Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, is the author of Asian Juggernaut, Water: Asia’s New Battleground, and Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis.
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Commentaries by Brahma Chellaney
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China’s India Land Grab
NEW DELHI – Stoking tensions with Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines over islands in the South and East China Seas has not prevented an inc…
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Asia’s Resource Scramble
NEW DELHI – Competition for strategic natural resources – including water, mineral ores, and fossil fuels – has always played a significant …
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Asia’s Dammed Water Hegemon
NEW DELHI – As if to highlight that Asia’s biggest challenge is managing the rise of an increasingly assertive China, the Chinese government…
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East Asia’s Turning Point
NEW DELHI – Political transitions in East Asia promise to mark a defining moment in the region’s jittery geopolitics. After the ascension in…
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America’s Unhinged “Pivot”
NEW DELHI – President Barack Obama’s first foreign trip since winning a second term highlights Asia’s new centrality to America’s economy an…
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The Lessons of the China-India War
NEW DELHI – This month marks the 50th anniversary of China’s military attack on India, the only foreign war that communist-ruled China has w…
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China’s Made-in-America Success Story
NEW DELHI – America’s strategy in Asia for more than a century has sought a stable balance of power to prevent the rise of any hegemon. Yet …
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India’s American Friends and Iranian Partners
NEW DELHI – The United States recently took the Iran-sanctions monkey off India’s back: it granted India an exemption from Iran-related fina…
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China’s Political Storm
NEW DELHI – As senior leaders are purged and retired provincial officials publicly call for Politburo members to be removed, it has become c…
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The Resistible Rise of Asia?
NEW DELHI – A favorite theme in international debate nowadays is whether Asia’s rise signifies the West’s decline. But the current focus on …
China’s India Land Grab
PUNDALIK Kamath: Hari Naidu: Um, you would make a fine apologist for the Chinese. BTW please tell us all readers when you became an expert on ethical and moral mindset of Chinese communism!
China’s India Land Grab
hari naidu: This guy should stick to his area of expertise - water and natural resources, etc. His commentary on Sino-Indian boarder crisis and its LAC sound more like a political statement of BJP (opposition …