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STOP DRAGGING BANGLADESH BACK TO 1971
Bangladesh is a country poised to take off economically. True, there are serious issues of corruption, governance, shortage of power and...

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Mar 20, 20136 min read
WILL PAKISTAN COLLAPSE ?
The fact that a civilian government in Pakistan is completing a full five-year tenure is a hopeful sign. There is another fact, which is...

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Mar 6, 20135 min read
SHAHBAG SQUARE: BANGLA’S DNA
The huge protest gatherings at Shahbag Square in Dhaka demanding capital punishment for the 1971 war criminals, and the growing call for...

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Feb 23, 20136 min read
China: Post- Party Congress Scenario: Policy Indicators in Two Speeches of Xi Jinping
With an eye on discerning any policy indications, the rest of the world is paying attention to the two speeches made by the Chinese...

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Feb 17, 20137 min read
CHINA MUST REALIZE TIBET AND TIBETANS ARE A REALITY
The Chinese authorities, that is the Communist Party of China (CPC), must realistically admit that its minorities especially the...

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Feb 15, 20136 min read
Dealing With a Defiant North Korea
North Korea’s third nuclear test was not secretive. Its first two tests were with plutonium. One does not know whether it used plutonium...

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Feb 14, 20133 min read
Pakistan Inducts China into Baluchistan to Counter India
Despite its continuing concerns over the freedom struggle of the Balochs which shows no signs of letting up, China, which originally...

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Feb 2, 20133 min read
INDIA: HOW SOFT ON PAKISTAN FOR A MAN
The gruesome killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops and beheading one of them along the line of control (LOC) on January 8...

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Jan 17, 20136 min read
BANGLADESH: EXTERNAL EFFORTS TO SCUTTLE GENOCIDE TRIALS
Since its bloody and violent birth in 1971, Bangladesh’s history has been pronounced for political assassinations and military coups than...

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Jan 10, 20138 min read
PAKISTAN’S NEW MILITARY DOCTRINE
Media reports emanating from Pakistan’s civilian Government as well as from the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the Army speak of an...

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Jan 7, 20132 min read
SECTARIAN VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM IN PAKISTAN
With the overthrow of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, a new situation has emerged in Pakistan. Many contradictions and myths within...

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Jan 2, 201313 min read
HILLARY CLINTON & JOHN KERRY—STYLE & SUBSTANCE
Both Mrs.Hillary Clinton, the outgoing US Secretary of State, and Mr.John Kerry, her successor-designate already officially nominated by...

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Dec 31, 20125 min read
The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) Conference, Taipei (24-28 August 2
Sponsored by the Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S) and part funded by the organizers in Taipei, two C3S members, Mr. D.S.Rajan and...

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Dec 13, 20123 min read
“US Can’t Squeeze China out of Myanmar”
” US Can’t Squeeze China Out of Myanmar” was the message that China sought to convey to President Barack Obama as he completed his...

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Nov 26, 20127 min read
GLIMPSES INTO CHINA’S FOREIGN POLICY
The 18th congress of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) mapped out the skeletal structure of China’s foreign policy. Outgoing CCP General...

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Nov 22, 20128 min read
Time to Avoid Romanticisation of Aung San Suu Kyi
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is presently on a visit to India where she grew up and studied as a teen-ager. Her widowed mother was posted as the...

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Nov 15, 20124 min read
OBAMA’S TRICKY VISIT TO MYANMAR
In his first foreign visit after being re-elected, President Barack Obama will be in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand from November 17 to...

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Nov 14, 20124 min read
MESSAGE OF DEFIANCE FROM TIBET TO CPC CONGRESS
“We shall not give up our struggle for preserving our ethnic, religious and cultural identity. We shall not give up our reverence for His...

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Nov 12, 20125 min read
MY TAKE ON OBAMA’S VICTORY
To be fair to President Barack Obama, one cannot deny that he inherited a bad economy from his predecessor Mr.George Bush. It became...

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Nov 8, 20124 min read
BANGLA BEGUM’S INDIA VISIT: REAL OR EPHIMERAL?
Can ideology and political agenda change overnight? At least, that is the message Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson and...

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Nov 6, 20124 min read
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