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  • The Naxal Approach to Multinational Corporations: A Critique
    Souvik Chatterji    ·   13 Aug, 2012    ·    #3699    ·    Commentary    
    The Naxal opposition to the multinational corporations (MNCs) entering the Indian economy is a wrong approach. The Naxals in different parts of the country feel that the entering of the MNCs in different sectors can lead to unemployment among th...
  • Indian Membership to the NSG: American Interests and Chinese Opposition
    Debak Das    ·   09 Aug, 2012    ·    #3698    ·    Commentary    
    The recently concluded third India-US Strategic Dialogue has been a remarkable exhibition of the strengthening bilateral relationship between the two states. The dialogue meanwhile has also delivered a much needed fillip to the issue of the prospe...
  • ‘Chinese Checkers’ at the Nuclear Suppliers Group
    Arun Vishwanathan    ·   07 Aug, 2012    ·    #3697    ·    Commentary    
    The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) held its annual plenary session in Seattle on 21-22 June 2012. As in the previous two plenary meetings, the issue of Indian membership to the NSG and the Pakistani-Chinese claim of supply of two additional nucle...
  • South China Sea Dispute Round II: ASEAN Fails to Bite the Bullet
    Ranjit B Rai    ·   06 Aug, 2012    ·    #3696    ·    Commentary    
    The concerns over China’s strident ‘9 dot claim line’ over the Parcels and Spratlys islands as its ‘sovereign sea’ on historical grounds to gain EEZ and territory, vis-a-vis ASEAN’s joint objections have som...
  • Confucius Institutes in America: Soft Power or Propaganda?
    Narayani Basu    ·   31 Jul, 2012    ·    #3695    ·    Commentary    
    Since their launch in 2004, the Beijing-backed Confucius Institutes have been no strangers to controversy. While their defenders liken them to the Chinese equivalents of the Goethe Institute, the Alliance Francaise and the British Council, their...
  • China’s One-Child Policy: The Debate Revives
    Namrata Hasija    ·   31 Jul, 2012    ·    #3694    ·    Commentary    
    The one-child policy was first introduced in China in 1979, soon after liberalization to control the growing population. The policy exempted only ethnic minorities and also relaxed some norms for rural couples. Its ruthless implementation result...
  • The Nimoo-Bazgo Hydroelectric Power Project: Potential and Future Prospects
    Zainab Akhter    ·   31 Jul, 2012    ·    #3693    ·    Commentary    
    The Government of Pakistan has decided not to file a lawsuit in the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) over the controversial 45MW Nimoo-Bazgo hydroelectric power project on River Indus in Leh. Pakistan took this decision during the secret...
  • Sino-Bhutan Relations: Implications for Indian Security
    Teshu Singh    ·   31 Jul, 2012    ·    #3692    ·    Commentary    
    In a historic congregation Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Bhutanese counterpart Mr. Jigmi Y. Thinley held their first meeting on the sidelines of United Nation Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil. The meeting has raised fe...
  • Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty: What is Holding it Up?
    Shubhra Chaturvedi    ·   31 Jul, 2012    ·    #3691    ·    Commentary    
    The meeting of ASEAN members with the P5 held in Cambodia in July 2012 that aimed at the early accession of the SEANWFZ Protocol met its expected fate. As a result of the P5 reservations, the discussion has been postponed till November 2012 like a...
  • China’s London Dreams: ‘The Beats of China, Move the World’
    Bhavna Singh    ·   31 Jul, 2012    ·    #3690    ·    Commentary    
    When Zhang Boling initiated the Nankai system of schools to rid China of its image as the ‘sick man of Asia,’ he could have barely imagined China becoming the next sports superpower. Yet this seems almost a possibility today. Bagging...
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