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...
The Bangladesh Liberation War: 1971
It was not only geographical distance that divided West and East Pakistan. It was like a colonial empire, with the West Pakistani elite exploiting...
The Third Kashmir War: Kargil-1999
Although free of war for the 28 years since the Bangladesh Independence War in 1971, Pakistan remained a deformed country, single-mindedly obsessed with only...
The Second Kashmir War: 1965
The 1965 war started as a series of guerrilla infiltration into the Indian sector of Kashmir by Pakistani militia in an attempt to stir up a...
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...
Why Pakistan is so important to China?
Within months of the Dalai Lama’s fight to India following a failed uprising in Tibet, Chinese ambassador Pan Tzu-li wrote to Prime Minister Nehru...
How important is Gwadar port for China?
China’s hydrocarbon use has more than doubled in the past two decades and will double again in the next decade.
In 2000, China’s total energy...
Is China-Pakistan friendship a threat to India?
Today, China’s primary interest in its relationship with Pakistan is, as Stephen Cohen puts it, to pursue a “classic balance of power strategy,” using...
Uighur separatism is just as likely to drive China and Pakistan...
China’s western Xinjiang region borders northwest Pakistan and is home to nearly nine million Uighurs, a Muslim people of Turkic origin, among whom separatist...
China strengthens authoritarian structures in Cambodia
Historically, China’s regional interests in the context of the containment of Vietnam has had devastating effects on Cambodia and prolonged the Cambodian civil war....
Tibet’s water and regional security
Tibet is strategically important to China due to its centrality in Asia’s hydrological cycle. Tibet is known as the ‘Third Pole,’ for having the...
Tibet – Self-Immolations and Aftermath
With the most recent self-immolation on March 24, 2013, there have been 111 Tibetans confirmed to have self-immolated in different Tibetan areas since February...