Indo-Pacific

Analysis of Indo-Pacific security architecture, QUAD, maritime strategy, South China Sea tensions, and regional balance of power dynamics.

Is Beijing planning to take Taiwan back … by force? SCMP

Sharing comments of mine  on articles by Minni Chan in South China Morning Post SCMP of 15 March 2018, along with my latest update on the issue as on 20 March 2018. When US President Donald Trump approved a travel…

Interview of Maj Gen S B Asthana by Financial Express on Pakistan, China and some related issues

Notwithstanding the President Xi Jinping becoming autocratic ruler of China, trying to take Asia under his wings, and no significant change in Pakistan’s behavior in recent times (including recent spate with diplomats), India has to deal firmly with both, on our…

Interview with Major General Asthana about the Indo-Pacific and Af-Pak: “China exhibits a hegemonic design” By Global Review (Germany).

  I am sharing with friends my interview with Global Review ( Germany). The interviewer is Von Ralf Ostener. The Interview has been taken in English and published in German language. Although I am attaching the URL below, but there…

Interview of Major General S B Asthana on Doklam Issue by Diplomacy and Beyond Plus

Sharing an interview of mine by Diplomacy & Beyond published on December 12, 2017 on the Doklam standoff between India and China. The standoff was a litmus test for India in terms of how resolutely it could stand up against a belligerent China…

Is Nuclear Blackmailing Theory going to be a New Normal? Is the World helpless in facing its dangerous Implications?

  As against high expectations from President Trump’s long tour of Asia, there seems to be  no change in North Korea flash point except ‘Old’ and ‘Fat’ jibes. It appears that world community at large seems to be settling down…