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India has lost 2,000 square kilometres to its neighbour’s daily, cross-border stealth missions, but a bullet has yet to be fired. It’s time to be assertive, says Brahma Chellaney. 

As China continues to expand its sphere of influence, Brahma Chellaney looks at the steps the US can take to demonstrate its concerns.

Shinzo Abe’s courtship of Vladimir Putin has so far yielded little for Japan, writes Brahma Chellaney.

Brahma Chellaney looks to China to demonstrate that Cuba’s economic opening does not necessarily indicate a move towards democracy    

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Behind its strategic manipulations and sham alliance to tackle the likes of IS, a purported ally of the West’s official ideology forms the heart of the terrorist creed, writes Brahma Chellaney

It is the Western powers’ strategy of training, funding, and arming ‘moderate’ jihadists to fight against the ‘radicals’ that is now backfiring with deadly consequences, writes Brahma Chellaney

The US consistently ignores the lessons of its past blunders in conflicts on the world stage — and so repeats them, writes Brahma Chellaney.

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Pakistan’s president yesterday denounced terrorism after meeting British Prime Minister Tony Blair, but India today appeared to want more details before discussing an end to the crisis between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

For India, the worst possible fallout from US-led strikes on Afghanistan would be an Islamic fundamentalist takeover in Pakistan, placing nuclear weapons in radical hands.