By M K Bhadrakumar Consultations by Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Moscow at the weekend were expected to prepare the ground for the visit by President Hu Jintao to Russia next month. In the event, however, they assumed a character of immense significance to international security. Sustained Russian-Chinese efforts to “coordinate” their stance on […]
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The China pivot and the US ‘siege’ strategy
17/05/2012By David Isenberg On January 5, the Pentagon released a strategic review. The document itself was not particularly novel. The Pentagon regularly does strategy reviews, trying, like a modern version of the Oracle of Delphi, to divine the future and adjust its forces accordingly. Since the end of the Cold War the Pentagon has had […]
US: China’s aggression written in the stars
17/05/2012By Radhakrishna Rao Media reports reveal that there are growing concerns in the United States over rapidly expanding Chinese space capabilities that could help the communist giant derive diplomatic and defense-related advantages, which in turn could hurt the long-term national security and geostrategic interests of the US. A well-documented national security report on revising US […]
Putin returns to the Wild East
17/05/2012By Yong Kwon Vladimir Putin was ceremoniously reinstated as Russia’s head of state last week. The country is relatively more stable and prosperous than when he first assumed power in 2000. Nonetheless, Putin’s six-year term will still be wrought with serious challenges to the welfare of the nation and tenuous economic growth. In his short […]
China and its territorial disputes: One approach does not fit all
11/05/2012By Andy Yee, Hong Kong International relations in Asia last year were characterised by conspicuous territorial disputes in the South China Sea — between China, the US and ASEAN — and the East China Sea — between China and Japan. No doubt, China’s growing territorial assertiveness is an important factor in these disputes, which are geographically close […]
China Promises to Rescue the EU… Again?
8/04/2012Written by Nasos Mihalakas, Contributor Amid all that is happening in the Arab world (escalating violence in Syria, and nuclear brinkmanship by Iran) as well as the never-ending epic saga of the Greek sovereign debt crisis, comes the delayed EU-China summit in Beijing. Held on Valentine’s Day, it was full of promises for mutual love, […]
Chinese Influence in Nepal Grows
5/04/2012A STRANGE cast of Western tourists, Nepalese pilgrims, Tibetan refugees and Chinese spies is forever circling the great stupa at Boudha in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. As people walk clockwise around the building, as prescribed by Buddhist tradition, Nepalese plain-clothes security men mingle among them. Ever since protests in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, were violently suppressed […]
The Dynamic Change in China and Russia’s Military Diplomacy
29/03/2012Written by Ralph Winnie, Contributing Editor Photo: EPA/Anatoly Maltsev The Kremlin recently revealed that Moscow has pledged $640 billion in an effort to bring 80 percent of the Russian military establishment up to modern standards by 2020. Consequently, Vladimir Popovkin, Deputy Defense Minister in charge of arms procurement, recently suggested to the media that the […]
China’s Shale Gas Strategy
25/03/2012Written by Ralph Winnie, Contributing Editor Over the past twenty years, China has experienced dramatic economic growth, transforming itself from a basically agrarian society into the world’s second largest economy behind only the United States. Since the initiation of economic and political reforms in 1978, China has produced an average annual growth rate of 10 […]
Central Asia: Great Games or Graveyard?
22/03/2012Written by Michael Kofman, Senior Contributor On February 22nd, in what the Financial Times characterized as “Central Asia’s gradual shift from Moscow and towards Beijing,” China drastically expanded its investment in Kazakhstan. Not only in oil, but in a broad range of areas including water, uranium, and transit infrastructure worth billions of dollars. The […]