Fu Ying is chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress of China and chairperson of the Academic Committee of the National Institute of Global Strategy at t... Read more
Russia Risks a Showdown with Israel Over Hezbollah in Syria
Back in 1967, Moscow shrugged when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran, cutting shipping routes to the Israeli port of Eilat—Israel’s only one in the Red Sea. E... Read more
Can ASEAN Be Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts?
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is turning 50 this year, but the 10-member group is still taking baby steps toward integration. As usual, unity will be a rhetorical theme... Read more
First the good news: the Indian Navy may soon tap the government for funds to build a second aircraft carrier. This would either be a 65,000-tonne nuclear-powered flattop or a 100,000-tonne... Read more
In battle to control sea and air, how do China’s aircraft carriers stack up against other nations?
China is about to launch its first homebuilt aircraft carrier, once the tidal conditions are right at the dock where the vessel has been under construction in Dalian. Weighing 70,000 tonnes... Read more
Fifth column: A new jihad in Kashmir
The Kashmir Valley has become a warzone today because of radical Islam. This is the exact same genre of Islam that caused the terrorist attack in Paris last week. And the exact same genre th... Read more
Gilgit-Baltistan: Pakistan’s Changed Calculations
A Pakistani committee has recommended to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that Gilgit-Baltistan should be declared the country’s fifth province. For 70 years Pakistan has avoided integrating its... Read more
Army Modernization
The Indian Army Armored Corps comprises 63 regiments and has massive modernization and upgradation program to match the rival forces across the border. However the tardy manner in which the... Read more
Surgical Striker: How the BrahMos is Becoming India’s War Winner
There’s a reason why rocket scientist Sivathanu Pillai likes to describe the BrahMos cruise missile as the “Brahmastra for the Indian armed forces.” Although the supersonic BrahMos is not qu... Read more
Opinion: summit was not quite the meeting of equals Xi would have wanted
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to US President Donald Trump’s over-the-top estate at Mar-a-Lago in Florida was meant to offer an opportunity to showcase China as an equal to th... Read more