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Geopolitical Maneuvering of Nepal’s Tourism Sector
On August 16, Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan University inaugurated Nepal’s second Confucius Institute—one of the many such planned institutes to be built across Nepal with Chinese government funding. Located in over 100 countries worldwide, Confucius Institutes serve to promote Chinese culture through…
Watching Pangong Tso, Thinking Doklam
After a brief interval, the roof of the world is once again the venue for tensions between Asia’s continental rivals. Eighteen months on from the withdrawal of forces from Pangong Tso, China has returned to the area and done so…
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…