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CHINA: ENIGMATIC MILITARY MODERNIZATION PROGRAMME
“Building strong national defense and powerful armed forces that are commensurate with China’s international standing and meet the needs...

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May 9, 201326 min read
CHINA’S INCURSION AND THE UNFINISHED CHAPTER
That the Chinese finally withdrew from the Daulat Beg Oldi area at about 19:30 hrs on Sunday, 05 May 2013 has brought some relief to the...

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May 7, 20136 min read
AFTERSHOCKS OF CHINESE INCURSION IN LADAKH
Most people in India would welcome that a potential military conflict with China had been averted after China pulled back its troops who...

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May 7, 20137 min read
BEIJING UNDERLINES PLA’S ROLE IN WESTERN CHINA
According to the Xinhua news agency, the Xinjiang authorities have arrested 11 more suspected terrorists in connection with the...

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May 6, 20133 min read
Leh: Those Magnificent Kaoboys on Mule-Back down the Memory Lane
In the external intelligence division of the Intelligence Bureau, headed by B. N. Mallick, DIB, and subsequently post-1968 in the...

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May 2, 20134 min read
INDIA : LATEST CHINESE INTRUSION NEEDS DEEPER EXAMINATION
The April 15 Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) camp in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) in the Ladakh sector on the India-China undemarcated...

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May 2, 20139 min read
INDIA – CHINA STAND – OFF:SUN TZU IN ACTION
Merely by sending a platoon of their troops to camp 19 km (upgraded after 10 days from 10 km reported earlier) inside our territory on...

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Apr 29, 201310 min read
ANOTHER CLASH IN XINJIANG—TWO MORE DEAD
Two Uighurs working for the Ministry of Public Security in the Hotan area of the Xinjiang province of China are reported to have been...

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Apr 27, 20133 min read
CHINA SILENT ON INCURSION BUT REPORTS ESCALATION OF TENSIONS
The reports of at least 40 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops intruding and camping at Debsung Bulge, 30 km south of Daulat Beg Oldi...

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Apr 26, 20136 min read
XINJIANG-TIBET: CONTINUING WEAKNESSES IN CHINA’S PERIPHERAL SECURITY
Ten Uighurs, three Hans and two Mongols working for the Ministry of Public Security in Xinjiang and six Uighur separatists were killed on...

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Apr 26, 20133 min read
NEPAL – CHINA CLOSENESS:WHAT INDIA LOSES?
India and Nepal are not only linked due to the proximity of land, but it is the cultural affinity that binds the two nations. The common...

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Apr 24, 20135 min read
INDIA-CHINA BORDER DISPUTE
( To be read in continuation of my article of November 6,2012, titled “Chinese Checkers” carried by “Outlook” in its online edition at...

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Apr 24, 20134 min read
BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING: QUESTIONS SANS ANSWERS
Two Chechen brothers living in the US since 2002—Dzhokhar ( 19) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev ( 26), are suspected of bombing the Boston...

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Apr 20, 20133 min read
A CONSIDERED SHIFT IN CHINESE POSITION ON INDIA-CHINA BORDER?
While in Durban, South Africa, recently to attend the BRICS summit, new Chinese President Xi Jinping told (Mar.27) The Xinhua news agency...

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Apr 15, 20135 min read
KIM JONG-UN: CHINESE CONCERNS & CAUTION
As Kim Jong-Un of North Korea, who completes one year as First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea on April 11,2013,uses North...

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Apr 11, 20135 min read
CONTINUING FERMENT IN TIBETAN AREAS OF CHINA
The anti-Han and anti-Beijing ferment, marked by endless self-immolations of freedom-loving Tibetans—monks and others, young and old, men...

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Apr 9, 20133 min read
NEED FOR CAUTION ON SPACE-RELATED ACADEMIC EXCHANGES WITH CHINA
According to a report carried by “The Hindu” of April 4,2013, “ the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), a Government-run research...

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Apr 5, 20133 min read
CHINA’S MICHELLE OBAMA
“China’s new soft power”, “A Media Sensation” — these were some of the expressions used by the Chinese media in their reports on Peng...

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Apr 1, 20135 min read
China: New Chinese Leadership: Cautious & Politically Conservative
China’s new State leadership was formally installed in office at the 12th National People’s Congress (NPC), which concluded in Beijing...

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Mar 28, 20134 min read
HOW WILL CHINA’S 12TH NPC WORK OUT?
Predicting China is always a hazardous game. Yet, no one can say that China is not changing. There has been greater transparency of the...

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Mar 4, 20135 min read
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