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Why India Opposing BRI? India-Japan led Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) is Mumbai
0 comments | by Saikat Bhattacharyya on 11, April 2018
India has no economic and geopolitical leverage to counter BRI but India can determine the course of BRI by getting engaged with it while India-Japan led Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) is Mumbai centric, BRI is largely Kolkata centric. India must allow more Chinese investments across the Eastern part of India.
Read Full ArticleAnti-Bangladesh and anti-Muslim mindset may increase
0 comments | by AKM Zakaria on 09, April 2018
Imtiaz Ahmed, professor of international relations, Dhaka UniversityDhaka University’s professor of international relations, Imtiaz Ahmed, talks to Prothom Alo’s AKM Zakaria about the geo-politics of this region, Indo-China relations, Bangladesh’s stance in the competition between these two countries, and the recent controversial statement of the I
Read Full ArticleTrump’s Pakistan Crisis is an Opportunity for Putin
0 comments | by Shahid Raza on 31, March 2018
So the first thing the Republican US President Donald Trump did to start his new year was to open a cannon of insults against Pakistan, an old American ally from the Cold War days. The tirade of insults
Read Full ArticleIndia’s Regional Integration Plans all Hinge on Bangladesh
0 comments | by Andrew Korybko on 30, March 2018
India doesn’t have a single regional integration plan that excludes Bangladesh, thus making Dhaka the most prized of New Delhi’s neighborhood partners. This analysis will highlight the institutional integration dependency that India has on Bangladesh, while the second part will raise awareness about how Bangladesh can leverage this state of affairs to its benefit a
Read Full ArticleChina’s Latest Move in the Graveyard of Empires
0 comments | by By Pepe Escobar on 28, March 2018
The latest plot twist in the endless historical saga of Afghanistan as a graveyard of empires has thrown up an intriguing new chapter. For the past two months, Beijing and Kabul have been discussing the possibility of setting up a military base alongside Afghanistan’s border with China.
Read Full ArticleBangladesh between Sino-Indian Friction in South Asia
0 comments | by Ahmed Rajeev on 26, March 2018
Bangladesh's trade and commerce ministry should focus on the trade deficit. Specifically, it must change its submissive attitudes towards India and China. Right
Read Full ArticleWindow to the West WHEN in 1960 Mao Zedong sent off General Gengbiao
0 comments | by Munir Akram on 08, March 2018
The writer is a former Pakistan ambassador to the UN. WHEN in 1960 Mao Zedong sent off General Gengbiao, his second ambassador to Pakistan, he reportedly advised him: “Look after Pakistan; it is China’s window to the West”. Mao’s depiction may have been as much metaphorical as geographical. During the 1960s, Pakistan was China’s diplomatic
Read Full ArticleContinuity of Agenda: US Encirclement of China Continues Under Trump
0 comments | by Ulson Gunnar on 07, March 2018
The United States has pursued a decades-long policy of encircling, containing and if possible, undermining China as part of a larger strategy of achieving and maintaining what US policy papers call “primacy” over Asia. US policy has led to deeply-rooted networks operating within China’s borders and along China’s geopolitical peripheries to divide and des
Read Full ArticleTrump Afghan Policy Aimed at Taliban or at China? by F William Engdahl
0 comments | by F William Engdahl on 03, March 2018
In recent months the US President has reversed yet another campaign pledge to pull out of Afghanistan, America’s longest war, and instead has begun to deploy an added 3,000 troops there. At the same time he has lashed out at the government of Pakistan accusing it of aiding the Afghan Taliban and pledging to cut all US military aid to that country as reprisal. A deeper view into the si
Read Full ArticleLimits of American power The Trump administration has got into the dangerous habit
0 comments | by Javid Husain on 24, February 2018
The Trump administration has got into the dangerous habit of issuing unilateral demands and ultimatums to governments around the world that do not see eye to eye with it on different issues. Unilateral demands on Pakistan relating to the Afghanistan situation are an example of this tendency. During the Cold War, the US, because of the global competition waged by the Soviet Union and its need fo
Read Full ArticleResentments Fester as Bangladesh Bears the Brunt of Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis
by Laignee Barron on 23rd , April 2018
Must Read Comment Congratulations, my dear old friend Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
by Sumanta Banerjee on 21st , April 2018
Rising Crime Against Dalits And The Dilution Of The SC/ ST Act
by Sheshu Babu on 20th , April 2018
Being The Other: The Muslim in India: A Book of Parallel Story
by Mohammad Yousuf Najar on 19th , April 2018
Unnao Rape Case Highlights Important Issues Dr Vivek Kumar Srivastava
by Dr Vivek Kumar Srivastava on 18th , April 2018
Saudi Arabia And Israel: The New ‘Friends With Benefits’
by Priyale Chandra on 17th , April 2018
India’s Dalit Spring, The OBCs And The Hindutva Game Plan – Kancha Ilaiah
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd on 16th , April 2018
Kashmir: from Nehru to Modi, What’s Changed? Despite his public statements
by Iqbal Jassat on 13th , April 2018
Caste Question In India: As I understand It Nivedita Dwivedi
by Nivedita Dwivedi on 12th , April 2018
Why India Opposing BRI? India-Japan led Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) is Mumbai
by Saikat Bhattacharyya on 11th , April 2018