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31 March 2019

Pakistan Doesn’t Want Modi to Win

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BY FAHD HUMAYUN Source Link It was not particularly surprising when India boycotted the Pakistan Day celebrations at the Pakistani ...

Digital India: Technology to transform a connected nationMarch 2019 | Report

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By Noshir Kaka, Anu Madgavkar, Alok Kshirsagar, Rajat Gupta, James Manyika, Kushe Bahl, and Shishir Gupta Source Link Indian consume...

Netanyahu way or Helsinki?

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Vappala Balachandran Source Link When ISI Director-General Hamid Gul met RAW chief AK Verma in 1988, the first such meeting between ...

The India-China Rivalry Heats Up in South Asia

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Source Link As the India-China rivalry for influence in Asia grows, India has begun to take a bolder stance. In 2016, at Bhutan's ...

Why the Taliban should be required to renounce al Qaeda in any deal with US

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BY THOMAS JOSCELYN & BILL ROGGIO   Source Link Last week, Afghanistan’s national security adviser, Hamdullah Mohib, launched i...

In U.S. pursuit of peace talks, perilous rift opens with Afghan leader

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Phil Stewart, Jonathan Landay, Hamid Shalizi Source Link FILE PHOTO: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a news conference i...

CO19049 | Why Balancing Towards China is not Effective: Understanding BRI’s Strategic Role

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T.V. Paul Source Link RSIS Commentary is a platform to provide timely and, where appropriate, policy-relevant commentary and analysi...

China's Twenty-First Century Difficulties

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by Leland Lazarus John Brunetti Source Link Tensions continue to simmer between China and its neighbors over the South China Sea. ...

Amid Thaw, Japan Is Seeing a Boom in Chinese Tourists

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By Daniel Hurst Source Link Japan is experiencing a boom in tourists from China. Official figures show the number of visitor arriva...

The Man Who Took China to Space

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BY TIANYU FANG  Source Link Amid the escalating political and economic tensions across the Pacific, the 350,000 Chinese students in ...

Why Was ISIS Successful?

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By Kenneth M. Pollack Source Link The following essay is adapted from ' Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Mi...

Terrorist Use of Cryptocurrencies

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by Cynthia Dion-Schwarz, David Manheim, Patrick B. Johnston Source Link Are terrorist groups currently using cryptocurrencies to sup...

The Future of Urban Warfare in the Age of MegacitiesFocus stratégique, No. 88, March 2019

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Source Link In recent years, cities like Aleppo, Sana’a, and Mosul have suffered siege warfare, aerial and artillery bombardments, and...

Beyond the Hanoi Summit

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Source Link The awkward and obviously unintentional collapse of the talks between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump on February 28 in Hanoi...

The Lost Art of American Diplomacy

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By William J. Burns Source Link Diplomacy may be one of the world’s oldest professions, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood....

The Living Lessons of Vietnam

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JOHN ANDREWS Source Link Three recent books about the Vietnam War shed fresh light on well-trodden ground, suggesting that America’s...

Agreements Establishing Confucius Institutes at U.S. Universities Are Similar, but Institute Operations Vary

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Source Link What GAO Found According to the Chinese Language Council International, also referred to as Hanban, Confucius Institutes a...

What Happened in Hanoi?

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Jessica T. Mathews Source Link Shortly after the success of The Art of the Deal(1987) made Donald Trump a supposed expert on negotia...

What the withdrawal agreement ‘separation’ actually means for Brexit

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Tom Kibasi Source Link So we now know that the third attempt at the meaningful vote will not take place this week. In its place, the...

Perspectives on Taiwan Insights from the 2018 Taiwan-U.S. Policy Program

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Bonnie S. Glaser Source Link The papers in this compendium were written by the 10 members of the 2018 CSIS Taiwan-U.S. Policy Progra...

The World's Third Pole Is Melting

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By Dechen Palmo Source Link The Tibetan plateau, which holds the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) ice sheet, is known as the world’s “Third...

What Sri Lanka’s 2019 Budget Tells Us About Its Economic Health

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By Umesh Moramudali Source Link Following one of the most dramatic political crises in the recent history of South Asia, Sri Lank...

These are all the world's major religions in one map

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Frank Jacobs Source Link A picture says more than a thousand words, and that goes for this world map as well. This map conveys not...

Organising a Government for Cyber: The Creation of the UK’s National Cyber Security CentreRobert Hannigan

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Source Link The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) was officially opened by Her Majesty the Queen in February 2017. It was the...

HTTPS ISN'T ALWAYS AS SECURE AS IT SEEMS

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ALYSSA FOOTE Source Link WIDESPREAD ADOPTION OF the web encryption scheme HTTPS has added a lot of green padlocks —and corresponding...

Andrew Marshall, Pentagon’s Threat Expert, Dies at 97

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By Julian E. Barnes Source Link WASHINGTON — Andrew Marshall, a Pentagon strategist who helped shape American military thinking on t...

Why the biggest and best struggle to grow

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By Nicholas F. Lawler, Robert S. McNish, and Jean-Hugues J. Monier Source Link The largest companies eventually find size itself an ...

The Pentagon is ‘Absolutely Unapologetic’ About Pursuing AI-Powered Weapons

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By Jack Corrigan Source Link Protecting the U.S. in the decades ahead will require the Pentagon to make “substantial, sustained” inv...

Working in Non-Permissive Environments: Arming Civilians Isn’t the Answer

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By Leon S. Waskin Source Link USAID has long sought to develop an approach for the rapid deployment of its staff into high threat re...

‘How Is Yoda?’: An Appreciation Of Andy Marshall

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By ANDREW KREPINEVICH Source Link Last year while in Japan for a meeting with senior defense and military leaders, the question mo...
30 March 2019

Pak lie exposed by India Today TV: Terroristan flew F-16 jets to attack India

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Rahul Kanwal  Source Link In an interview, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said no American warplane had been deployed  India Today's fin...

Asian Free Trade Proposal Is Broad in Scope, Narrow in Focus

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Source Link The proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)'s comparatively narrow focus on tariffs to the exclusi...

One Step Closer to an Elusive Peace in Afghanistan

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Ahmed Rashid Source Link Last year, when President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead for negotiations to start between the US and the T...

US-China Who Is Bigger and When

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Source Link When will China pass the US in economic size? The near-universal belief that the People's Republic of China (PRC) has ...

When China Convinced the US That Uighurs Were Waging Jihad

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BY RICHARD BERNSTEIN Source Link They arrived at the American detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba—where, as Defense Secretary D...