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The Balakot Crisis Revisited: A Chinese Perspective
On February 26, 2019, India launched a brief but decisive airstrike on an alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) training camp in Balakot, a town in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The strike was in response to the major terror attacks in Pulwama of…
Arunachal Pradesh in Beijing’s Security Calculus: Watching the Eastern Sector of the Sino-Indian Border
Arunachal Pradesh is swiftly emerging as a point of heated discord between India and China. On December 29, 2021, China upped the ante and announced its decision to “standardize” the names of 15 places in Arunachal—which Chinese maps depict as…
بھارت میں ۲۰۲۱ کا جائزہ: اختلاف رائے کو دبانے کا ایک اور سال
۲۰۲۱ کے سیاسی منظرنامے پر بھارت ایک بار پھر وہیں کھڑا دکھائی دیتا ہے جہاں سے اس نے سفر کا آغآز کیا تھا۔ سال کا آغاز کسانوں کے احتجاج سے ہوا تھا اور اب ایسے وقت میں یہ انجام کو…
Deuba Seeks Better Relations with India
On January 10, 2022, Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was supposed to travel to Gujarat, India to participate in the Vibrant Gujarat Investor Summit at India’s invitation. However, both countries cancelled the visit at the last hour as COVID-19…
India 2021 Year In Review: Another Year of Silencing Dissent
India’s political scene in 2021 appears to have come full circle. The year began with the farmers’ protest commanding the center stage and is now drawing to a close with the government finally backtracking on the three farm laws that…
India’s Strategic Challenges and Prospects for CBMs in South Asia
Over the past four decades, Asia has been a hotbed of geopolitical challenges including—although by no means limited to—localized wars for influence, the use of terrorism as a state policy, shifting nuclear force postures, extremist militant groups, and the rise…