemingly, it’s also true about the United States. I
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