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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Workable options short of war, as ‘Cold Start Minor’ suggests, would serve as deterrent to informed by the logic of leaving something to chance.

• Ali Ahmed
• December 13, 2010 |
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