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India-China Cyber Asymmetry: Act Now
India-China Cyber Asymmetry: Act Now This is a regular working day in Mumbai, India. The lines outside the ATMs and Bank tellers are getting serpentine, and people are losing their…
Chinese checkers in the Middle East: Play or Perish
Chinese checkers in the Middle East: Play or Perish As the United States vacates some of the foreign outposts, China is moving in to fill up the vacuum at a…
China’s Rare-Earth Dominance – A Death Knell for Free World
“Change is constant, but no amount of change will turn the attitude of vulture to that of eagle.” ― Bamigboye Olurotimi Over the past several decades, while the United States…
Damocles Sword: The Everlasting Threat of Pakistan Losing Its Nukes
In November 2007, in South Africa’s nuclear research facility Pelindaba, two armed squads attacked from opposite sides of the site. The first squad got through a 10,000-volt security fence. They…
2021: The Year of Disruptive Technologies and New Blocks
If 2020 was the year of pandemic then 2021 will be the year of creation of new blocks and disruptive technologies. Countries like China will take advantage of a vulnerable…
CHINA CREATING AN ORWELLIAN WORLD WITH INFORMATION WARFARE
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell – 1984 Chinese state and its leadership (Chinese Communist Party – CCP) are getting nervous at the…
China’s Coming War with the World
In the year 2015, China published a strategy document – China’s military strategy, on the future PLA war designs. This enumerated shifting the focus from the ‘offshore…
Time to Exploit Deceptive China’s Fault Lines
Today every free country is looking at China in disbelief. The CPC and XI Jinping have opened up a number of fronts, more than they can afford. China faces humongous…
By Cdr Sandeep Dhawan (Retd)
