COMMENTARIES
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India’s ambitions in Myanmar: A Chinese Perspective
Peng Nian · 04 Jun, 2012 · #3629 · Commentary
On 29 May, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ended its three-day visit to Myanmar, after meeting the democratic movement leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. It was understood that the two countries signed 12 agreements covering national security, borde...
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Factionalism in China: Between ‘Princelings’ and ‘Tuanpai’
Shreya Singh · 01 Jun, 2012 · #3628 · Commentary
With the conclusion of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping will be the President of the People’s Republic of China and Li Keqiang, the Premier. Xi Jinping is from the ‘princeling’ faction and Li...
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IPCS Review: Fixing Pakistan’s Civil-Military Imbalance
Rana Banerji · 30 May, 2012 · #3627 · Commentary
The timing of Moeed Yousuf’s paper counselling against any deliberate accentuation of the civil-military divide in Pakistan is intriguing, especially when US-Pakistan relations are at an unprecedented nadir and domestic consternation in Pa...
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Nepali Winter in an Era of Arab Spring
Nishchal N Pandey · 29 May, 2012 · #3626 · Commentary
Nepal is yet again in international headlines, and yet again, for the wrong reasons. Without completing its primary task, the first ever Constituent Assembly (CA) elected to draft a democratic, republican and a federal constitution was dissolved a...
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India’s Look East Policy: Implications for the Philippines
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III · 29 May, 2012 · #3625 · Commentary
India’s Look East policy (LEP) of cultivating good relations with Southeast Asia presents opportunities as well as challenges for the Philippines. In Manila’s attempt to diversify its security partners and move away from over relianc...
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Reading Pakistan: Imprisonment for Helping Nab bin Laden
D Suba Chandran · 28 May, 2012 · #3624 · Commentary
Pakistan never fails to amaze people; the latest one to arouse such sentiment is the prison sentence by an assistant political agent of Khyber Agency to a doctor who helped trace Osama bin Laden. Why this hurry, when the killers of Benazir Bhutt...
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Hacienda Luisita Verdict in the Philippines: A Print Media Analysis
Amruta Karambelkar · 25 May, 2012 · #3623 · Commentary
The Supreme Court of Philippines upheld its November 2011 decision ordering the break-up of an estate in Hacienda Luisita owned by Conjuangcos, family of President Benigno Aquino lll. In a landmark decision, the 5000 hectare sugar estate will now ...
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Ceasefire Deals: The Pains of Myanmar's Transition
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 23 May, 2012 · #3622 · Commentary
Emerging from a nine hour-long closed door negotiation with the Shan State Army-South (SSA-South) leader Yawd Serk on 19 May in the Shan state capital Kengtung, Aung Min, Myanmar's railway minister and the chief negotiator of ceasefire agree...
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Reading Pakistan: Reopening the NATO Supply Line
D Suba Chandran · 21 May, 2012 · #3621 · Commentary
The NATO supply line into Afghanistan via Karachi and the rest of Pakistan seems to have already opened with four trucks of the American embassy crossing the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. What did Pakistan achieve by first closing the supply line...
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Nepal: What is the Potential for Foreign Investment?
Pradeepa Viswanathan · 21 May, 2012 · #3620 · Commentary
Beginning 2010, with the affirmation by Chinese entrepreneurs (during the 11th meeting of the Nepal-China Non-Government Cooperation Forum) and a US delegation (American Chambers of Commerce in India) about the investment potential in Nepal, Kat...
