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Prof. Kondapalli on "Bilateral Give And Take" in Sino-India Relations

Dr. Kondapalli, Professor in Chinese Studies at the Centre, on "Bilateral Give And Take" in Sino-India Relations in The Times of India asserts that the joint communique, unlike previous such bilateral announcements, was surprisingly silent on the much-anticipated Chinese reversal of stapled visas to Kashmir residents in India. In fact, there is also no mention either of Tibet or Taiwan as parts of China for the first time. The two sides, however, reiterated that "sensitivity for each other's concerns and aspirations" should be respected. This is an indication that, during hard diplomatic bargaining, South Block had been insisting effectively on the reciprocity principle possibly for the first time.

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Rajiv Ranjan on "Water Wars? Damming the Brahmaputra and Its Implications" in Opinion Asia

Rajiv Ranjan, a PhD Candidate at the Centre, on "Water Wars? Damming the Brahmaputra and Its Implications" in Opinion Asia has argued that water may taken on an overtly political dimension, even escalating to a limited military confrontation threatening the peace and stability of the region. It becomes critical therefore that China, India and Bangladesh work towards joint river management for the sustainable development of the Brahmaputra basin if political tension and a military showdown is to be avoided.

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Shashi Bhushan Bharti, a PhD Candidate at the Centre, with his debut book "The China Factor In ROK- U.S. Relations: Trilateral approach"

Shashi Bhushan Bharti, a PhD Candidate in Korean Division at the Centre, in his debut book "The China Factor In ROK- U.S. Relations: Trilateral approach".

"South Korean Peninsula has been the flash point of conflicts between the two power blocks right since the beginning of Cold War. Korea got divided like many other countries namely Vietnam, Germany etc. because of the onset of cold-war between the two superpowers two power blocks. Since then the world politics has been partially determine by the events/happenings in the Korean peninsula or to put it more appropriately in the North-East Asia as like China, Japan, Taiwan (Formosa) and even South-East Asia, through ought Cold War period Korea like Japan remained as flash point for two super powers two power blocks. In post cold war the relevance of South Korea as a strategic partner has not decline precisely because China still remained as a communist state despite having embraced market-led economic system. South Korea's geo-strategic importance becomes all the more relevant because of other half of Korea ie, North Korea still remains communist and has gone nuclear recently. Relations between the United State and Korea have expanded at great extent after the Korean War (1950-1953)"- Book's Blurb

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Gunjan Singh and Avinash Godbole on "Peninsular Shells and the Chinese Dilemma(?)"

 Yeonpyeong in the Yellow Sea

North Korea is one of those places where all deterrence theories fall flat on their face. The recent instance of North Korean (DPRK) shelling on the South Korean territory of Yeonpyeong is a case in point.

Why does the DPRK behave the way it does? And how it may be related to the recent Chinese pronouncements on "Core Interests?"

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Prof. Kondapalli reviews Frank Dikötter's "Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962"

Prof. Kondapalli reviews Frank Dikötter's "Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962" in Hindustan Times. He points out that this book is a useful correction to our understanding of this period, which was devastated by famine and hunger that devoured an estimated 30-40 million Chinese. With the aid of several archival sources and interviews, Dikötter deconstructs the period and, in the process, throws light on the political aspirations and intrigues, plans and changes on the bucolic people as well as in urban areas of China. At its centre lies the theme of policies that led to the worst famine that China witnessed in the late 1950s.

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