Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, is the author of Asian Juggernaut and the newly released Water: Asia’s New Battleground.
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2012-01-31
| With the stage set for secret US-Taliban talks in Qatar, President Barack Obama’s strategy for a phased exit from war-ravaged Afghanistan is now being couched in terms that hide more than they reveal. In seeking a Faustian bargain with the Taliban, Obama risks repeating US policy mistakes that now haunt regional and international security.... read |
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2012-01-10
| The launch of trilateral strategic consultations among the US, India, and Japan, and their decision to hold joint naval exercises this year, signals efforts to form an entente among the Asia-Pacific region’s three leading democracies. But the aim is not to establish a formal military alliance, or to "contain China."... read |
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2011-12-28
| At a time when China’s economic, diplomatic, and military rise casts a shadow of power disequilibrium over Asia, the just-concluded visit of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to India cemented a fast-growing relationship between two natural allies. Now the task for Japan and India is to add concrete strategic content to their ties.... read |
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2011-12-02
| Since 1949, China has completed, on average, at least one large dam per day, and today boasts more dams than the rest of the world combined. But China's over-damming of rivers has already wreaked havoc on natural ecosystems, and the social costs – both at home and abroad – have been even higher.... read |
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2011-11-17
| Defenders of current US policy in the Islamic world argue that it is sometimes necessary to choose the lesser of two evils, which is why, when it came to the Persian Gulf oil monarchies, America chose the status quo over the Arab Spring. But, as its history in Afghanistan shows, the US risks fomenting new and even greater dangers.... read |
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2011-10-14
| International discussion about China’s rise has focused on its increasing trade muscle, growing maritime ambitions, and expanding capacity to project military power. One critical issue, however, usually escapes attention: China’s rise as a riparian hegemon with no modern historical parallel.... read |
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2011-08-08
| An increasing number of Uighurs, Tibetans, and Mongolians in China are choosing to stand up to the Han Chinese authorities' decades-old policy of ethnic and economic colonization. Unless China does not reverse course, its internal-security problems will continue to mount.... read |
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2011-06-16
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| China’s announcement that its first aircraft carrier will soon be launched has refocused attention on its naval ambitions. So, too, has Pakistan's disclosure that it recently asked China to build a naval base at its strategically positioned Gwadar port, on the Arabian Sea – yet another revelation underscoring China’s preference for strategic subterfuge.... read |
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2011-05-02
| The killing of Osama bin Laden by US special forces in a helicopter assault on a sprawling luxury mansion near Islamabad recalls the capture of other Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistani cities. Once again, we see that the real terrorist sanctuaries are located not along Pakistan’s borders with Afghanistan and India, but in the Pakistani heartland.... read |
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The Geopolitical Message from Libya
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Barack Obama apparently has concluded that Arab monarchs will survive, whereas Arab presidents are more likely to fall, and that it is acceptable for the US to continue to coddle tyrannical kings. No one has a greater interest in such geopolitical "realism" than the world’s most powerful autocracy, China.... read
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2010-01-28
| China deploys tens of thousands of “cyber police” to block Web sites, patrol cyber-cafes, monitor the use of cellular telephones, and track down Internet activists. But China's real threat to cyberspace comes comes from the way in which it uses its know-how to engage in cyber intrusion across international frontiers.... read |
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2011-03-14
| The troubles of nuclear-power plants in northeast Japan have dealt a severe blow to the global nuclear industry, which had been trumpeting a nuclear-power renaissance. Judging by the fallout from previous nuclear disasters, however, the industry's advocates will be back.... read |
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2009-08-03
| With its rapidly growing power, China seems determined to choke off Asian competitors, reflected in its hardening stance toward India. Nowhere is this clearer than in its use of the region's water supply, much of which originates on the Tibetan plateau, as a political weapon.... read |
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2010-06-28
| Success breeds confidence, and rapid success produces arrogance. That, in a nutshell, is the problem that both Asia and the West face in China, whose unimpeded economic rise owes everything to its established status as a military power.... read |
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2011-10-14
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| International discussion about China’s rise has focused on its increasing trade muscle, growing maritime ambitions, and expanding capacity to project military power. One critical issue, however, usually escapes attention: China’s rise as a riparian hegemon with no modern historical parallel.... read |
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2010-01-04
| Never before have China, Japan, and India all been strong at the same time. But there can be no denying that these three leading Asian powers and the US have different playbooks: America wants a uni-polar world but a multi-polar Asia; China seeks a multi-polar world but a uni-polar Asia; and Japan and India desire a multi-polar Asia and a multi-polar world.... read |
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2009-11-02
| By marking the Cold War’s end and the looming collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago transformed global geopolitics. But no continent benefited more than Asia, as the collapse of communism produced a shift from the primacy of military power to economic power in shaping the international order.... read |
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2011-06-16
| China’s announcement that its first aircraft carrier will soon be launched has refocused attention on its naval ambitions. So, too, has Pakistan's disclosure that it recently asked China to build a naval base at its strategically positioned Gwadar port, on the Arabian Sea – yet another revelation underscoring China’s preference for strategic subterfuge.... read |
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2011-04-11
| Barack Obama apparently has concluded that Arab monarchs will survive, whereas Arab presidents are more likely to fall, and that it is acceptable for the US to continue to coddle tyrannical kings. No one has a greater interest in such geopolitical "realism" than the world’s most powerful autocracy, China.... read |
