M Waqas Jan

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Research Associate and Program Coordinator for the China Study & Information Centre (CS & IC) at the Strategic Vision Institute, a non-partisan think tank based out of Islamabad. He can be reached at waqas[at]thesvi.org

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Friday’s closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on Jammu and Kashmir marked the first time in over 50 years since the issue was discussed at...

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Last week’s announcement by the White House regarding its decision to suspend Turkey from the F-35 Fighter Jet program marks the latest development in the steady...

Gambling with the Nuclear Button in South Asia

Over the last decade, India’s rapid expansion of its conventional and nuclear arms capabilities have presented a worrying dilemma with regard to the South Asian region’s...

Thinking the Unthinkable: Another Redacted Version of the US Nuclear Doctrine

Over the last two weeks, much has been written about the release of the US’s latest Nuclear Warfare Doctrine that was published on the US Joint...

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The Encroaching Impact of Arms Trade on South Asia’s Geopolitics

In his famous farewell address to the American Public in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower had both defined and warned against the encroaching influence of what was...

A More Nakedly Aggressive United States

Of all the instability and unrest the US has been accused of fomenting over the last three years, no other example comes close to the lengths...

The Self-Aggrandizing Tenets of the Modi Doctrine

As Mr. Modi confidently pushes forth his re-election bid in the ongoing Indian elections, numerous analysts have offered various summations of his outgoing government’s performance. These include...

The ‘High-Risk Low-Gain’ Politics of the Kashmir Issue

Over the last few days, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan seems to have come under tremendous fire for his recent statements regarding a possible future settlement with...

Chinese Flags over Europe?

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