Showing posts with label SAAG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SAAG. Show all posts

Friday, 25 March 2016

Myanmar: From Elections to Formation of the New Government (C. S. Kuppuswamy, SAAG)

http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/node/1961

India’s Foreign Policy Challenges in the Middle East 2016 (Subhash Kapila, SAAG)

India in 2016 is faced with serious foreign policy predicaments in its Middle East foreign policy formulations in terms of coherent strategic choices cutting through the complicated maze of regional power rivalries and a return of Great Power interventions casting complicated shadows on regional power-play.

http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/node/1960

Friday, 4 March 2016

China Rattled by Growing US-India Strategic Convergence on South China Sea Issue-Part II (Dr Subhash Kapila, SAAG)

In continuation of Paper No. 6081 dated 01 March 2016 a similar sabre-rattling by China against India has come to notice which seems to suggest that China using different mouth-pieces has begun a calibrated campaign against India to submit to Chinese pressures and back-off from any strategic proximity to the United States.

http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/node/1955

China: Current Complex Domestic Situation (D. S. Rajan, SAAG)

There is no need to emphasize the need for the outside world to know about what is happening inside China, the second largest economy in the world and a rising power with enormous political and military clout globally.

China Rattled by Growing US-India Strategic Convergence on South China Sea Issues (Dr Subhash Kapila, SAAG)

Rattled by growing US-India strategic convergence on South China Sea issue, China in a manifestation of its imperial inclinations towards India has recently resorted to issuing proxy injunctions through its state-run media organ ‘The Global Times’ warning India to desist from any joint initiatives with the United States.

http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/node/1952

Nepal: PM Oli’s (Un)Successful Visit To India (Dr. S. Chandrasekharan, SAAG)

Prime Minister Oli finally condescended to make an official six days visit to India from 19th February. Despite some advice from his close friends to visit China first and thus give a message to India, he chose to wait for the supposed “blockade” to be withdrawn before he could visit Delhi. There is an impression current in the valley that he has done India a “favour.”

http://www.eurasiareview.com/04032016-nepal-pm-olis-unsuccessful-visit-to-india-analysis/

Thursday, 25 February 2016

United States Cannot Afford Two Concurrent Cold Wars (Subhash Kapila, SAAG)

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China foisted Cold War II on the United States in the first decade of the 21st Century and which has in 2015 assumed clearer contours and that leads to the crucial question whether the United States can afford a concurrent revival of Cold War I with Russia in support of Saudi Arabia’s and Turkey’s regional power-play with Iran.

http://www.eurasiareview.com/25022016-united-states-cannot-afford-two-concurrent-cold-wars-analysis/

Tuesday, 23 February 2016

New Capability And Reach Of China’s Navy: Strategic And Tactical Implications In South China Sea And Indian Ocean Region (Commodore RS Vasan IN Retd, SAAG)

The PLA-Navy continues to be in the news as China is determined to add to its growing maritime capability to build a blue water navy of form and substance. The addition of a new assets to the PLA on a regular basis provides a power projection capability not just within the confines of the South China Sea where it has territorial claims contested by other littorals in the region., but also in the in the Indian Ocean. The recent assertive maneuvers by the US Navy in consonance with the Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPS) has not been a source of comfort for China. Likewise, the efforts of Philippines to internationalise the South China Dispute by taking the case to ICJ has not endeared it to China which did not want any embarrassment.

http://www.eurasiareview.com/23022016-new-capability-and-reach-of-chinas-navy-strategic-and-tactical-implications-in-south-china-sea-and-indian-ocean-region-analysis/