Rukmani Gupta

The South China Sea Disputes: Why Conflict is not Inevitable?

No party to the dispute, including China, has thus far challenged the principle of freedom of navigation for global trade through the South China Sea.

Published: October 17, 2011
IDSA Comments

The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor Harper Collins, New York, 2010, pp. xvii+302, US$ 27.99, ISBN 9780061708770

Published: September 2011
Strategic Analysis

Unrest in Xinjiang

It remains to be seen how far China is able to manage the challenges of providing space for religious and cultural freedom while enabling equitable economic development for all ethnic groups.

Published: August 09, 2011
IDSA Comments

White Paper on China’s National Defence 2010

“China’s National Defense in 2010” reviews the success of the PLA modernization and informationization process while subtly indicating a shift in assessments about the international system and China’s place in it.

Published: April 01, 2011
IDSA Comments

Soft Power: China’s Emerging Strategy in International Politics by Mingjiang Li (ed.)

Lexington Books, Plymouth, 2009, 275 pp., US$80, ISBN 978-0-7391-3377-4

Published: January 2011
Strategic Analysis

Erik Seedhouse, The New Space Race: China vs. the United States

In wake of the increasing attention received by China’s space programme, it has been posited by some that a new space race, akin to the space race between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, has already begun between China and the US. Erik Seedhouse in his book explores the various elements of the space programmes of both countries with a view to assess the
possibility of a space race between them.