C. Raja Mohan holds the Korea Chair at the Council for Strategic and Defence Research, Delhi and is a contributing editor on international affairs for The Indian Express.
July 01, 2005 02:38 IST
Amidst growing concerns about global warming and rising prices of oil, President George W Bush has underlined the importance of nuclear ener...
Fri, Jul 01, 2005July 01, 2005 02:18 IST
Less than 24 hours after the news media flashed around the world late American President Richard Nixon’s remarks in November 1971 derid...
Fri, Jul 01, 2005June 30, 2005 03:19 IST
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee and US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld unveiled last night in Washington an expansive agenda for bilater...
Thu, Jun 30, 2005June 29, 2005 02:14 IST
As India’s campaign for a permanent seat at the Security Council enters a decisive phase, the Government is dispatching a major lobbyin...
Wed, Jun 29, 2005June 28, 2005 02:51 IST
While nature appears to have taken care of the Parechu dam in Tibet—water levels in the rivers receded today, indicating that the worst...
Tue, Jun 28, 2005June 28, 2005 00:00 IST
The world wants India to assume responsibilities of an emerging great power but our security establishment conditioned by the Third World sy...
Tue, Jun 28, 2005June 27, 2005 02:15 IST
Despite many bureaucratic obstacles, India and the United States are determined to unveil substantive cooperation in the area of civilian nu...
Mon, Jun 27, 2005June 26, 2005 02:03 IST
Ahmadinejad is 48, he invokes the Revolution, makes Washington nervous, is praised by hardline Islamic groups from across the world. New Del...
Sun, Jun 26, 2005June 24, 2005 02:30 IST
Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Nicholas Burns are expected to finalise the contours of...
Fri, Jun 24, 2005June 24, 2005 01:16 IST
As China and India reshape the energy markets of the world, Beijing is taking yet another breathtaking step forward by trying to take over a...
Fri, Jun 24, 2005June 23, 2005 02:20 IST
When the Indian electorate threw out the BJP-led coalition last May, the Chinese government, like other chancelleries around the world, was ...
Thu, Jun 23, 2005June 20, 2005 01:19 IST
It was raining when we left Lhasa. Our destination, the small town of Nyingchi more than 400 km away in the south eastern corner of Tibet, i...
Mon, Jun 20, 2005June 17, 2005 01:55 IST
Although the official Chinese rhetoric against the Dalai Lama remains unyielding, two immediate high-profile events in the coming weeks coul...
Fri, Jun 17, 2005June 16, 2005 02:01 IST
As China pours resources into this south-eastern corner of Tibet to build new infrastructure, Arunachal Pradesh just south of the Nyingchi p...
Thu, Jun 16, 2005June 15, 2005 00:00 IST
Having relentlessly pushed forward the relationship with Pakistan over the last one year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must impart similar ...
Wed, Jun 15, 2005June 14, 2005 01:54 IST
As its internal transport infrastructure expands rapidly, Tibet is looking forward to eventual rail and road links with India and other neig...
Tue, Jun 14, 2005June 13, 2005 00:56 IST
As China steps up its diplomatic offensive against UN reform, Delhi might have good reasons to wonder whether Premier Wen Jiabao’s assu...
Mon, Jun 13, 2005June 11, 2005 02:09 IST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who flew to Leh today to join the annual Sindhu Darshan festivities, might stumble upon an interesting factoi...
Sat, Jun 11, 2005June 10, 2005 01:50 IST
As the first Prime Minister to visit the troops maintaining an impossible vigil at the Siachen glacier, Manmohan Singh will get a sense of t...
Fri, Jun 10, 2005June 10, 2005 01:48 IST
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heads to Jammu and Kashmir again, the third time in less than a year, China is signaling willingness to res...
Fri, Jun 10, 2005June 08, 2005 02:27 IST
Whatever might be his motivation or the personal price he has to pay for the “new speak” on Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali J...
Wed, Jun 08, 2005June 02, 2005 01:57 IST
As India allows Tamil Nadu politicians to exercise a veto over its Sri Lanka policy and squanders the opportunities for enhanced strategic c...
Thu, Jun 02, 2005May 31, 2005 00:00 IST
As he heads out to Singapore this week to participate in the so-called “Shangri La Dialogue” on Asian security, Defence Minister P...
Tue, May 31, 2005May 30, 2005 02:03 IST
Sections of the Indian foreign policy establishment that have been sneering at the special relationship with Israel during the past year hav...
Mon, May 30, 2005May 26, 2005 02:06 IST
By serenading the Nepalese Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai in the capital a few days ago, sections of the government have presented Prime Mi...
Thu, May 26, 2005