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.

• Pushpita Das |
• December 27, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

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?

• Preeti Nalwa |
• December 27, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

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.

• Ramesh Phadke |
• December 27, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

India and Russia should look at a hi-tech partnership for the 21st century in new areas of the civilian economy.

• Smita Purushottam |
• December 20, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

Russia is one country that India cannot afford to sideline, as it is the only trusted partner with whom India has mutual compatibility and a close political, military and economic partnership for decades.

• Pallavi Pal |
• December 20, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

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.

• Rajaram Panda |
• December 20, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

Japan’s adoption of a new defence Guidelines to secure its southern “outlaying islands” closer to China suggests major shift in Japan’s Cold War security policy.

• Shamshad A. Khan |
• December 20, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

Fractious domestic politics and lack of consensus at the international level are stumbling blocks before Maldives’ campaign on climate change.

• Anand Kumar |
• December 20, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

With Russia hosting three major world sporting events in the next eight years, it is hoped that there would be a massive infusion of capital to boost the country’s infrastructure and upgrade the transport and tourism sectors.

• Rajorshi Roy |
• December 15, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments

Primer Wen’s visit should be devoted to enhance mutual trust and confidence but this should not be done by brushing longstanding problems under the carpet.

• Arvind Gupta |
• December 13, 2010 |
• IDSA Comments