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Avoidable Unpleasantness in India – China Relations
Avoidable unpleasantness has recently crept into India-China relations over issues which should not have been over-dramatised by China...

upSpark Technologies
Nov 28, 20114 min read
China’s Impact on India-Nepal Relations
The increasingly loud and belligerent assertion of China’s claims in South China has become a matter of strategic concern for many...

upSpark Technologies
Nov 21, 201111 min read


China – India – United States Trilateral: A flawed Formulation; By Dr Subhash Kapila
Image Courtesy: AA The US Secretary of State last month articulated the formulation of a China-India-United States Trilateral advocating...

Chennai Centre for China Studies
Nov 16, 20117 min read
India-Pakistan: Moving Forward
This may please be read in continuation of the following articles of mine bearing on the same subject: (a).My paper of March 15, 2011,...

upSpark Technologies
Nov 11, 20117 min read
Chinese official media: China-India Cooperation is Essential, but India’s military build up in the
Coming to notice in the recent period is an authoritative Chinese language media comment, strongly supporting the maintenance of peace...

upSpark Technologies
Oct 27, 20115 min read
India Expands its Strategic Presence
Slowly, but steadily and unrelentingly, India has been expanding its strategic presence. 2. One dimension of this became evident during...

upSpark Technologies
Oct 10, 20113 min read
India-Pakistan-US
These are my answers in reply to E-mailed questions received from the Islamabad correspondent of a well-known US weekly What is India’s...

upSpark Technologies
Oct 8, 20113 min read
Kissinger’s Book ‘On China’ – A Review
It is not a surprise that the book captioned ‘On China’, authored by Dr Henry Kissinger, the US Secretary of State under President Nixon,...

upSpark Technologies
Oct 4, 20117 min read
Dr Kissinger’s Book on China – A Review, with focus on Sino – Indian Relations
“RELATIONS BETWEEN GREAT POWERS CANNOT BE SUSTAINED BY INERTIA, COMMERCE OR MERE SENTIMENTS”. -AARON FRIEDBURG, IN NEW REPUBLIC, AUGUST...

upSpark Technologies
Oct 4, 201131 min read
PLA’s Influence in Foreign Policy Making in China and Implications for India
Spelling out the duties allotted for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the official White Paper on “China’s National Defence in 2010”,...

upSpark Technologies
Sep 28, 201115 min read
China’s Near Sea Policy Provoking Regional Instability
Reacting to the US Department of Defence study paper on China’s Military and Security Developments, 2011, China’s Defense Ministry...

upSpark Technologies
Sep 21, 20117 min read
South China Sea: India Should Avoicd Rushing in Where Even US Exercises Caution
( To be read in continuation of my article of September 2,2011, titled “INS Airavat Incident: What does it Portend?” at...

upSpark Technologies
Sep 17, 20114 min read
US Military/ Security Paper on China – Messages for India and APR
The Pentagon annual report to the US Congress “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China, 2011”...

upSpark Technologies
Sep 14, 20118 min read
South China Sea, India and China’s Assertiveness
The recent news that the Chinese navy spooked the Indian warship INS Airavat sailing the South China Sea, should not have surprised...

upSpark Technologies
Sep 9, 20115 min read
INS Airavat Incident: What does it Portend?
The “Financial Times” of London reported on September 1,2011, that an unidentified Chinese warship had demanded that an Indian naval...

upSpark Technologies
Sep 2, 20117 min read
Afghanistan Imbroglio and the Chinese Windfall Dream
Introduction China’s print media has been typically agog with opinions on imperatives for China once the US troops withdrew from...

upSpark Technologies
Aug 20, 201113 min read
Indian Oil Payments to Iran- Now the Turkish Delight :
On 1st August, Reuters carried a report [ii] suggesting, “Iran is receiving long over due payments for its oil exports to India as...

upSpark Technologies
Aug 9, 201115 min read
Sino – Indian Relations: Book Review
Sudhir Kumar Singh, ‘Sino – Indian Relations: Challenges and Opportunities for 21st Century’, Published in Association with Society for...

upSpark Technologies
Aug 8, 20114 min read
India- Iran oil impasse
When the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided in December last year to disband the Asian Currency Union (ACU), which provided a smooth...

upSpark Technologies
Jul 28, 201110 min read
Can India find a Way to Bangladesh’s Heart?
In 1971, the most common words on the lips of a common Indian was “Joi Bangla”, victory to Bangladesh. The India-Bangladesh honeymoon...

upSpark Technologies
Jul 20, 20118 min read
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