The writer, a former ambassador, is an expert on India-China affairs.
June 15,2004 00:00:00 AM
The military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are inevitably impelling US planners to contemplate a global military. The current US strateg...
April 13,2004 00:00:00 AM
The notion that America’s strategic engagement in Central Asia will pose a counterweight against Russia and Islamic threats has begun t...
March 16,2004 00:00:00 AM
An international effort is needed to retrieve Burma into the international mainstream. The debate about what ought to be done has gone on fo...
February 11,2004 00:00:00 AM
The recent visit of Nambariin Enkbayar, prime minister of Mongolia, may have gone unnoticed by media but it has far-reaching significance fo...
January 17,2004 00:00:00 AM
A new sense of optimism has been generated following the Loya Jirga’s approval of a draft constitution to build a future Afghanistan de...
November 01,2003 00:00:00 AM
After successful diplomacy in Southeast Asia, India is now primed to replay its historical role in Central Asia after a gap. A series of ini...
September 18,2003 00:00:00 AM
Regardless of New Delhi recently closing its Tibet option, the Dalai Lama continues to receive immense support in the Western world for his ...
April 25,2003 00:00:00 AM
The world has a way of changing itself following the Buddhist doctrine of impermanence: That only one law never changes—that all things...
December 18,2002 00:00:00 AM
The strategic complexion of Central Asia has undergone a sweeping change since 9/11. The US has created unprecedented military bases in the ...
July 07,1999 00:00:00 AM
The Pakistani intrusion in Kargil is reminiscent of the Chinese intrusion of 1962 in Ladakh's eastern flank, when the PLA caught the inco...