Dr Rajasimman Sundaram

China’s President Xi Jinping visited Vietnam on 12-13 December, with whom China shares an important but complex relationship from a strategic perspective. While Laos and...

Experts worldwide now see the threat of a Third World War looming on the horizon. Empirical evidence in support of such claims is – 1)...

History of warfare is a testimony to the fact that the difference between the concept of “defense” and “offense” is ambiguous. War is about victory...

Republic of China (Taiwan) held its general elections on 13 January – its 8thdirect election to elect its 16thPresident, Vice-President &113 Legislatures. This election is...

Introduction The “core” concern for the ruling Chinese Communist Party –Zhōngguó gòngchǎndǎng (CCP) leadership is – Taiwan. Without a reunification of Taiwan with the mainland,...

On 04 September the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a notification stating that the G-20 Summit meet to be held in New Delhi (September 9-10) will...

The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) Having first been conceived in October 2021, and launched in May 2022, the United States (US) Trade Representative Katherine Tai...

The state of Sino-Indian bilateral relations according to India’s Foreign Minister and former Foreign Secretary Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is ‘not normal’. Even while the militaries...

A continental power adheres to a “closed-sea” concept, while a maritime power adheres to an “open-sea” concept. This difference also informs the naval strategy chosen...

In this game of power, a nation that is able to quickly arrest the spread of virus within its own territory as well as research,...

The idea of BRICS group of nations as originally hypothesized was based on the future potential of its collective economic performance that may exceed that...

Myth attempts to capture in terms conceivable to humans some of the indeterminate qualities of the divine unknown. Hence myth is something that is understood...

Introduction The United States strategic expectation that China will one day adapt to the enshrined values of the western world order –freedom, democracy, and human...

While the stated strategic objective of the Quadrilateral Strategic Dialogue [QUAD – Japan, the US, Australia and India] is to safeguard a free, open, rule...

The re-establishment of peace and tranquility along the Sino-Indian border based on the joint communiqué agreed between the foreign ministers of India and China on...

Your deployment was as wild geese in flight - nobody understood it, until the cub was caught in the tiger's den, and all were shocked....

Of all the strategic variables – intention, capability, objective, strategy, tactics, doctrines, domestic and foreign policy, leadership etc – it is geography that remains a...

To be attacked by the Enemy is not a bad Thing but a good thing! — Mao Zedong 26 May, 1939 Introduction: Is it Land?...

The recent face-off between Indian and Chinese troops along it’s yet to be demarcated land border in Ladakh was not a political outcome, but rooted...

“A catastrophe waiting to happen has now happened “said Dr. Francis Boyle[1], drafter of the US Bio-weapons Act [Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989] and...

Assassination of Qasem Soleimani [the head of Iran's elite Quds military force] under direct orders from the President of the United States is likely to...

Command Her! If you can’t command her, control her. If you can’t control her, dominate her. If you can’t dominate her, maintain presence and deny...

Disclosing Indian Army’s aborted plan to launch “Operation Kabaddi” in September 2001 with an objective to end cross border infiltration in India’s premier national daily...

United States (US) administration under President Trump is now engaged in non-kinetic war with China not limited to trade alone. A salvo of charges against...

As defense and strategıc analyst ın Indıa and China begın to present theır post-crisis analysıs on the recent near-sımultaneous wıthdrawal of troops along the trı-junctıon...

BRICS was carved out of a group formally initiated by Russia in 2002 – Russia-India-China (RIC) to address the challenges it faced after the break-up...

Having maintained an isolationist foreign policy prior to reluctantly accepting global leadership in the aftermath of World War II from United Kingdom, United States is...

By order of missing out on the finer details of the military parade held in Beijing to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Chinese military victory...

While past does not determine the future, neither is it inconsequential. Acknowledgment of a mistake in the past does not mean it has been learned...

A perceptional improvement in India’s global strategic profile by way of its growing economy[1] and defence capability, has found India a significant place in United...