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Abhijit Bhattacharyya
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The writer is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. The views expressed here are personal.
    It also follows two complaints by Qatar to the United Nations about Emirati military aircraft allegedly violating its international airspace amid the diplomatic crisis. (Photo: Representational | AFP)Opinion
    The price of aircraft & the price of power

    The non-manufacturing users and importers are always at the receiving end, except during the times when there is glut in...

    23 Feb 2018 2:09 AM IST

    Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Maldives: India's new front with China

    The situation in the Maldives today is a clear warning on the future scenario in India's northeastern frontier.

    14 Feb 2018 1:09 AM IST

    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held the first China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers Dialogue in Beijing with his Afghanistan and Pakistan counterparts Salahuddin Rabbani and Khawaja Muhammad Asif respectively. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Han-style diplomacy: What China says, and what it may really mean

    From security to expansion, France sought a guarantee from both current contracting and past confronting parties.

    8 Feb 2018 2:16 AM IST

    Apart from the Indian defence and security experts including retired military officials, a Chinese professor, Guo Xetang who is the director of centre for South Asia and Indian Ocean Studies will also be present on the first day of the seminar. (Representational image)Opinion
    The great Chinese (fire)wall: What India needs to do now

    Yes, prima facie, China does reserve the sovereign right to determine what it considers to be in its national interest.

    1 Feb 2018 6:18 AM IST

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    Behind China's push: Land, water, fuel issues

    Doklam and the Sino-Indian frontier are irritants and eyesores to Chinese leaders.

    23 Jan 2018 1:45 AM IST

    Indian Army. (Photo: PTI/Representational)Opinion
    Wars in India: Looking back at history

    The Mahabharat was a civil war and no Indian really celebrates it. The Ramayan, on other hand, was a war.

    15 Jan 2018 12:32 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo: File/AP)Opinion
    China threat: Trap, penetrate, destroy

    Things are vastly different today, thanks to the ongoing multilateral trade negotiations and bilateral proposals.

    11 Jan 2018 1:46 AM IST

    Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Watch out for Land of Morning Warning'

    Japan is universally known as the Land of the Rising Sun and the Korean peninsula as the Land of Morning Calm.

    5 Jan 2018 12:10 AM IST

    India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)Opinion
    What's behind Moscow's new advisory to New Delhi over Beijing's OBOR?

    The South China Sea is not Chinese, there are several claimant littoral maritime states.

    22 Dec 2017 1:06 AM IST

    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi with Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Wang's thoughts': Beijing has clearly, brazenly spelt out its overseas...

    It should be noted Wang showed a lot of warmth on his arrival and gave a warning on his departure.

    15 Dec 2017 3:28 AM IST

    India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)Opinion
    India vs China at sea: Why subs are critical

    India has 14 imported subs as compared to 54 indigenous and 12 imported subs of the PLA Navy.

    4 Dec 2017 12:25 AM IST

    Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and president of opposition National Conference (NC), Farooq Abdullah (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    J&K status: Farooq's line might be wrong, but look at other blunders

    It reveals the psyche of self-demeaning and self-defeating sections of the leadership, either suffering from an...

    23 Nov 2017 2:02 AM IST

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