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• China Tanks Up Its Expeditionary Forces • Kashmir: New Normal or Abnormal? • When the Hunters Became the Hunted: The Galwan Valour • India's Submarines: Towards Regional Dominance • New Global Corporate Tax Rate - Singapore's Concerns • Transient Images and Permanent Reality of India • Myanmar Crisis - What is ASEAN Waiting For? • Uninhabited Islands of Lakshadweep- A Major Security Threat • TLP- The New Face of Militancy in Pakistan • Is Quad Fulfilling Deng Xiaoping’s Vision? • Pakistani Nexus With Hamas: The Inside Story • Himalayan Blunder 2020 : This Time It's China • 04 June 1989: The Date CCP Wants to Forget • Xi is Fine, Blame it on Modi!

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Kashmir: New Normal or Abnormal?

Reading Time: 6 minutes by Sushant Sareen. Earlier this month, the rumour mills started working overtime in the Kashmir valley. The buzz on the streets, in the corridors of power and of course in cyberspace was of something big about to happen.

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China Tanks Up Its Expeditionary Forces

Reading Time: 7 minutes by ANI & Team Chanakya. CCTV, China's state-owned television broadcaster, revealed something significant in a report aired on 2 June. It showed members of the PLA Navy Marine Corps (PLANMC) examining new ZTQ-15 light tanks after an exercise.

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When the Hunters Became the Hunted: The Galwan Valour

Reading Time: 7 minutes by Cdr Sandeep Dhawan (Retd). On the fateful night of 15 June 2020, the infamous Galwan Valley reverberated with 16 Bihar regiment’s war cry ‘Bajrang Bali ki Jai’ & ‘Birsa Munda Ki Jai’. The war cry had followed an extraordinary event.

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India’s Submarines: Towards Regional Dominance

Reading Time: 7 minutes by Brig Arvind Dhananjayan (Retd), Team Chanakya. In today’s geopolitical scenario, it is but apt that countries do all that they can to protect their coastal waters and seafaring trade. It is important for the Indian Navy’s submarine arm to continue its modernisation to increase dominance amongst the littorals.

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Transient Images and Permanent Reality of India

Reading Time: 6 minutes India is currently going through an image crisis. Can India win this battle of fighting the images created by a certain mindset in the west, which infects public opinion everywhere else in the world.

FROM THE GENERAL’S DESK

By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)

Himalayan Blunder 2020: This Time It’s China ...Read more

THE CHANAKYA DIALOGUES

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Is this the beginning of a war between US and China? – Major Gaurav Arya speaks to Sushant Sareen

International Affairs

Disaster of the Century Has No Origins!

Thu, 10 Jun 2021

Reading Time: 4 minutes by Kanwal Sibal, Former Foreign Secretary. The Wuhan virus pandemic has done grave damage to countries everywhere, barring China, which is most ironical.

TLP – The New Face of Militancy in Pakistan
Wed, 09 Jun 2021
Reading Time: 7 minutes by Qamar Cheema. The Sunni Barelvi philosophy took shape in the form of Tehreek e Labaik Pakistan (TLP), whom I call the “New Militants in Pakistan”. The traditional armed Islamic militants had challenged the writ of the state.
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Is Quad Fulfilling Deng Xiaoping’s Vision?
Tue, 08 Jun 2021
Reading Time: 7 minutes by Debnath Shaw, Former Ambassador. Has the situation described more than forty-seven years ago, by Deng Xiaoping, who later became China’s paramount leader after Mao, arrived?
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Defence and Strategy

Climate Change as a Threat to India’s Military Strategies

Sat, 05 Jun 2021

Reading Time: 6 minutes by Dr Dhanasree Jayaram, Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations. As the climate crisis worsens across the world and in India (more specifically), it will have significant implications for the country’s security actors, particularly the military.

Security of Lakshadweep is Top Priority
Wed, 02 Jun 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutes by Dr Seshadri Chari. The controversy surrounding the draft Bill ‘Lakshadweep Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Regulation 2021’ uploaded by the Lakshadweep administrator in January this year inviting comments and suggestions from the public, is unfortunate, to say the least.
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PLA Armour Offensive in Himalayas
Sun, 30 May 2021
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Lt Gen KJ Singh, (Retd)…PLA has injected more versatility in their armoured fleet with introduction of light tank, ZTQ, first fielded during Doklam crisis. Our BMP-2s, ICVs, duly integrated with medium tanks can be adapted for some of the relevant tasks. The Chinese threat, though stemmed currently could manifest again and more such forays can’t be… Read more…
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Policy & Governance

Twitter War – Who Decides About India’s Security?

Fri, 04 Jun 2021

Reading Time: 5 minutes by Dr Pavan Duggal, Chairman of International Commission on Cybersecurity Law. The last few weeks have seen some heightened tension between the Government of India on the one hand and social media intermediaries in general on the other hand.

A Jaishankar Odyssey
Thu, 03 Jun 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutes by TP Sreenivasan, Former Ambassador. Dr Jaishankar has been a major player in the developments in India-US relations in different capacities, but his present visit was a challenge even for him because it took place in exceptional circumstances.
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Drugs and Guns Invade Lakshadweep
Sat, 29 May 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutes By Dr G Shreekumar Menon…China is planning a big offensive naval arc, extending from Bay of Bengal-Indian Ocean-Arabian sea. India has a lot of homework to do. But, what needs immediate attention is to trace the drug-recipient groups operating in Lakshadweep.
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