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Posts Tagged ‘swing power’

China’s moment of vulnerability

07.26.2011 · Posted in Foreign Affairs

China is at its most vulnerable moment since the Tiananmen Square upheaval of 1989. At a recent panel discussion at the College of Defence Management, Secunderabad, I argued that it is important to include the dimension of China’s vulnerabilities in the way we see the India-China dynamic. The following is a summary of my remarks: ...

The Asian Balance: US-Iran rapprochement

07.12.2011 · Posted in Foreign Affairs, Security

Can we help Washington and Tehran to get over it? This is the unedited version of yesterday’s column in Business Standard. As the war in Afghanistan enters what might be an endgame, it remains clear that there is broad convergence of geopolitical interests between two sets of players: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China on the ...