Simmering South China Sea Dispute On December 29, 2005, the Vietnamese foreign ministry accused Taiwan of being involved in the construction of a runway in the biggest of all of the islands, Itu Aba, in... Srikanth Kondapalli | January 18, 2006 | IDSA Comments
China ‘s Economy: Statistics versus Reality At the end of 2005, China became the world's sixth largest economy if one were to look at the size of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) alone. China 's GDP... Raviprasad Narayanan | January 18, 2006 | IDSA Comments
The Russia-Ukraine Gas Dispute The dispute over the price hike for Russian gas deliveries to Ukraine was settled on January 4, 2006 , when Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine 's state oil and... Nivedita Das Kundu | January 13, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Indian-led UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea may be Forced to Withdraw The Indian-led United Nations Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia (UNMEE), which is monitoring the five-year-old ceasefire between the two countries, is in danger of being withdrawn due to escalation in... Nivedita Ray | January 13, 2006 | IDSA Comments
China’s GDP & Asian strategic matrix The dramatic revision of China's GDP (Dec 20) by the National Bureau of Statistics in Beijing reveals that the dragon's economic vitality is far more robust than earlier estimated. C Uday Bhaskar | January 09, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Prospects for Indo-US cooperation in civilian nuclear energy When the Prime Minister of India and the President of the United States signed a joint Statement on July 18 last year, which included, inter alia, a move towards lifting... Arundhati Ghose | January 06, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Japan-China Rift and East Asian Security The feud between the two Asian giants is getting shriller. No sooner China had announced its 'peaceful development' policy through a White Paper than the Japanese foreign minister voiced his... G.V.C. Naidu | January 05, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Implementing the Indo-US. Nuclear Deal: A Pyrrhic Struggle Two rounds of negotiations have been held between Indian and US officials to negotiate implementing the Indo-US nuclear agreement, embedded in the Joint Statement issued by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh... P. R. Chari | January 05, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Civilian and Strategic Nuclear Facilities of India One of the major objectives of the United States in entering into the Indo-US nuclear co-operation agreement is to bring about an early freezing of the Indian weapon-usable nuclear materials... A. Gopalakrishnan | January 05, 2006 | IDSA Comments
Intel Inside: Securing IT Cities Bangalore's prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISc) was the venue of an attack by an unidentified gun-toting killer on December 28. Delhi based professor, Professor M.C. Puri - participating in... C Uday Bhaskar | January 03, 2006 | IDSA Comments
