What happened in Bali?
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 ...
Posts Tagged ‘South China Sea’
The Asian Balance: Assessing India’s East Asian engagement
Geoeconomics is the key to the seas East of Singapore This was published in yesterday’s Business Standard. The Asian Balance turns one today. It had promised to “devote itself to chronicling and interpreting the unfolding geopolitics of East Asia. It will be an unabashed advocate of Looking East far beyond the Straits of Malacca”. If ...
Pax Indica: East of Singapore
The waters east of Singapore hold the key to the lands west of the Indus Yesterday’s post was about the developments in East Asia. In today’s Pax Indica column, I argue that India must be part of the security equilibrium in that region. Excerpts: India’s strategic power projection will not be unwelcome in South East ...
The many myths that Yang shattered
In claiming the South China Sea, China destroys warm fuzzy feelings. Good. Some, like ‘peaceful rise’ are of China’s own creation. Others like ‘G-2′ are outputs of wishful thinking in the United States. Still others, like ASEAN being a coherent geo-political entity are indulgences of the Southeast Asian elite. These myths never stood up to ...