Setback to Abe’s New Energy Policy as Court Halts Restarts of Nuclear Reactors
In a landmark ruling regarding nuclear plants, the Fukui District Court ordered on 21 May 2014 Kansai Electric Power Company (Kepco) that...
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May 19, 201416 min read
Modi’s likely Foreign Policy Priorities
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance scored a resounding victory in the 16th General Elections in India when...
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May 13, 201411 min read
Japan’s Strategic Engagement with Europe
Introduction Politics in Japan are undergoing interesting churnings with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s dual activism in domestic theatre...
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Apr 28, 201413 min read
Obama’s Visit to Asia: an Assessment
During his six-day Asian tour to Asia-Pacific region, his sixth as US President, US President Barack Obama visited first Japan on 23...
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Apr 22, 20147 min read
Sri Lanka: Tweaking the Muslims – Up date No 243
Why Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa is tweaking the Muslim community, which by and large had been his loyal political partner? Since 2012...
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Mar 29, 201416 min read
Japan-South Korea-US Trilateral – Breaking Ice in East Asia?
The third Nuclear Security Summit that concluded at The Hague on 25 March may have achieved its purpose of strengthening nuclear...
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Mar 24, 201411 min read
Henderson Brooks Report on 1962 War: ‘Secrecy’ an Ostrich Act
There is nothing new about the Henderson Brooks- P S Bhagat Report, the only fact that is established by Neville Maxwell by uploading it...
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Mar 5, 20148 min read
Sri Lanka’s third showdown at UNHRC
Sri Lanka will face the flak at the 25th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the third time this week when the US fields...
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Mar 4, 201417 min read
Assessing Park Geun-hye’s One Year in Office
On 25 February 2014, Park Geun-hye completed one year in office as President of South Korea. Much as it was expected, she had trounced...
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Feb 27, 201411 min read
Sri Lanka in the Geopolitical Radars of India and China
As the new Chinese administration, under President Xi Jinping, is set to complete its first year in office we in India gear up for the...
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Feb 26, 20147 min read
Impact of Obama-Dalai Lama Meet on Sino-US Ties
Notwithstanding the Chinese assertiveness in recent times on territorial matters, thereby straining its ties with its immediate...
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Feb 25, 201413 min read
Dark Sides of North Korea: Crime against Humanity
Introduction North Korea’s nuclear proliferation activities and belligerent threats on its southern neighbor are news that has been...
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Feb 25, 201411 min read
Thaw in China-Taiwan Relations
Amidst China’s territorial assertiveness that has strained its ties with neighbours, there seems to be a thaw in its relations with...
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Feb 23, 20146 min read
Bangladesh: The Importance of Being Tarique Rahman
(The article below may be of interest taking into account a press report of The Sunday Guardian,31 October 2010, captioned “Khaleda Son...
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Feb 17, 20147 min read
China: Xi Jinping’s Foreign Policy – From Open Hegemony to Covert Hegemony?
Abstract This article assesses the formulation, shifting preferences and changing directions of the foreign policy of the People’s...
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Feb 17, 201411 min read
Kerry’s Visit to Asia: Defusing escalating regional tensions
Amidst escalating regional tensions in Asia, US Secretary of State John Kerry undertook a six-day trip to Asia on 13 February 2014 with a...
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Feb 17, 20145 min read
Inter-Korea Dialogue Makes Little Progress but Welcome Step for Peace
In yet another round of charm offensive by North Korea, it proposed to South Korea to hold senior-level meetings, to which South Korea...
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Feb 17, 20148 min read
Philippines seeks legal solution to disputes over South China Sea with China
Recently, China has started claims to the whole of South China Sea, thereby sending a sense of unease throughout Asia. As a result, the...
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Feb 16, 20144 min read
South China Sea: Explicit Assertion by United States Disputing China’s Nine Dash Line
The United States for the first time in response to China’s growing intransigence and brinkmanship in the Western Pacific on its maritime...
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Feb 3, 20147 min read
Bangla Court Establishes BNP-JAMAAT Fountainhead of Terrorism
A special court in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced (Jan 30) 14 to death. They were the principals in illegally...
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