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Engaging and managing the dragon is a tough proposition

AVM Arjun Subramaniam (retd) -
As President Trump prepares for his visit to China and East Asia, Jeffrey Bader, Kevin Rudd and Graham Allison offer different perspectives on China.
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Engaging the dragon: Xi Jinping’s China wants to be respected without being respectful

AVM Arjun Subramaniam (retd) -
China’s strategic momentum is truly startling, and it is only a matter of time before the US draws a ‘new normal’ to define its relationship with it.
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India’s military must push to raise its intellectual capital

AVM Arjun Subramaniam (retd) -
The moot point is whether our senior military leadership really wants to influence strategy and policy, or are they happy in their operational cocoons.
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Challenges to a credible national security doctrine

AVM Arjun Subramaniam (retd) -
As the Prime Minister calls for development of intellectual capital within the armed forces, it is time for a credible National Security Doctrine.
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If India starts now, it can finally have a National Security Doctrine by 2022

AVM Arjun Subramaniam (retd) -
The widespread international image of India as a ‘soft state’ must be dispelled by the creation of a national security doctrine.
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It’s time for India to formulate a national security doctrine

AVM Arjun Subramaniam (retd) -
Having a national security doctrine helps avoid ambiguity about dealing with a crisis and to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
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Economy

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Esha Mishra -
Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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