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Full text of Inaugural address speech delivered by Inspector Genenral Rajan Bargotra at Internationa
C3s article no: 0150/2016 (The Inaugural Address was delivered by Inspector General Rajan Bargotra at the University of Madras on 18...

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Dec 1, 20167 min read


Meta-geopolitics of India and China By Vithiyapathy Purushothaman
C3S Report No: 0148/2016 (This paper is a text of a presentation made by the author at One Day National Seminar “Changing Asian...

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Nov 30, 201625 min read
South China Sea: United States Stiffens its Stances on China’s Conflict Escalation By Dr Subhash Kap
C3S Paper No. 0061/2016 China seems to be woefully oblivious to major lessons of United States belated entry in two Global wars of 20th...

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May 6, 20165 min read


China: PLA’s Restructured Central Military Commission (CMC) Takes Shape; By Brig. (Retd.) V. Mahalin
C3S Paper No. 0017/2016 Courtesy: CLAWS The restructuring of China’s Central Military Commission(CMC) has taken off with Xi Jinping, the...

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Jan 27, 20167 min read


Submarine Acquisitions in South East Asia: Vietnam Case Study; By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0203/2015 Saigon Giai Phong, May 7, 2015; http://www.talkvietnam.com/2015/05/pride-of-vietnam-peoples-navy/ Background In...

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Nov 19, 201511 min read


South China Sea: U.S. Commences Freedom of Navigation Patrol; By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0196/2015 Patrol-1 : QUESTION: As you know, the U.S. Navy sent a guided-missile destroyer within 12 nautical miles of...

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Nov 4, 201514 min read


Vietnam: Scene Setter for Visits by Xi Jinping & Obama; By Carlyle A. Thayer
C3S Paper No. 0194/2015 Q1. President and General Secretary Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit Vietnam next month. What is the main reason...

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Nov 4, 20155 min read


Rising Terrorism can Derail Bangladesh; By Bhaskar Roy
C3S Paper No. 0188/2015 While the World Bank raised the status of Bangladesh to a lower middle – income country and World Bank...

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Oct 17, 20155 min read


India’s Strategic Guardian of the Sky: IRNSS; By Vithiyapathy Purushothaman
Occasional Paper – 001/2015 Courtesy: KW Publishers Dedicated to Missile Man Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Sir, who sowed the seeds of dreams...

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Aug 25, 201514 min read


Making Sense of China’s New National Security Law; By D. S. Rajan
C3S Paper No. 0144/ 2015 Abstract It may not be wrong to say that China’s adoption of a New National Security Law on July 1, 2015 and a...

Chennai Centre for China Studies
Jul 20, 201525 min read


India’s Strategic Dimensions in Malacca Strait By Vithiyapathy Purushothaman
C3S Paper No. 0069/ 2015 “To be secure on the land, we must be supreme at sea” – Jawaharlal Nehru. Over several decades the sea has...

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Mar 16, 201516 min read


China: The Strategic Planning Of Defence Expenditure 2014
China’s declaration (March 5) raising its military budget for 2014 by 12.2% to almost $132 billion should not be surprising. In fact, it...

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Mar 10, 20148 min read


China’s Increased Defence Budget and its Implications for India
In marked contrast to India’s regrettable declining defence budget expenditures in face of rising threats from China and Pakistan, one is...

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Feb 10, 20145 min read
The Vanishing Tail Lights- Widening Gulf in Strategic Technologies between India and China
Finally the breast beating and wailing seem to be dying down in India marking the occasion of 50th anniversary of the Sino – Indian war...

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Nov 15, 201213 min read
NEW MILTARY LEADERSHIP IS READY FOR TAKEOVER
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will be holding its 18th Party Congress from November 8, 2012, this Congress will be selecting the...

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Oct 30, 20124 min read
TIME FOR SPECIAL TASK FORCE ON MARITIME SECURITY
( Based on observations made by me at the inaugural session of a seminar on Maritime Security and Challenges in the Indian Ocean Region...

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Aug 9, 20126 min read
HOTAN HIJACKING BID INDICATES LAX AIRPORT SECURITY IN CHINA
More details have become available of the unsuccessful attempt to hijack a plane flying from Hotan to Urumqi in Xinjiang by six Uighurs...

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Jul 2, 20122 min read
GROUND & SEA REALITIES
I found during my recent interactions in New Delhi that our strategic thinking continues to be largely enchained to ground-based...

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Jun 12, 20123 min read
OUR CHINA-CENTRIC MILITARY CAPABILITY
We don’t need Agni-V, the intermediate range ballistic missile that we successfully tested on April 19,2012, to give ourselves a...

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Apr 21, 20124 min read
China’s Development of its Military Aviation Sector
A heady cocktail of plagiarism, pilferage, piracy, subterfuge and deception but lots of lessons for India (Part – 1) China’s achievement...

Chennai Centre for China Studies
Apr 16, 201212 min read
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