India’s Economic Ascent: The Road to Global Leadership India’s economic rise is increasingly becoming a defining feature of the emerging global order. From being the world’s tenth-largest economy in 2015, India has climbed the global rankings and is projected to become the third-largest economy by 2031, according to the projections cited from the International Monetary…
Too much hype orchestrated by various agencies on the “Youth Dividend” (often referred to interchangeable with the “Demographic Dividend”? What is the reality? Undeniably, young people in India are not properly educated, up-skilled and integrated into the workforce. Let none suffer from illusions on the above count. The “Youth Dividend” is commonly viewed as the…
What did the recent Trump-Xi summit actually accomplish? Are geopolitics at a strategic crossroads or at an inflection point? How will the TROIKA powers – China, the U.S., and Russia – deliberations impact the strategic postures of middle powers, like India, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, among others? What are the future strategies for India…
China “Dream by 2049″ – Dominant Nation Status China’s “Dream by 2049,” is achieving dominant nation status, which is officially defined by Beijing as leading the world in “composite national strength and international influence”: Economic, Technology, military, and Social Power. The CCP views the post-WWII, Western-dominated international system as a historical anomaly that must be…
Napoleon Bonaparte’s prophetic cliché “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world”, made in 1814, has at last arrived before mankind. Xi Jinping himself used a version of the quote in a March 2014 speech in France (200 years later): “The lion that is China has awoken, but it is a…
(………….Continued) Security Trajectory – Great Power Politics The Arctic has risen on the world’s strategic agenda because the U.S. and Russia are already in the region, and because China has been progressively expanding its presence there. Both USA and NATO have been lambasting both Russian and Chinese actions in the region, which represented a clear…
As Francis Fukuyama wrote, “major crises have major consequences, usually unforeseen.” Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Arctic Ocean/Sea of the 21st century. Commonly viewed as a “territory of dialogue,” the Arctic has, over the past three decades, won a reputation as a “zone of peace”. However, few places have been the source…
As Francis Fukuyama has written, “major crises have major consequences, usually unforeseen.” Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Arctic Ocean/Sea of the 21st century. Commonly viewed as a “territory of dialogue,” the Arctic has, over the past three decades, won a reputation as a “zone of peace”. However, few places have been the…
Brig (Retd.) G.B. Reddi It is deeply disturbing to watch the political discourse in the country being reduced to sensational claims, sweeping allegations and arguments that appear to substitute suspicion for evidence. More disturbing is when such narratives are projected on national television as though they constitute facts. The latest controversy surrounding the Special Intensive…
Brig (retd) G.B. Reddi Delhi certainly claims the dubious distinction of being the “Capital of Rapes”. None of the people of Delhi should suffer from any illusions on this count. Apportioning the blame to the “Law and Order” machinery is the common refrain after every rape. “CASTRATION” punishment followed by “Bulldozer” justice can only redress…
