Targeting the ‘Heart of Eurasia’: China’s Xinjiang and US’ Game Plan
The cat is out of the bag now, clearly! While it never was a secret, it is becoming increasingly evident that US’ recent posturing...
China’s Belt and Road pinpoints fundamental issues of our times
Based on remarks at the RSIS book launch of Alan Chong and Quang Minh Pham (eds), Critical Reflections on China’s Belt and Road Initiative,...
The Chinese Agitprop: Disinformation, Propaganda and Payrolls
“If you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it and you will even believe it yourself”. -Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propagandist
Successful dictatorships had...
The Himalayan landscape: A hot bed of tensions between India and China
Although India and China are jointly working on modalities to end tensions arising out of the four-month-long face-off between the Indian Army and the...
Backgrounder: How CCP and other parties function in the Chinese Party System
Every country in the world have their own distinguishing features. The type of a political party system a country chooses depend on its national...
Resisting China’s Expansionist Designs
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”.- Sun Tzu, the Art of war
Twenty Indian soldiers had lost their lives...
China-India Standoff & The Emerging World Order
The Recent showdown between People’s Liberation Army and Indian Army has escalated the situation in Galwan valley along the Line of Actual Control (LAC)...
Beijing’s strategy: Conquering the Heartland
Long time ago, Mackinder gave his heartland theory while keeping the geography of the world in his mind. Soon as the international politics changed...
China needs to approach EU strategically
Authors: Thet Thu Thu Aye & Paul Wang
Over the past 20 years, many people have held that the most important consequential bilateral relationship has...
Mongolia-U.S. relations: One of the most underrated partnerships
It has been exactly nine years since former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Mongolia. Mr. Biden’s visit to the only functioning democracy in...