COMMENTARIES
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China’s Ballistic Missile Defence Counter-Measures
Debalina Chatterjee · 26 Sep, 2011 · #3468 · Commentary
In 2002 the Janes Missiles and Rockets Report announced that China conducted tests of counter-measures on CSS-5 Ballistic Missiles. China’s ballistic missiles possess counter-measures against BMD by penetrating into an enemy’s territ...
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Free Expression on Weibo: An Alternate to Facebook, Twitter?
Alpana Verma · 26 Sep, 2011 · #3467 · Commentary
China has the highest number of Internet users worldwide (485 Million). The introduction of social networking sites (SNS) since 2009 has given impetus to the usage of internet in China. People are flocking the weibo to be in vogue and keep up to...
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Rising Suicide Rates among Rural Women in China
Namrata Hasija · 26 Sep, 2011 · #3466 · Commentary
“China is the only country where suicides among women outnumber men”
-Yang Fude, Vice-president, Beijing Hui Guan Hospital
A study released on 9 September 2011, a day before the World Suicide Prevention Day, by the ...
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Af-Pak Diary: From Ahmad Shah Massoud to Rabbani
D Suba Chandran · 26 Sep, 2011 · #3465 · Commentary
Early this month, Burhanuddin Rabbani, former President of Afghanistan was assassinated by a Taliban suicide bomber. Why did the Taliban brutally dispose off Rabbani, the leader of Afghan Peace Council, which was entrusted with the responsibilit...
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Cultures of China : An Exposition
Teshu Singh · 26 Sep, 2011 · #3464 · Commentary
Culture is the bedrock of soft power projection. Keenly aware of this, the People’s Republic of China has started a touring cultural exposition - the ‘Cultures of China’ aimed at North America, Japan and Southeast Asia. The tou...
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Ten Years After: ‘Terror Franchisees’ as an Evolving Phenomenon
D Suba Chandran · 26 Sep, 2011 · #3463 · Commentary
An article in the series ‘Ten Years After’ written by Medha Chaturvedi (http://bit.ly/qL9xa0) focuses on ‘terror outsourcing’ as a new phenomenon of the last ten years. The author makes an interesting argument that region...
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Ten Years After: 'Terror Outsourcing' as an Evolving Phenomenon
Medha Chaturvedi · 25 Sep, 2011 · #3462 · Commentary
A decade ago, when al Qaeda attacked the New York Twin Towers, terrorism gained a new and bold dimension, stepping away from covert to more audacious attacks. Ten years hence, a lot has changed-the process of force withdrawal by the US from Afgh...
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Why don't Nuclear CBMs work?: Indian and Pakistani Perspectives
Pradeepa Viswanathan · 23 Sep, 2011 · #3461 · Commentary
As repeated attempts at confidence building remain far from implementation, this article look into two specific questions. One, what are the major impediments to nuclear CBMs between India and Pakistan and second, how similar or different are th...
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Iran’s Climb-down: The Quixotic Backdrop
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra · 22 Sep, 2011 · #3460 · Commentary
Iran’s seemingly conciliatory offer of allowing the UN 'full inspection' of nuclear facilities came out of the blue. Almost immediately opinions from the West dubbed this a 'delaying tactic'; and some other analysts claimed...
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The Anna Hazare Effect: Pakistan in Search
Ankita Shree · 21 Sep, 2011 · #3459 · Commentary
The Jan Lokpal Bill movement led by Anna Hazare that swept across India last month had a spill over effect in Pakistan generating a mixed response from this Islamic nation. This article analyzes the different responses that arose in Pakistan rel...
