DEFENCE & SECURITY 12/18

South China Sea: U.S. Commences Freedom of Navigation Patrol; By Carlyle A. Thayer

Nov 4, 201514 min read

South China Sea: U.S. Commences Freedom of Navigation Patrol; By Carlyle A. Thayer

C3S Paper No. 0196/2015 Patrol-1 : QUESTION: As you know, the U.S. Navy sent a guided-missile destroyer within 12 nautical miles of...

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Vietnam: Scene Setter for Visits by Xi Jinping & Obama; By Carlyle A. Thayer

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Nov 4, 20155 min read

Vietnam: Scene Setter for Visits by Xi Jinping & Obama; By Carlyle A. Thayer

C3S Paper No. 0194/2015 Q1. President and General Secretary Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit Vietnam next month. What is the main reason...

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Rising Terrorism can Derail Bangladesh; By Bhaskar Roy

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Oct 17, 20155 min read

Rising Terrorism can Derail Bangladesh; By Bhaskar Roy

C3S Paper No. 0188/2015 While the World Bank raised the status of Bangladesh to a lower middle – income country and World Bank...

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India’s Strategic Guardian of the Sky: IRNSS; By Vithiyapathy Purushothaman

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Aug 25, 201514 min read

India’s Strategic Guardian of the Sky: IRNSS; By Vithiyapathy Purushothaman

Occasional Paper – 001/2015 Courtesy: KW Publishers Dedicated to Missile Man Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Sir, who sowed the seeds of dreams...

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Making Sense of China’s New National Security Law; By D. S. Rajan

Chennai Centre for China Studies

Jul 20, 201525 min read

Making Sense of China’s New National Security Law; By D. S. Rajan

C3S Paper No. 0144/ 2015 Abstract It may not be wrong to say that China’s adoption of a New National Security Law on July 1, 2015 and a...

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India’s Strategic Dimensions in Malacca Strait By Vithiyapathy Purushothaman

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Mar 16, 201516 min read

India’s Strategic Dimensions in Malacca Strait By Vithiyapathy Purushothaman

C3S Paper No. 0069/ 2015 “To be secure on the land, we must be supreme at sea” – Jawaharlal Nehru. Over several decades the sea has...

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China: The Strategic Planning Of Defence Expenditure 2014

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Mar 10, 20148 min read

China: The Strategic Planning Of Defence Expenditure 2014

China’s declaration (March 5) raising its military budget for 2014 by 12.2% to almost $132 billion should not be surprising. In fact, it...

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China’s Increased Defence Budget and its Implications for India

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Feb 10, 20145 min read

China’s Increased Defence Budget and its Implications for India

In marked contrast to India’s regrettable declining defence budget expenditures in face of rising threats from China and Pakistan, one is...

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Nov 15, 201213 min read

The Vanishing Tail Lights- Widening Gulf in Strategic Technologies between India and China

Finally the breast beating and wailing seem to be dying down in India marking the occasion of 50th anniversary of the Sino – Indian war...

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Oct 30, 20124 min read

NEW MILTARY LEADERSHIP IS READY FOR TAKEOVER

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will be holding its 18th Party Congress from November 8, 2012, this Congress will be selecting the...

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Aug 9, 20126 min read

TIME FOR SPECIAL TASK FORCE ON MARITIME SECURITY

( Based on observations made by me at the inaugural session of a seminar on Maritime Security and Challenges in the Indian Ocean Region...

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Jul 2, 20122 min read

HOTAN HIJACKING BID INDICATES LAX AIRPORT SECURITY IN CHINA

More details have become available of the unsuccessful attempt to hijack a plane flying from Hotan to Urumqi in Xinjiang by six Uighurs...

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Jun 12, 20123 min read

GROUND & SEA REALITIES

I found during my recent interactions in New Delhi that our strategic thinking continues to be largely enchained to ground-based...

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Apr 21, 20124 min read

OUR CHINA-CENTRIC MILITARY CAPABILITY

We don’t need Agni-V, the intermediate range ballistic missile that we successfully tested on April 19,2012, to give ourselves a...

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Chennai Centre for China Studies

Apr 16, 201212 min read

China’s Development of its Military Aviation Sector

A heady cocktail of plagiarism, pilferage, piracy, subterfuge and deception but lots of lessons for India (Part – 1) China’s achievement...

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Mar 25, 201227 min read

China’s Response to Non-traditional Security Threats – I

Abstract Terror conceptually constitutes part of Non Traditional Security (NTS) threat. . Counter measures, if at all have to correspond...

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Mar 13, 20127 min read

China’s Defense Budget 2012- Forever Rising

It is that time of the year. China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) spokesman Li Zhaoxing declared on March 04 that China’s defense...

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Mar 13, 20127 min read

China’s Force Multipliers?

China’s penchant for breaching technological barriers has been in the news and is frequently being discussed in many forums. It is...

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Dec 14, 20115 min read

Indian Ocean Region: Chinese Strategic Thinking

China’s official Xinhua news agency disseminated the following report on December 12, 2011: “China said on Monday that its naval fleet...

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Dec 13, 20117 min read

China Stretching to Indian Ocean

While the international community was fixated on the developments in the South China Sea and the Asia Pacific Region (APR), something...

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