AUTHOR'S BIO
Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney, a former member of India's National Security Council, is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi.
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China’s Cyber-Warriors
Brahma Chellaney Series: China Stands Up 
2010-01-28China 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 Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 4356
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Heroes Cross Swords in Sri Lanka
Brahma Chellaney Series: The Asian Century 2010-01-15Two celebrated heroes who, as president and army chief, helped end Sri Lanka’s long and brutal civil war last year are now crossing political swords. Whichever candidate wins Sri Lanka’s presidential election on January 26 will have to lead that small but strategically located island-nation in a fundamentally different direction.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 4020
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Asia’s Changing Power Dynamics
Brahma Chellaney Series: The Asian Century 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 Comments: 0 Recommended: 1 Read: 4859
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Berlin, Birthplace of Modern Asia
Brahma Chellaney Series: The World in Words 2009-11-02By 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 Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 5083
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Last Exit from Kabul?
Brahma Chellaney Series: The Asian Century 2009-09-24
The US is fighting the wrong war in Afghanistan, and its withdrawal would not lead not to a Taliban victory, as many American officials fear. The main consequence would be a vicious internal power struggle, which would formalize the present de facto partition of Afghanistan along ethnic lines – the direction in which Iraq, too, is headed.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 3359
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The Sino-Indian Water Divide
Brahma Chellaney Series: The Asian Century 2009-08-03With 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 Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 6850
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