Trump's turn at Modi's Houston rally only obscures US-India rifts

Washington's pressure on New Delhi benefits America's adversaries

Dispelling the myths of Kashmir

NEW DELHI – The Indian government’s recent decision to revoke Kashmir’s special semi-autonomous status has raised fears of yet another conflict...

Myths of Kashmir

NEW DELHI – The Indian government’s recent decision to revoke Kashmir’s special semi-autonomous status has raised fears of yet another conflict...

Changes on the Indo-Pacific’s geopolitical chessboard

NEW DELHI – The Indo-Pacific region’s geopolitical flux is being highlighted by several developments. The escalating U.S.-China trade war is...

Damming the Mekong basin to environmental hell

BANGKOK – Major dam construction projects have become a favorite pastime of some autocratic governments, with China leading the way. But, far from...

Japan gets a wake-up call from Trump

Since July 25 alone, North Korea has test-fired three new short-range ballistic missile systems, indicating that it has been busy boosting its...

Damming the Mekong Basin to Environmental Hell

BANGKOK – Major dam construction projects have become a favorite pastime of some autocratic governments, with China leading the way. But, far from...

From moon walk to space wars

NEW DELHI - Fifty years after astronauts first walked on the moon, space wars have gone from Hollywood fantasy to looming threat. Not content with...

From Moon Walk to Space Wars

NEW DELHI – Fifty years after astronauts first walked on the Moon, space wars have gone from Hollywood fantasy to looming threat. Not content with...

China’s Tiananmen reckoning

HONG KONG - The 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of at least 10,000 people is significant for several reasons. For one thing, the...

China’s Tiananmen Reckoning

HONG KONG – The 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of at least 10,000 people is significant for several reasons. For one thing, the...

Election triumph will boost Modi's international clout

Modi victory augurs well for Japan-India ties

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landslide win in national elections will help cement the Japan-India relationship as Asia’s...

Pathways to tackling the plastic waste problem

BERLIN - Is the human species becoming a cancer on the planet? This question arises from the grim findings of a new United Nations study that human...

Asia is now ground zero for Islamist terrorism

NEW DELHI - The Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka rank among the deadliest terrorist attacks in modern history and underscore the metastasizing...

Asia Is the New Ground Zero for Islamist Terror

NEW DELHI – The Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka rank among the deadliest terrorist attacks in modern history, and underscore the metastasizing...

Uighur crackdown highlights Xi’s totalitarian ambitions

NEW DELHI - For more than two years, China has waged a campaign of unparalleled repression against its Islamic minorities, incarcerating an estimated...

Global Silence on China’s Gulag

NEW DELHI – For more than two years, China has waged a campaign of unparalleled repression against its Islamic minorities, incarcerating an...

The looming specter of Asian space wars

Pakistan, China and terrorism

Why the Pakistan-Terrorist Nexus Persists

BERLIN – Once again, an attack on India by a Pakistan-based terrorist group has raised the specter of a major confrontation on the Indian...

How the terrorist threat from Pakistan can be quelled

BERLIN - Pakistan’s current faceoff with India has come at an awkward time. All three of its main neighbors — India, Iran and Afghanistan — have...

Awkward hole in India's election debate -- foreign policy

Trump’s gift to the Taliban

NEW DELHI - After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan and removed the Taliban from power, thereby eliminating a key...

The shackles of history in a democracy

NEW DELHI - History helps shape national perceptions and perspectives and undergirds national security. However, the boundary between historical fact...

Trump’s Gift to the Taliban

NEW DELHI – After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan and removed the Taliban from power, thereby eliminating a...

China’s new age of uncertainty

BERLIN - In a year marking the 70th anniversary of its founding, the People’s Republic of China appears to have entered a new era of uncertainty...

The vital isolation of indigenous groups

NEW DELHI - The remote coral-fringed North Sentinel Island made headlines late last year, after an American Christian missionary’s covert expedition...

The Vital Isolation of Indigenous Groups

NEW DELHI – The remote, coral-fringed North Sentinel Island made headlines late last year, after an American Christian missionary’s covert...

China at the crossroads

BERLIN - Four decades ago, the Chinese Communist Party, under its new paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, decided to subordinate ideology to wealth...

A mortal threat to Asia's rise

Beijing’s South China Sea grab

MANILA - It has been just five years since China initiated its major land reclamation in the South China Sea, and the country has already shifted the...

China’s South China Sea Grab

MANILA – It has been just five years since China initiated its major land reclamation in the South China Sea, and the country has already shifted...

Treat China like the bully it is

NEW DELHI – In clear reprisal for Canada’s U.S.-sought arrest of the Huawei founder’s daughter, China has detained two Canadians on charges of...

Evangelist's fatal exploits highlight threat to indigenous tribes

Building a ‘free and open’ Indo-Pacific

AUSTRALIA – The Indo-Pacific is emerging as the center of global power and wealth, with security dynamics changing rapidly in the region. The...

A concert of democracies in the Indo-Pacific region

On his weeklong tour of Asia, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has been promoting a vision of a “free and open” Indo-Pacific region, characterized...

Sri Lanka -- democracy in danger

A Concert of Indo-Pacific Democracies

TOKYO – On his week-long tour of Asia, US Vice President Mike Pence has been promoting a vision of a “free and open” Indo-Pacific region,...

The linchpins for a rules-based Indo-Pacific

NEW DELHI – The spotlight on the Beijing summit between Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping cannot obscure the more substantive discussions...

The end of America’s China fantasy

WASHINGTON – A long-overdue shift in America’s China policy is underway. After decades of “constructive engagement” — an approach that has...

The End of America’s China Fantasy

WASHINGTON – A long-overdue shift in America’s China policy is underway. After decades of “constructive engagement” – an approach that has...

The Beijing backlash begins

HONG KONG – On a recent official visit to China, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad criticized his host country’s use of major...

No easy escape from Afghan war for Trump

The China Backlash

HONG KONG – On a recent official visit to China, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad criticized his host country’s use of major...

Beijing loses a battle in the Maldives -- but the fight for influence goes on

China expands its control in South China Sea

NEW DELHI – As China consolidates its hold in South China Sea and wields its military, economic and diplomatic leverage, smaller countries see no...