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Newspapers & Newsmagazines Articles

  1. “How China Brings India and America Closer: The uses of adversity,” Open magazine, July 17, 2020.

  2.  “Forecasting The Future: Major Global Trends” National Defense Journal, 2020, pp. 40-43.

  3. “Countering China’s Maritime Expansion,” Indo-Pacific Defense Forum, January-February 2020. 

  4. “One Belt One Road: Dimensions, Detours, Fissures, and Fault Lines,” The American Interest, February 19, 2018.

  5. “China and India: The Roots of Hostility,” The Diplomat, September 12, 2017.

  6. “Asia Rebalancing Strategic Imbalance,” The Diplomatist, Vol. 2, Issue No. 12, December 2014, pp. 22-26.

  7. “Seven Strategic Trends in the Indo-Asia Pacific,” Asia-Pacific Defense Forum [US], Vol. 40, Issue 1, 2015, pp. 16-25.

  8. “China and Strategic Imbalance,” The Diplomat, July 14, 2014.

  9. “History the Weak Link in Beijing’s Maritime Claims,” The Diplomat, August 30, 2013.

  10. “Victory without bloodshed’: China’s India Strategy,” The Diplomat, August 20, 2013.

  11. “Chinese Chill: China-India Face-off in the South China Sea: Concert or Conflict?” Force, October 2011, pp. 48-50.

  12. “China and India: Great Power Rivals,” The Diplomat, November 21, 2011.

  13. “Asia’s Great Naval Rivalry,” The Wall Street Journal, September 6, 2011, p. 13.

  14. “Third Party,” Force, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 2010, pp. 58-60. 

  15. “Bordering on Danger: A Sino-Indian boundary dispute risks flaring up,” The Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2009. 

  16. “Rising Powers face off at border,” The Australian, October 30, 2009.

  17. “Yesterday Once More: Behind the Chinese mask,” Force, Vol. 7, No. 3, November 2009, pp. 54-57.

  18. “The Dragon Rises, the Elephant Stirs,” Guanxi: The China Letter, Vol. 2, Issue 8, December 2007, pp. 1, 5-8.

  19. “Chinese conundrum: Distant Dream,” Force, Vol. 4, No. 2, October 2007, pp. 48-50.

  20. “Chinese conundrum: Multilateral Musings,” Force, Vol. 3, No. 11, July 2006, pp. 48-50.

  21. “Chinese conundrum: Breathing Fire,” Force, Vol. 3, No. 8, April 2006, pp. 45-48.

  22. “Chinese conundrum: Divided We’ll Stay,” Force, Vol. 3, No. 6, February 2006, pp. 11-12.

  23. “Chinese conundrum: Rivals, Not Partners,” Force, Vol. 3, No. 5, January 2006, pp. 33-36.

  24. “Chinese conundrum: China’s Peaceful Ruse,” Force, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 29-32.

  25. “Chinese conundrum: Mythical History,” Force, Vol. 2, No. 12, August 2005, pp. 45-47.

  26. “Chinese conundrum: Past Imperfect,” Force, Vol. 2, No. 11, July 2005, pp. 40-43.

  27. “Chinese conundrum: Partial Amnesia,” Force, Vol. 2, No. 10, June 2005, pp. 45-47.

  28. “Chinese conundrum: View of India from a Chinese window,” Force, Vol. 2, No. 8, April 2005, pp. 42-44.

  29. “Burma plays its card with a new suitor,” The Standard [HONGKONG], January 20, 2005. 

  30. “Chinese conundrum:  New Campaign for Burma,” Force, Vol. 2, No. 5, January 2005, pp. 42-44.

  31. “Chinese conundrum: Chinese Hold India at Bay in UN,” Force, Vol. 2, No. 1, September 2004, pp. 25-28.

  32. “Chinese conundrum: New Order in Delhi, New Hopes in China,” Force, Vol. 1, No. 11, July 2004, pp. 48-50.

  33. “Chinese conundrum: Beijing’s Blowback,” Force, Vol. 1, No. 8, June 2004, pp. 44-45.

  34. “Chinese conundrum: China Bazaar,” Force, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 2004, pp. 34-35.

  35. “Chinese conundrum: Compulsions of rivalry,” Force, Vol. 1, No. 5, March 2004, pp. 44-45.

  36. “Chinese conundrum: Learning to Jive with China,” Force, Vol. 1, No. 4, February 2004, pp. 36-37.

