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Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney, a longstanding contributor to The Japan Times, is a geostrategist and the author of "Asian Juggernaut" (Harper, 2010) and "Water: Asia’s New Battlefield" (Georgetown University Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Bernard Schwartz Award. He is professor of strategic studies at the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi.
For Brahma Chellaney's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2018
Time to make water-smart energy choices
The energy sector's depletion of water resources is another major contributor to climate change.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2018
Why the South China Sea is critical to security
To thwart China's further designs in the South China Sea and its attempts to change the maritime status quo in the Indian Ocean and the East China Sea, a constellation of democratic states linked by interlocking strategic cooperation is needed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 12, 2018
A new order for the Indo-Pacific region
China's strategic advantages in the Indo-Pacific region could become entrenched if other powers do not step in to counter further challenges to the territorial and maritime status quo.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2018
India's choice in the Maldives
The crisis in Maldives is a defining moment for New Delhi as China encroaches on its traditional sphere of influence.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 21, 2017
China's creditor imperialism
Just as European imperial powers employed gunboat diplomacy, China is using sovereign debt to bend other states to its will.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2017
Rohingya militancy poses a regional threat
External forces fomenting jihadist attacks in Rakhine state bear considerable responsibility for the current plight of the Rohingya.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2017
Abe propels a potential constellation of democracies
Japan, the U.S., India and Australia should lead the effort to ensure liberalism prevails over illiberalism in the Indo-Pacific.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 6, 2017
Asia-Pacific democracies' new entente
By pursuing cooperation, the Indo-Pacific's democratic powers can thwart China's effort to establish itself as the hegemon of an illiberal regional order.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2017
Xi's new strength obscures China's internal risks
Xi Jinping's new strength and power helps obscure China's internal risks, including the fundamental challenge of how to avoid a political hard landing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2017
A new front opens in Asia's water war
In a water-stressed Asia, taming China's hegemonic ambition is now the biggest strategic challenge.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2017
Myanmar's decades-old jihadi curse
It is vital to address the long history of Islamist extremism that has contributed to the Rohingya's' current plight.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2017
China's troublesome civil-military relations
President Xi Jinping is still struggling to assert full civil control over China's politically ascendant military.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2017
The risks of a Himalayan war are rising
Only an India fully prepared to counter and defeat aggression can deter China from initiating a military conflict on the Sino-Indian border.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2017
Calling the Chinese bully's bluff in the Himalayas
The more power China has accumulated, the more it has attempted to achieve its foreign policy objectives with bluff, bluster and bullying.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2017
China's weaponization of trade
China is exploiting states' economic reliance on it to compel their support for its foreign policy objectives.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 24, 2017
What China's Himalayan warmongering reveals
The Sino-Indian crisis has underscored the centrality of propaganda in China's foreign policy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 4, 2017
Asia's colossus threatens a tiny state
By waging stealth wars to accomplish political and military objectives, China is turning into a principle source of strategic instability in Asia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 19, 2017
Countering China's high-altitude land grab
To counter Chinese expansionism, India needs a new containment strategy, one by which the country bares its teeth.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2017
The age of blowback terror
Western powers should resist the temptation to intervene and instead work systematically to discredit the ideology of Islamist extremism.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2017
Vladimir Putin's geopolitical chessboard
For Putin, the sanctions represent war by other means and a justification for him to make his next moves to countervail American power.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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