Hong Kong: China’s Identity Question
The rise of the People’s Republic of China in the last two decades has enabled a massive economic and social churn with new megapolises,...
The First Kashmir War: 1947
Kashmir is in some ways to India what Taiwan is to China: a peripheral area with an erratic imperial history, with mostly Muslim rulers...
China Helps Pakistan to Develop Nuclear Weapons
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto made the first request to China to help Pakistan to develop nuclear weapon capabilities to match India’s budding programme when he...
China Transferred Ballistic Missile Technology to Pakistan
Pakistan’s security establishment was early to realize the strategic importance of ballistic missiles. In February 1989, a few months before India tested its Agni...
The Great Game in Central Asia
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Central Asia is the Jewel in the Crown that is now up for Grabs. Once part of Soviet Union the CIS States...
‘Karakoram’ – The China-Pakistan Friendship Highway
The grandest geostrategic scheme in Asia and perhaps the world is the ‘Karakoram Highway’ from China’s Muslim Far West through the Himalayas into Pakistan,...
“India & China” – So Similar yet so different
India and China are two vast economic systems, both containing a number of distinct economic sub-systems and disparate regions, as a result of the...
Cold War 2.0
Geopolitics over the past few centuries has been the sum total of patterns which keep repeating from time to time. These patterns reveal themselves...
Hybrid Warfare – The Killing of Mullah Akhtar Mansour
The nature of warfare is constantly evolving. The rise of ISIS with its sophisticated use of technology for propaganda has revolutionized the War on...
The Chinese Propaganda Machinery
In the 21st century wars will be fought less on ground and more in cyberspace. The battle for the control of the minds is...