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Myanmar: Military Response to Snowballing Public Protests
(This may be read in continuation with article China and the popular unrest in Myanmar dated September 20, 2007) After seeing the massive...

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Sep 26, 20077 min read
Myanmar: Dilemma of India and China
With the Myanmar military junta determined, if need be, to unleash another bloodbath reminiscent of that of 1988, in order to re-assert...

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Sep 26, 20073 min read
China and the Popular Unrest in Myanmar
China enjoys very close economic and military relations with the military regime in Myanmar. Perhaps it is one of the very few countries...

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Sep 20, 20076 min read
Seeing China from Chengdu
(The writer visited Sichuan from August 26 to 31,2007) The Chinese leadership and people continue to prove foreign skeptics wrong and...

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Sep 19, 20077 min read
Is the Emerging Asian Security Paradigm a Threat to China?
The “Malabar CY 07-2” naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal held in the first week of September, 2007 undoubtedly represent a major shift...

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Sep 11, 20078 min read
China: Media Fears Over India Becoming Part of Western Alliance
Sino-Indian relations are progressing steadily. Bilateral economic and trade ties are improving significantly and strategically, both the...

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Aug 29, 20076 min read
Maritime Counter-Terrorism—Indian Navy's Lead Over China
The attack, stated to be by Al Qaeda, on the US naval ship USS Cole at Aden in October, 2000, and the subsequent investigation into that...

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Aug 24, 200724 min read
India and the US-Sponsored Pax Democratica
In an article titled “Democratisation And Failed States: The Challenge of Ungovernability” published in the summer 1996 issue of...

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Aug 23, 200710 min read
India and Japan: Impact of Relationship on China
There is an economic and a strategic angle to India’s expectations from the current visit of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, who...

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Aug 22, 20078 min read
China's Interest Is Our Interest
The current opposition of the leftist parties—particularly, the Communist Party of India (Marxist)— to the agreement (the so-called 123...

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Aug 19, 20074 min read
Beijing Hardens Its Stand on the India-US Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
Amidst latest media reports on China-Pakistan negotiations over a civil nuclear cooperation agreement, similar to that between the US and...

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Aug 19, 20076 min read
Trade With India:Pakistan Starts Emulating China?
During his visit to Pakistan in December,1996, Mr.Jiang Zemin, the then Chinese President, made a speech titled “Carrying Forward...

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Aug 17, 20075 min read
Reflections on Indian and Chinese Communities in Southeast Asia
(Paper presented in the International Seminar on India-China Cultural Dialogue, jointly organised by the University of Madras and Fu Dan...

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Aug 12, 200729 min read
China and the 123 Agreement: An Update
Between July, 2005, when India and the US agreed in principle on civilian nuclear co-operation, and June, 2006, Beijing’s reaction was...

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Aug 12, 200715 min read
India-China Cultural Relations: Historical Perspective
(Based on the writer’s presentation at the University of Madras symposium jointly held with Fudan University, Shanghai on 7, 8 and 9...

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Aug 11, 200711 min read
China-India Cooperation In Science And Technology
(Text of Paper presented by Mr.D.S.Rajan, Director, Chennai Centre for China Studies (CCCS) at the ‘Symposium on India-China Cultural...

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Aug 8, 20078 min read
India-China-Myanmar Relations
(Based on keynote address delivered by the writer at an Interaction on “Emerging India-China-Myanmar Relations”, jointly organised by the...

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Jul 21, 200714 min read
Myanmar: Ethical and Strategic Dimensions
(Based on observations made by the writer while chairing an Interaction on ‘Emerging India-China-Myanmar Relations’, jointly organised by...

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Jul 20, 20075 min read
China: Why Scholars Are Revisiting The Tibet-India Border fixed by the British-Tibet Treaty (1914)
The consistent claim of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been that the then Central Government was not a party to both the Simla...

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Jul 8, 20076 min read
India's "Agni-III" Missile in the Eyes of Chinese Strategic Experts
The official reaction from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to India’s successful flight test on 12 April 2007, of a nuclear-capable...

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Jun 29, 20076 min read
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