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  • ECFA and the Changing China-Taiwan Relations
    Gunjan Singh    ·   02 Jul, 2010    ·    #3177    ·    Commentary    
    In a historic step, China and Taiwan are ready to sign the Economic Co-operation Framework Agreement (ECFA). It is expected that this trade agreement will be a great step in the ongoing economic integration. There will be a major lifting of tari...
  • Religious and Cultural Tourism across the LOC
    KD Maini    ·   02 Jul, 2010    ·    #3176    ·    Commentary    
    With upheaval and limitations on the movement of people across the LOC, there is a need to improve the cross-LOC interaction. The real Confidence Building Measure (CBM) between the two parts of Kashmir can be extended by strengthening the people...
  • The Maoist Threat: the Role of Risk Management Firms
    Prakash Pillai    ·   01 Jul, 2010    ·    #3175    ·    Commentary    
    The current debate of ‘people or profits’, with regards to the Maoist uprising, prevents big conglomerates from investing in the mineral rich states of India. The Maoists are now in 200 districts across 12 Indian states, stretching f...
  • China’s Dam on the Brahmaputra: Cause for Concern?
    Pia Malhotra    ·   30 Jun, 2010    ·    #3174    ·    Commentary    
    Even as India and Pakistan tussle over shared River waters and even as water threatens to become the next ‘core’ issue between the two countries, another region in the vicinity is emerging as an area of contention; India-China. When it...
  • India Checkmates Chinese Moves
    Ranjit B Rai    ·   29 Jun, 2010    ·    #3173    ·    Commentary    
    Small contentious issues in history are harbingers that tend to shape the larger power plays between nations. The naked truth in international affairs as articulated by strategist Paul Kennedy, is that India and China are two rising military and...
  • DRDO Restructuring: Boosting Self-Reliance?
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   28 Jun, 2010    ·    #3172    ·    Commentary    
    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, known for delivering his message in a subtle manner was frank enough to ask the state owned Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) to speed up research and development of new military technology as &l...
  • Should India give up its NFU Doctrine?
    Rabia Akhtar    ·   29 Jun, 2010    ·    #3171    ·    Commentary    
    A very interesting discourse has been generated on Indian No First Use (NFU) by Suba Chandran (Click here for the Article) and Ahmed Ali (Click here for the Article) on IPCS website questioning whether to do away with NFU or retain it, respectiv...
  • Should India give up its NFU Doctrine?
    Ali Ahmed    ·   25 Jun, 2010    ·    #3170    ·    Commentary    
    Suba Chandran has on this website made out a case for jettisoning the No First Use. In order for readers to make up their own minds, this article lays out a case for retaining the pillar of the doctrine as hither-to-fore. No First Use, simpl...
  • Should India give up its NFU Doctrine?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   24 Jun, 2010    ·    #3169    ·    Commentary    
    Doctrines are not static and are always linked to an objective. If the primary Indian objective is to have a stable nuclear South Asia, then New Delhi should consider giving up its No-First-Use doctrine (NFU), for the following three reasons. ...
  • Sino-Pak N-deal: a Setback to India-China Ties?
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   24 Jun, 2010    ·    #3168    ·    Commentary    
    The report on the formalization of the China-Pakistan nuclear deal between China Nuclear Power Corporation and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, similar to the landmark nuclear agreement with Indo-US civil nuclear deal signed in 2008, has c...
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