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  • PLA and China's Peaceful Development
    Kamlesh Kumar Agnihotri    ·   07 Dec, 2011    ·    #3508    ·    Commentary    
    Beijing, in the recent times, has taken great pains to convince the international community about its earnestness towards ‘Peaceful Development’. In the white paper on Chinese ‘Peaceful Development’ released on 6 Septembe...
  • Widening Gender Imbalance in China
    Namrata Hasija    ·   07 Dec, 2011    ·    #3507    ·    Commentary    
    Is China left with only ‘half the sky’? This question is being asked both inside and outside China which has 32 million more young men than women. The gender imbalance has augmented over the years; the gender ratio in 1982 was 108:10...
  • Suu Kyi and the Ethnic Minorities: Crackdown to Compromise
    Medha Chaturvedi    ·   05 Dec, 2011    ·    #3506    ·    Commentary    
    Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s ‘super-woman’ of democracy will be contesting the upcoming by-elections in the country in December. This statement from her publicist came soon after her party, the National League for Democracy, ann...
  • Rescuing Tribal India: The Nagaland Model
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   05 Dec, 2011    ·    #3505    ·    Commentary    
    An army brigade has been deployed for its jungle warfare training to Chhattisgarh for the second round. Reportedly it is located closer to the forested area than the brigade that had trained there earlier. With another such deployment, troops wo...
  • Iran and the Taliban: A Problematic Alliance
    Aryaman Bhatnagar    ·   02 Dec, 2011    ·    #3504    ·    Commentary    
    Iran has been accused of supplying weapons and providing training to the Taliban. The foreign troops in Afghanistan have often intercepted weapons, rockets and missiles that are said to have originated in Iran. Mohsen Milani in an interview to T...
  • Will China have an Anna Hazare?
    Bhavna Singh    ·   30 Nov, 2011    ·    #3503    ·    Commentary    
    The response from the Chinese blogosphere on the Indian social movement against corruption spearheaded by Anna Hazare was remarkable. Praising his dedication and commitment to social justice, the prominent magazine Caijing thro...
  • Norway in Sri Lanka: A Tale of the Failed Peace Process
    J Jeganaathan    ·   30 Nov, 2011    ·    #3502    ·    Commentary    
    In September 2011 the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) - a directorate under the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a report titled Pawns of Peace-‘Evaluation of Norwegian Peace Efforts in Sri Lanka, 1997-20...
  • Isolating Iran: Is it Counter-Productive?
    Anureet Rai    ·   30 Nov, 2011    ·    #3501    ·    Commentary    
    The alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US and the recent IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear programme have revived the West’s efforts to further isolate Iran through the imposition of sanctions. The possibilit...
  • Kodari Road: Implications for Nepal, China and India
    Chok Tsering    ·   30 Nov, 2011    ·    #3500    ·    Commentary    
    The expansion and construction of a road network in the border areas between Nepal and China presents new opportunities for Nepal to promote the overall development of its trade. Nepal signed a boundary treaty with China in 1961 by constructing ...
  • Reading Pakistan: What will follow the NATO Strikes?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   30 Nov, 2011    ·    #3499    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan has closed the NATO supply route and asked the US to vacate the Shamsi base. The prime minister has threatened that relations with the US would not be business as usual. What is next in US-Pakistan relations? Whom does the Shamsi ba...
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