Articles

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.) Article

With a meeting of the EAM Jaishankar with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Eastern Ladakh has come in focus again. Most information and analysis of the events in Eastern Ladakh of 2020 and the first half of 2021 have been analysed in fine detail, an....

July 19, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , PLA , LAC , Ladakh , Galwan , Pangong Tso , Kailash Range , media centre

Eastern Ladakh: NTR - ‘Trust but Verify’ Information!

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.) Article

Apparently, and correctly, there is a reportage fatigue on Eastern Ladakh, because of the intensification and severity of pandemic and as post 11th Round of Talks at Moldo, in military coinage, there is NTR (nothing to report). Sporadic articles quot....

April 26, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , WMCC , PLA , LAC , Ladakh , Depsang , Pangong Tso , Military Exercises , PPs , Raki Nala

Influences and Performance of Intelligence: Assessment of Intelligence Inputs in 2020 Ladakh Military Standoff

Col Pradeep Jaidka (Retd.) Article

‘The further one looks back, the further he looks ahead’ Historically, military might alone served as the primary instrument of national power and for securing national interests. Later diplomacy, economic power, science and technology ....

February 03, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Tibet , Article , UAV , Aksai Chin , Ladakh , ISR , Pangong Tso , intelligence gaps , PLA Tibet

India-China Line of Actual Control: Increasingly Fuzzier…

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.) Article

Though comparisons are odious, Line of Control (LOC) and Line of Actual Control (LAC) are chalk and cheese! The Karachi Agreement of 1949 delineated the Ceasefire Line (CFL), following directional paths in the absence of clear landmarks, by demarcati....

January 29, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , LoC , Aksai Chin , LAC , Pangong Tso , salami slicing , Simla Convention , Scarborough Shoal

Addressing the China Challenge

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

(This is a modified version of the talk delivered by Mr. Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF at the Panchnad Research Institute recently)

I propose to dwell essentially on three issues namely the nature and gravity of this challenge, it....

September 22, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Pakistan , China , South China Sea , Taiwan , CPEC , PLA , COVID-19 , WTO , LAC , Tibet , Galwan valley , CBMs , Pangong Tso , Wang Yi , data theft , Sino-US , Sinkiang

Distrust More, Verify More: India-China Relations Post Foreign Ministers’ Meeting

Amb Kanwal Sibal Article

China, through his reckless aggression in Ladakh has seriously jeopardised peace and tranquility on the India-Tibet border. China is already in occupation of large parts of Indian territory in Ladakh. To seek to consolidate its hold on this occupied ....

September 13, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , SCO , LAC , Depsang , Galwan , CBMs , Pangong Tso , Foreign Ministers , Spanggur Gap

India-China Face Off- Has China Committed a Faux Pas?

Amb Kanwal Sibal Article

China has committed a grave error in triggering a military confrontation in Ladakh. It has underestimated the Indian resolve to stand up to its bullying tactics. Doklam should have been a warning to China that its military efforts to gain territorial....

September 09, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Xi Jinping , CCP , PLA , LAC , Ladakh , Pangong Tso , Wang Yi , economic front , military conflict , Defence Ministers meeting

Inflexion in Sino-Indian Relations: Case for Strategic Pragmatism

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.) Article

The new China has shown itself as muscular, aggressive, expansionist and determined to force its way to top of the world stage by vigourously establishing Pax Sinica. China’s in the past three decades has been rapidly growing economically ....

August 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , QUAD , PLA , BRI , Aksai Chin , COVID-19 , LAC , Ladakh , CBMs , Pangong Tso