There is hope among some in India that Foreign Secretary Ms. Nirupama Rao’s June 24 visit to Islamabad would set the stage to move...

Reacting to the 15- member UN security council’s decision ( June,09) to impose stronger sanctions on Iran for its failure to comply with...

The so-called Panchen Lama nominated by the Chinese Government in 1995 after they had imprisoned the Panchen Lama chosen in accordance...

China, which is already meeting in the form of a soft loan from its Ex-Im Bank 85 per cent of the cost of construction ( US $ 360...

Concerned over reports of isolated attacks on the members of the Chinese community in the Osh region of southern Kyrgyzstan, the Chinese...

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China visited Myanmar on June 2 and 3,2010, to participate in celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of...

Mr.Naoto Kan, who takes over as the Prime Minister of Japan on June 8,2010, is an unknown quantity in international relations. As the...

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE When Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa visits New Delhi from June 8 to June 11 he will be stronger than ever...

Introductory Observations Contemporaneously, this year’s United States – China Strategic & Economic Dialogue (S & ED) has taken place...

An article captioned “ US Plot Against China”, written by Air Force Colonel Dai Xu, an influential Chinese Strategist, carried by the...

The increasingly adventuristic policies and actions of North Korea and China’s reluctance to tame North Korea to oblige President Barack...

In a manner, US President Barack Obama’s Af-Pak policy resembles Ernest Hemingway’s famous novel “A Moveable Feast”, based on the lives...

Shri P. Chidambaram, our Home Minister, is to visit Islamabad in the last week of June to attend the SAARC Home Ministers’ conference due...

The official China Daily (May 07, 2010) carried an article advocating a “Large Periphery” strategy to guard against developments in its...

“In the end, the current of Chinese expansion will meet the current of Hindu expansion over the submerged heads of the smaller and...

Sandwiched between two huge powers – India and China – Bangladesh has little option but to do a strategic tightrope walk in its external...

When he was President, Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan had sought to counter the Indo-US deal on civilian nuclear co-operation at two...

Worried over nearly 10,000 Buddhist monks and nuns from the Tibet Autonomous Region, Sichuan and other neighboiuring areas rushing to the...

Tibetan monks and others, who have survived the April 14,2010, earthquake in the Qinghai Province , the birthplace of His Holiness the...

After a protracted struggle soaked with bloody violence and more than 70000 dead the Srilankan Tamils whose cause was being fought by...