Pranay K Shome

–The writer is currently working as a Research Associate at Defence Research and Studies (dras.in) and is a columnist. The views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda

Playing a Balancing Game: Quad Countries Must Jump the Trade Barrier for the Sake of Taiwan

  US president’s remark that the US will intervene militarily in case Taiwan is attacked is encouraging but the million-dollar question is: Will the other Quad countries follow suit? The Russo-Ukraine war, which enters its third...

Combating the Dragon’s Intransigence

India and China are two of the oldest civilisations in the world with rich culture, heritage and history. Ties between the two countries date back to ancient times. It was believed that since China...

India’s Contemporary Security Concerns in South Asia

  "You can change friends, not neighbours” was famously said by former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Security is one of the most important issues which affected and continues to affect the course...

Asian Unity: No Longer a Pipe Dream

  Recently, the Chinese President Xi Jinping has given a call for promoting Asian unity. He argued that the time has come for Asian nations to set aside their respective cultural, linguistic, economic and all...

Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy in the Contemporary World

  The global human society is in a constant state of flux, every dimension and aspect of human activity is undergoing change. Politics is no different, especially international politics. Ever since the establishment of the...

Testing Times For Euro-American Unity

Seven decades after the end of the Second World War Europe is on the brink of a new grave conflict that is testing not only the collective unity of Euro- American values but also...

Shifting Sands in the Neighbourhood

  Change is the very law of nature. This completely fits in the context of the current Pakistani approach towards its shifting priorities. The first ever National Security Policy that the Imran Khan government has released recently...

Playing the Mediator

  Iran and the West are again at loggerheads - this time over the increasingly ‘provocative’ Iranian demands vis-a-vis the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) or the Iranian nuclear accord. The West particularly the...

Himalayan Blunder

  According to a Chinese proverb two tigers cannot stay on a single mountain. This seems to be absolutely fitting with the current Chinese foreign policy. China under Xi Jinping has shed its image of...

China-Hurtling Towards the Abyss

  Xi Jingping is the man of the moment and why won’t he be, the National People’s Congress(NPC) - the Chinese ‘parliament’ has recently handed him an unprecedented third term in office, effectively elevating him...

Pakistan on the Brink

  Statecraft and politics is all about making dangerous and risky choices which promotes the betterment of the people and helps in bolstering the popular legitimacy of the state, but it ostensibly appears that Pakistan...

Reorienting India’s Russo-China Policy

  The Chanakyan dictum of “there are no permanent friends and foes in politics” fits perfectly in the context of the recent bonhomie between China and Russia and their common approach on multiple foreign policy...

Tackling China

  There is a pattern in Chinese approach towards Taiwan-denying the legitimacy of the latter’s existence, reinforcing the principal of one China & the constant international propagation of the Chinese communist party’s message that Taiwan...
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