Categories for Neighbours Watch
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China’s Six Decades of Unremitting Offensive Military Adventurism Calls for Indian Foreign Policy Reset
China defying global geopolitical dynamics heavily weighted against China and in favour of India has been engaged since May 2020 in unprovoked military escalation and armed clashes in Eastern Ladakh. Chinese triumphal arrogance against India calls for an urgent reset... View Article
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Nepal Parliament Dissolved Fresh Elections In April/May 2021
The internal dispute within the Ruling Party between Prime Minister Oli and the other top leaders of the Party reached its climax recently with the Cabinet convened by PM oli-recommended a dissolution of the Parliament. As expected the “Rubber Stamp”... View Article
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Nepal: Massive Demonstration in Kathmandu for restoration of Monarchy: Its Significance
For the first time since the promulgation of federal Constitution of 2015, Kathmandu witnessed a major demonstration on 5th December demanding the restoration of monarchy. A week before that, a similar much smaller demonstration took place in the City. The... View Article
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Myanmar NLD of Suu Kyi has an overwhelming Victory: Time for Reconciliation
It is now official. Defying all predictions, the National League for Democracy (NLD) of Suu Kyi has swept the polls with 258 and 138 in the Lower and Upper Houses respectively, thus exceeding its own performance in the 2015 elections... View Article
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China’s Expansionism A Strategic Perspective
China has been pursuing expansionist designs for a long time now. Being a communist country, analysts believe expansionism is crucial to its ideology. To support their view, they cite the instance of the erstwhile Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)... View Article
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Crimson Tide Sweeps Nepal
The recent turn in India-China relations and events in Nepal surprised many but not those who know that China plans 50 years ahead and kept track of developments – joining the dots as they emerged. In fact, Nepal should be... View Article
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India is indeed their Motherland
This 25th March a Gurdwara in Kabul was bathed in blood. Twenty five devotees were felled by their burst of bullets or blown up with explosives by Jihadis. Their undoing was their faith. It is not that Afghanistan’s history has... View Article
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Sri Lanka: Victory of Rajapaksa- What it means to Tamil Polity?
The victory of Gotabaya Rajapaksa was much anticipated in the recently held 16th November presidential elections in Sri Lanka given the course of national politics after the evaporation of false euphoria over the success of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime... View Article
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Pakistan Army Pushes Pakistan to Existential Crossroads
Pakistan Army which tightly controls Pakistan’s foreign policy and security formulations has endangered Pakistan’s survival as an independent Nation-State with a looming critical existential crisis that emerges from what I would term as “Pakistan Army’s mythical obsession of geopolitical and... View Article
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FATF To Pakistan: Fall In Line Or Be Ready To Face Action
It is most heartening to learn that in a clear, loud and unequivocal message, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has sought to send out a blunt message to Pakistan on the issue of curbing terror financing: Either fall in... View Article
