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As China Rises, U.S. Exceptionalism Faces a Historic Test
In May 2003, about three months after the third US invasion of Iraq, US President George W. Bush stood on the aircraft carrier USS...
From Grotius to Huawei: The Evolution of Law-fare in Global Power Politics
The term law fare which is being used increasingly these days refers to the manipulation of the legal system and legal structure to use...
Beyond SAARC: China’s Emerging Bloc and the New Geopolitics of South Asia
In the aftermath of the 2025 India-Pakistan standoff arguably the most dangerous escalation between nuclear-armed neighbors in decades the silence from the South Asian...
China Renames 89 Places in Arunachal Pradesh
The most recent move by China to change the names of 27 addition places in Arunachal Pradesh is a calculated, aggressive and symbolic move...
80 Years On: The Global Significance of China’s Victory in the War Against Japanese Aggression
Several years ago, I was overjoyed to be officially invited, along with several prominent experts on China from around the world, to visit the...
The Malacca Dilemma: China’s Achilles’ Heel
Trump’s recent claims on the Panama Canal and the annexation of Greenland in the Arctic Circle have brought to the fore one of the...
BRICS Summit in Rio Raises New Questions About the Bloc’s Future
Popularly referred to as BRICS, the informal group of emerging-market economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), meeting in Rio de Janeiro, has...
Xi Jinping Skips BRICS: A Silent Rebuke of a Fractured Bloc?
For the first time since BRICS was established in 2009, Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the annual summit. His absence from the...
Substance and symbolism in the Dalai Lama’s succession
Days before turning 90, the Dalai Lama—the highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism and a unifying cultural symbol for the Tibetan diaspora worldwide—made a...
China-Central Asia Summit: A New Chapter of Shared Future and Strategic Convergence
The recent China-Central Asia Summit, attended by President Xi Jinping and the heads of state from the five Central Asian nations—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,...