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25 September 2018

India Is Still Losing to China in the Border Infrastructure War

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Source Link By Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan It has been a year since India and China ended the 73-day border crisis in Doklam. And...

US unlikely to succeed in weaning India away from military ties with Russia

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Source Link By Sandeep Unnithan Russian president Vladimir Putin flies into New Delhi in his customised IL-96 jet on October 4 to part...

The Sino-Russian Entente and India’s Choices

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Source Link By  Harsh V. Pant Last week saw Russia joining hands with China to conduct its largest military exercises since the Sovi...

SCARY! What Pakistan and China's nuclear weapons mean for India

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Source Link 'Once the military starts to draw up plans for using nuclear weapons, then nuclear weapons could be used earlier in a ...

The Nepalis Fighting America’s Wars

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Source Link By Peter Gill In his farewell address days before vacating the Oval Office in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warne...

The US-China Trade War is Steering the World into the Unknown

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Source Link BY ABIGAIL GRACE A new Cold War is a possibility — but not the most likely one.  “New U.S.-China Tariffs Raise Fea...

China’s Surreptitious Advance in Afghanistan

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Source Link By Shubhangi Pandey Given the dysfunctional state of affairs in war-torn Afghanistan for the past decades, and the cou...

Political Turmoil Throws Australia Off Balance

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Source Link With a razor-thin majority in parliament, new Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison will struggle to build a consensus ...

China’s Sea Control Is a Done Deal, ‘Short of War With the U.S.’

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Source Link By  Hannah Beech NEAR MISCHIEF REEF, South China Sea — As the United States Navy reconnaissance plane banked low near Mi...

China could be exposed in trade war as US allies choose compromise

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Source Link Wendy Wu Wendy Cutler, vice-president of the Asia Society Policy Institute and a former deputy US trade representative, ...

How China's GPS 'rival' Beidou is plotting to go global

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Source Link By Pratik Jakhar China has ambitions for its rapidly expanding Beidou satellite navigation system to serve the whole wor...

U.S. sanctions China for buying Russian fighter jets, missiles

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Source Link Lesley Wroughton , Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Chinese mi...

Time for Peace Talks With ISIS and Al Qaeda?

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Source Link BY MARTHA CRENSHAW After almost 17 years of focusing on the threat from terrorists, the U.S. defense community has, un...

Idlib Province and the Future of Instability in Syria

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Source Link DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF While some claim that an end to the conflict in Idlib marks the final stage of the Syrian war, there ...

Washington’s Endless Sanctions Are Finally Backfiring

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Source Link By DOUG BANDOW Washington is filled with talk of American exceptionalism. Policymakers insist that the U.S. has a unique...

Is the World Becoming a Jungle Again? Should Americans Care?

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Source Link By  Steven Erlanger BRUSSELS — President Trump seems determined to upend 70 years of established American foreign poli...

America and China are in a proper trade war

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Source Link ANOTHER week, a further ratcheting up of trade tensions between America and China. On September 17th President Donald Trum...

The Trade War Just Started

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Source Link by UPFINA With the US stock market near its all-time high and having a solid year, it’s easy to miss out on the global g...

White House rolls out new national cyber strategy

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Source Link   By Derek B. Johnson The Trump administration released its long-awaited cyber strategy to the public on Sept. 20, prom...

Regulating free speech on social media is dangerous and futile

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Source Link Niam Yaraghi We know that an overwhelming majority of technology entrepreneurs subscribe to a liberal ideology . Despite...

Data Manipulation: How Security Pros Can Respond to an Emerging Threat

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Source Link Industry leaders are scrambling to address the issue, which will take new thinking to overcome. This year, the US gove...

Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’

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Source Link By  Sheera Frenkel  and  Mike Isaac MENLO PARK, Calif. — Sandwiched between Building 20 and Building 21 in the heart of ...

Britain launches £250m cyber‑force to wage war on terrorists

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Source Link   Lucy Fisher   An offensive cyber-force to combat hostile states, terrorist groups and domestic gangs will be set up b...

Remembering A Professional Soldier

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Source Link   LUKE FLOWERS There is a lot of talk about the profession of arms and what a professional soldier should look like. ...

The Ivory Tower And Academic Ignorance Of What The Armed Forces Actually Do

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Source Link   ADRIAN LEWIS I have heard a number of my colleagues at the University of Kansas voice their dissatisfaction with the ...
24 September 2018

Here's how India can soar in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Source Link Manufacturing is fundamental to a country’s economic success. Industrialization has driven the growth of many developed ...

Pakistan continues to harbor Taliban, including al Qaeda-linked Haqqanis

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Source Link BY THOMAS JOSCELYN     Pakistan continues to allow the Taliban, including the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, to operat...

What’s Next for the Haqqani Network?

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Source Link Earlier this month, the Taliban announced that Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder, and leader of the feared Haqqani Network t...

My holiday with the Afghan mujahideen

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Source Link In the late 1970s, John England, from High Wycombe, was befriended by his neighbour Rahmatullah Safi, originally from Afgh...

Trade war of words breaks out at China conference as US congressmen call out Beijing

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Source link Wendy Wu Darrell Issa, from California, and Todd Rokita, of Indiana, called on China to stop “stealing and cheating” a...

Is China’s infrastructure boom past its peak?

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Source Link Life in a slower laneIs China’s infrastructure boom past its peak?  A sharp slowdown in investment this year points to...

China’s Global Times plays a peculiar role

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Source Link It is unfashionable in China to take the fiery tabloid seriously FEW countries have invested more man-hours in suppr...

A Reappraisal of China-Iran Ties After US JCPOA Withdrawal

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Source Link   By: Roie Yellinek On May 8, after weeks of negotiations with European leaders, US President Donald Trump withdrew the...

Xi Reasserts Control Over PRC Politics As Trade War Deepens

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Source Link By: Willy Wo-Lap Lam President Xi Jinping seems to have resumed his status as “leadership core” and primary decision-mak...

The Iranian Land Bridge in the Levant: The Return of Territory in Geopolitics

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Source Link By Fabrice Balanche With the re-establishment of Bashar al-Assad’s power in Syria, the strengthening of Hezbollah in Leb...