Category Archives: Taiwan

Pungyye-ri blast — Time India resumed thermonuclear testing (re-titled)

Posted on September 8, 2017 by

North Korea did it. Exploded at the Punggye mountain site a genuinely full-bore thermonuclear weapon. The Richter scale registering 6.3 level seismic shock wave followed by a 4.1 level quake and huge rockslides, translatable to around 250 KT yield, though … Continue reading →

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Will Doval hold the line, disregarding the ‘Beijing Syndrome’?

Posted on July 26, 2017 by

NSA Ajit Doval leaves for Beijing to confer with his opposite number on the Special Representative-level  talks to resolve the border dispute, the State Counselor Yang Jiechi. But Doval is being welcomed by a barrage, to add to the verbal … Continue reading →

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Coping with China’s Rise

Posted on January 22, 2017 by

At the dawn of the new millennium, there were many influential Indian voices that backed the Congress Party’s resident intellectual, Jairam Ramesh’s notion of “Chindia”. Suffused with hopes for regional and international peace and a peaceful economically interdependent world order, … Continue reading →

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