Pakistan’s opposition to an autonomous Afghanistan is the problem My op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Asia‘s symposium (Nov 15th, 2011): As the Obama administration pushes for an earlier drawdown of U.S. troops, Kabul must quickly take responsibility for maintaining internal stability and charting an independent foreign policy. We asked four analysts—Michael O’Hanlon, Marin Strmecki, ...
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At the East Asia Summit at Bali ANI’s Smita Prakash was in Bali last week as part of the official Indian media delegation covering the East Asia Summit. We discuss what happened there. Tweet ...
A milestone on the route to a reset Earlier today I posted my analysis of the Memogate controversy its implications on this blog. In this INI9 conversation, Sadanand Dhume, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and I discuss the events triggered off by an op-ed in the Financial Times. Tweet ...
A bold move to weaken the Pakistani military-jihadi complex backfires It was a risky enterprise, but the opportunity was unprecedented. Whether or not there was actually a risk of an overt military coup in the early days of May 2011, after the US military raid killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, it nevertheless opened up ...
China is unlikely to succeed in using moral power to upstage the United States Yan Xuetong is one of China’s finest minds on international relations. His recent volume, Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power is an excellent introduction to the schools of political philosophy in the Chinese civilisation. His op-ed in the New York Times ...
China’s external, economic and ethnic vulnerabilities are worsening Here’s today’s Asian Balance column in Business Standard. This may come as a surprise to many, but China today is at its most vulnerable since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. That’s not all; it is unlikely that the country will shake off its vulnerabilities – geopolitical, ...
How can the India-China relationship be used for mutual benefit Here’s a discussion with Ajit Ranade on how China’s surplus foreign exchange reserves and India’s long-term fund requirement can complement each other. Tweet ...
Should India offer to bail Europe out? A few days ago in his Mint column, Narayan Ramachandran, Takshashila geoeconomics fellow, argued that India must directly offer to bail out Europe. In an INI9 (9 Minute conversations) segment recorded yesterday, Narayan and I discuss this idea further. Tweet ...
Salil Tripathi talks about the differences between Chinese and Indian ways of doing business in Africa Recorded today in Singapore. Tweet ...