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Aug 23, 20224 min read
Middle Kingdom: Gunboat Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli Why the Yuan Wang 5’s Arrival in Sri Lanka is Consequential for South Asia Despite serious reservations...
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Aug 23, 20226 min read
Decoding China’s ‘new normal’ Taiwan policy
By Prof. Swaran Singh The tone of Beijing’s latest White Paper on Taiwan differs markedly from those issued before the Xi Jinping era...
SIS Blog
Aug 15, 20224 min read
India of Sita, Draupadi, Kannagi
By Prof. Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit We need to rediscover and reinvent our civilisational journey The journey of India at 75 to India at...
SIS Blog
Aug 11, 20224 min read
Reeling Under Unpredictability: India’s Changing Strategic Environment
By Srijan Sharma The world order has witnessed three strategic shocks- first is the COVID-19 pandemic; second US unceremonious exit from...
SIS Blog
Aug 11, 20224 min read
Pelosi’s visit could derail US–China compromise over Taiwan
By Prof. Swaran Singh and Prof. Yves Tiberghien, UBC There is plenty of blame to go around for the apparent fourth Taiwan Straits crisis...
SIS Blog
Aug 11, 20223 min read
Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan: Need to Stand Up to China and Call Its Bluff
By Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli Nancy Pelosi’s defiant, but unannounced, visit comes in the wake of China’s uncalled for, politically...
SIS Blog
Aug 11, 20225 min read
Part – IV: Use of Nuclear Weapons in War (Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day): A Challenge for International Law
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai The first week of August 2022 brought vivid memories of the lethal capacity of the nuclear bombs that were...
SIS Blog
Aug 6, 20225 min read
Redeeming ASEAN ‘centrality’ in Indo-Pacific region
By Prof. Swaran Singh ASEAN has too many serious issues at hand to address instead of being distracted by great-power politics Media...
SIS Blog
Aug 6, 20225 min read
Part - III: Abused Ammunition as a Weapon of War in the DR Congo: A Challenge for International Law
By Prof. Bharat H. Desai The troubling reality is that the abundance of our natural resources – gold, coltan, cobalt and other strategic...
SIS Blog
Aug 1, 20225 min read
Biden-Xi talks: Semantics sideline the substantive
By Prof. Swaran Singh Much more should be expected of seasoned leaders like Joe Biden and Xi Jinping than they have shown during their...
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