Dr Monika Chansoria
Xi Jinping Targets China’s Academia, Social Media: Orders Rigid Ideological Control
China seems to be witnessing a phase, that of wresting back absolute control of academia and social media, primarily through means of reasserting ideological control wherein liberalism, freethinking, and expression…
Cracks Emerge in China’s Great Wall
The writing on the Chinese Great Wall suggests that Xi Jinping will continue to remain at the helm of affairs even as the next scheduled term of the government comes…
BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile : Cementing Deterrence
With the Indian Army successfully test firing an advanced version of the 290 km-range supersonic cruise missile BrahMos in April 2014, India has displayed its continuing advancement towards strengthening deterrence…
China’s arms sales to Pakistan unsettling South Asian security
Underscoring its primacy as Pakistan’s primary benefactor in the realm of arms transfers, China’s recent upward swing in conventional arms sales to Islamabad has ruffled feathers as far as security…
India-Iran Defence Cooperation
As Asian Nations work towards integrating familiar areas of mutual interests, defence cooperation by and large, serves as a significant tool that complements diplomatic enterprise. Collaboration in the realm of…
Trends in China’s South Asia Policy
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to India and thereafter to Pakistan in December 2010 can be ascribed to as being a ‘withering’ one as far as India is concerned…
China’s brazen assertiveness
The irritants in the Sino-Indian relationship have raised its fangs yet again barely a month after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao concluded his visit to India. The People’s Republic of China…
Role of China as Pakistan’s nuclear and missile patron
As fighting intensifies in the Swat Valley and other tribal regions in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, the worsening security situation in the Af–Pak region coupled with the seeming…
