IDSA Comments

India has to take a call on whether it would like to be a party to the CPEC, sit on the fence, or convey its concerns more emphatically in a bid to discourage China.

• Priyanka Singh
• May 07, 2015 |
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Shifting the centre of gravity of fighting from their traditional strongholds in the South to the northern parts of Afghanistan in this operation is indicative of the Taliban’s shift in focus to other regions that are also in the al Qaeda’s radar.

• V. Mahalingam
• May 06, 2015 |
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Confrontational politics is not new in Bangladesh. But it seems to have intensified in the last few months, especially after the unofficial main opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), decided to launch protests on the first anniversary of the 2014 parliamentary elections in order to force the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government to step down. The BNP considers the January 5, 2014 parliamentary elections as illegal and hence the government in power as illegitimate.

• Anand Kumar
• May 01, 2015 |
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Nepal should raise Ecological Task Force (ETF) units to assist in tasks related to ecological reconstruction.

• P. K. Gautam
• April 29, 2015 |
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Fears about the Beijing-Rawalpindi axis scripting Kabul politics and thereby causing the complete marginalisation of New Delhi in the region appear far-fetched given the political dynamics of Afghanistan.

• Vishal Chandra
• April 28, 2015 |
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India should continue to play the Afghan game but no longer by showering financial largesse but by deploying its skills of political manoeuvring.

• P. Stobdan
• April 28, 2015 |
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India and China could and should cooperate on environmental issues and specifically on clean urbanization because there is scope to develop a shared understanding of the problems and solutions.

• Avinash Godbole
• April 27, 2015 |
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Policymakers need to ask themselves ‘What Really Makes Offsets Tick?’ in order to develop an objective framework based on sound principles repeatedly noticed in the offset regulations of ‘The Smarter Lot’ of countries and in the process avoid committing the seven ‘original sins’ that a poorly-designed offset policy may entail.

• Sandeep Verma
• April 17, 2015 |
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Kautilya argues that when the treasury gets depleted, concerted efforts become necessary for its replenishment and even recommends extraordinary measures in emergency situations. But the guiding principle should be what the people consider as beneficial to themselves.

• P. K. Gautam
• April 17, 2015 |
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The new military doctrine reflects Russia’s views on the changing geo-political order. It perceives key military risks as emanating primarily from the ‘West’ and dwells on measures to counter them.

• Rajorshi Roy
• April 16, 2015 |
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