The conflict over rare earths is not only a consequence of the monopoly amassed by China but is also reflective of the current flux in global power hierarchies.
With a friendly dispensation in Dhaka, it is an opportune moment for India to deliver on its promise to exchange the enclaves and surrender adverse possessions.
Would China’s strategic error in inviting Japanese hostility place more blocks to its rise as an unchallenged regional power or would it be able to override the Japanese threat in ample measure by altering its strategic game and finding a meeting ground with the United States?
China has all along been testing the limits of India’s tolerance and restraint and has once again given the Indian foreign ministry much home work for the next few months.
Kan’s statement about sending the SDF to the Korean peninsula to rescue Japanese citizens and people of Japanese origin in the event of an emergency has raised the spectre of a possible revival of Japanese militarism.
Bhutan 2010: Foreign Policy Developments
Security and development cooperation have become the twin pillars of the India-Bhutan relationship.
India’s Season of Summits
The world needs India as a balancer – in trade, as a market, as an alternative model, and as a world power.
Examining the Maoist Resurgence in Andhra
The Maoists are trying to cash in on major issues like Telangana to expand their mass base in Andhra from where hail their top leadership.
ISRO cannot afford failures
ISRO needs to conduct a thorough enquiry particularly because failure in a time-tested and launch proven “stage one technology” is undesirable.
Power, Interdependence and China’s Rare Earth Moment
The conflict over rare earths is not only a consequence of the monopoly amassed by China but is also reflective of the current flux in global power hierarchies.
Enclaves and Adverse Possessions: Time to deliver on the promise
With a friendly dispensation in Dhaka, it is an opportune moment for India to deliver on its promise to exchange the enclaves and surrender adverse possessions.
Japan’s Revised Defence Guidelines: Proactive Dynamism Pervades “Reluctant Realism”
Would China’s strategic error in inviting Japanese hostility place more blocks to its rise as an unchallenged regional power or would it be able to override the Japanese threat in ample measure by altering its strategic game and finding a meeting ground with the United States?
Sino-Indian Relations
China has all along been testing the limits of India’s tolerance and restraint and has once again given the Indian foreign ministry much home work for the next few months.
Naoto Kan’s Remarks strain Relations with South Korea
Kan’s statement about sending the SDF to the Korean peninsula to rescue Japanese citizens and people of Japanese origin in the event of an emergency has raised the spectre of a possible revival of Japanese militarism.
President Medvedev’s Visit to India: Fresh Directions for Indo-Russian Partnership in the 21st Century
India and Russia should look at a hi-tech partnership for the 21st century in new areas of the civilian economy.
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