  37. “Chinese conundrum: Fear, Awe and Contest,” Force, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 2004, pp. 36-37.

  38. “Chinese conundrum: Dragon Delusions,” Force, Vol. 1, No. 3, November 2003, pp. 39-41. 

  39. “Chinese conundrum: US-India-China: A Tangled Triangle,” Force, Vol. 1, No. 1, August 2003, pp. 56-57. 

  40. “The Proliferation Axis in Asia,” The Pioneer, 29 October 2002, p. 7.

  41. “Dragon’s Shadow,” Pakistan Today, 26 July 2002; also published in The Pioneer, 23 July 2002, p. 7.

  42. “Pakistani Connection,” The Pioneer 19 December 2001, p. 7; also published as “Myanmar’s Pakistan Connection,” News Behind the News [INDIA], 24 December 2001, pp. 4-5.

  43. “End of Cold War also thaws relations between U.S. and India,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin [USA], 3 June 2001, p. D11.

  44. “India as a quasi-ally?” The Pioneer, 13 May 2001, p. 4.

  45. "China worries Japan," The Pioneer, 23 November 2000, p. 8

  46. "Tame the dragon with regional hands," The Pioneer, 24 November 2000, p. 8.

  47. "The Chinese Puzzle," The Pioneer, 23 August 2000, p. 8.

  48. "Indian sun should follow the Chinese sun," The Pioneer, 24 August 2000, p. 8.

  49. "Howard's Charm offensive in India," India Down Under [AUST], July/August 2000, pp. 3-4.

  50. "Indo-US ties on new high," India Down Under, March 2000, pp.1-2.

  51. "Zone of Chaos," The Pioneer, 25 March 2000, p. 8.

  52. "China plays 'the proliferation card'," The Pioneer, 4 March 2000, p. 8.

  53. "China edgy over Clinton's India visit," The Pioneer, 2 March 2000, p. 8.

  54. "As India Becomes a Big Player, China Wants to Freeze the Rules," International Herald Tribune [FRANCE], 29 February 2000.

  55. "India in a China shop," The Hindustan Times [INDIA], 24 February 2000, p.12.

  56. "Is India ready for future wars?" The Pioneer, 22 December 1999, p. 8.

  57. "An India-China-Indonesia Axis?" The Pioneer, 4 December 1999, p. 6.

  58. "China's canny strategy in East Timor," The Japan Times [JAPAN], 9 October 1999, p. 19.

  59. "Why Beijing Is Cooperating With the Timor Action," International Herald Tribune, 8 October 1999.

  60. "Dynamics of Pak hostility," The Hindustan Times, 21 September 1999, p.13.

  61. "The Sino-Pak Nexus," The Hindustan Times, 17 June 1999, p.13.

  62. "China's Asia Policy: Restrain Japan, Contain India," The Japan Times, 12 June 1999, p.21.

  63. "The India-China Divide," The Hindustan Times, 24 May 1999, p.13.

  64. "Recent Security Developments in Asia-Pacific," AUS-CSCAP Newsletter [AUST], No. 7, October 1998, pp.6-7

  65. "The nature of future war," ISEAS Trends [SINGAPORE], 29-30 June 1996, p.1.

  66. "Mongolia's search for new friends," ISEAS Trends, 30 May 1995, p.4.

  67. "A Tale of Two Giants: Economic Liberalization In India and China," Indian Link [AUST], No. 4, 16 January 1995, p.14. 

  68. "Giants stir, and a new geopolitical day dawns," The Age [AUST], 2 December 1994, p.12.

  69. "Beijing's grim record of nuclear sin," The Age, 2 April 1994, p.12.

  70. "A Sino-Indian economic race?" ISEAS Trends, No. 45, 28-29 May 1994, p.1. Translated into Mandarin and reproduced in the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry's journal, Hua Shang (Economic Quarterly), July-September 1994.

  71. "Surviving the death of a dynasty," The Australian, 23 May 1991, p.11. [With Sandy Gordon]

  72. “Hands across the Himalayas,” Pacific Defence Reporter [AUST], March 1989, pp.43-44.

  73. “The China border: tension reduced but settlement distant,” Pacific Defence Reporter, July 1988, pp.28-30.

  74. "Sino-Indian talks: both refuse to budge," The Week [INDIA], February 1983.

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