COMMENTARIES
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Trump’s Tariffs and a Looming Trade War: India's Stakes
Ayan Tewari · 17 Apr, 2018 · #5458 · Commentary
As US President Donald Trump imposes steel and aluminium tariffs on most countries, India is in a unique position to capitalise on the situation. Trump...
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Maritime Matters
New Technologies Demand New Laws and Ethics
Vijay Sakhuja · 16 Apr, 2018 · #5457 · Commentary · Column
The Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) met in Geneva earlier this month and emphasised the critical necessity to ban "fully autonomous weapon systems." They urged states to move towards negotiating a leg...
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East Asia Compass
Regional Stability and Japan's Irresponsible Political Gambit
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 06 Apr, 2018 · #5456 · Commentary · Column
It is a critical time for the North Korean nuclear and missile issue, and South Korea, the US and other stakeholder states have accorded it their highest priority. Japan, however, is focusing its primary attention on the abduction of its citizens ...
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Maritime Matters
Game-changing Technologies for Future Naval Operations
Vijay Sakhuja · 31 Mar, 2018 · #5455 · Commentary · Column
Two new weapon technologies - Solid State Lasers (SSLs) and Electromagnetic Railgun (EMRG) - can augment ship defence against incoming missiles, high speed projectiles and unmanned vehicles/drones. Experts argue that if these are successfully depl...
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From Bangladesh to Myanmar: Repatriation of Rohingya Refugees
Angshuman Choudhury · 27 Mar, 2018 · #5454 · Commentary
23 March 2018 marks two months since the first wave of repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh was to begin through a bilateral agreement with Myanmar signed in November 2017.Since then, not a single refugee - of the 6,88,000 new arriv...
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Has India Changed its Tibet Policy?
Palden Sonam · 23 Mar, 2018 · #5453 · Commentary
Does the recent circular from the Prime Minister Modi government advising high functionaries and leaders to avoid a Tibetan event represent a change in India...
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Bangladesh: Political Polarisation and Resurgence of Terrorism
Krishna Kumar Saha · 22 Mar, 2018 · #5452 · Commentary
On 27 February 2018, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added ‘ISIS-Bangladesh’ to its sanctions list for global terrorism. Following months of denial from Dhaka about the presence of the Islamic State (IS) ...
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Dateline Colombo
Racism, Riots, and the Sri Lankan State
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera · 19 Mar, 2018 · #5451 · Commentary · Column
Only when fear and hatred is spread by extremists does serious reflection haunt a community. The teardrop-shaped island of Sri Lanka, a seeming paradise hanging off the Indian subcontinent, has been provoked yet again. Within a few hours arose...
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China-India Relations: What is the Role of Third Parties?
Siwei Liu · 16 Mar, 2018 · #5450 · Commentary
Despite the intensification of high-level interactions between China and India in recent years, the current situation can at best be described as complex and sensitive. The bilateral relationship is quite complicated by itself, and 'third-pa...
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Decoding the Elections in Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura
Nasreen Habib · 15 Mar, 2018 · #5449 · Commentary
The recent assembly elections in the three Northeastern states, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura, made one thing crystal clear: the BJP's ability to strike smart alliances has turned things around in its favour. Its wins range from ousting the Le...
