COMMENTARIES
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The Challenges to Humanitarian Aid in Sudan
Angelina Jain · 30 Jan, 2026 · #5903 · Commentary
Sudan is currently locked in a civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, both fighting for control over the country. With fighting ongoing si...
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BIMSTEC: Reviving Global Climate Leadership through Regional Minilateralism
Tapan Bharadwaj. · 25 Jan, 2026 · #5902 · Commentary
Though hailed as the “implementation COP,” COP30 in Brazil this year, like its earlier iterations, concluded without any clear plans for future action. Weak climate leadership and poor implementation have become a clear pattern at annual COP m...
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East Asia Compass
The Significance of Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi’s Taiwan Statement
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 20 Jan, 2026 · #5901 · Commentary · Column
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s “ad-libbed” remark at the Lower House Budget Committee, while responding to the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) lawmaker Katsuya Okada, has made a lot of waves. She said that a Chinese military...
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The Merz Visit and Strategic Realism in the India-Germany Partnership
Ashutosh Nagda · 20 Jan, 2026 · #5900 · Commentary
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to India on 12-13 January marked his first trip to Asia since his inauguration as Chancellor in May 2025. The visit also commemorated 75 years of diplomatic ties and 25 years of strategic partnership betw...
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Strategic Space
Living in a House of Dynamite: The Dilemmas of Nuclear Decision-Making
Manpreet Sethi · 07 Jan, 2026 · #5899 · Commentary · Column
Kathryn Bigelow, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, describes the contemporary nuclear scenario as ‘a house of dynamite’. The nine nuclear-armed states are inmates in a house (Earth), with each accumulating more dynamite (nuclear warheads) an...
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Mapping the Maldives: Why Hydrography is the New Geopolitics of the Indian Ocean
Sayantan Bandyopadhyay · 26 Dec, 2025 · #5898 · Commentary
Malé, the capital of the Maldives, witnessed a large ‘Lootuvaifi’ (‘Stop the Looting’) rally on 3 October 2025. This was the biggest public demonstration against President Mohamed Muizzu since his election. The opposition Maldives Democra...
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Identity Erasure and China’s Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet
Janhavi Pande · 05 Dec, 2025 · #5897 · Commentary
Tibet has seen sweeping ‘reforms’ in education since Xi Jinping’s rise to power in China. Besides fostering a general sense of legitimacy for the Communist Party among young Tibetans, Beijing is now looking to assimilate them into Chinese so...
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Strategic Space
Testing Times: Likely Responses and Implications
Manpreet Sethi · 18 Nov, 2025 · #5896 · Commentary · Column
This Halloween, President Trump spooked the world by instructing his Department of War to restart nuclear testing. The US stopped underground explosive testing in 1992 after having conducted 1,030 nuclear tests. But Trump wants to restart it becau...
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East Asia Compass
The Regional Fallout of Trumpian Chaos: APEC and East Asia
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 30 Sep, 2025 · #5895 · Commentary · Column
The leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will meet in Gyeongju, South Korea, in late October 2025 to deliberate on “Building a Sustainable Tomorrow.” As per speculations, trade, innovation, sustainability, and digital transf...
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Pakistan’s Internal Securitisation is the Real Crisis
Muneer Ahmed · 29 Aug, 2025 · #5894 · Commentary
For generations, Pakistanis have lived with security shaping many aspects of daily life. Now, as internal pressures mount, the grip of securitisation may tighten even more. Pakistan being increasingly governed by the dynamics of internal securitis...
