Commentary / World Feb 10, 2021
Don’t isolate Myanmar
Crippling U.S.-led sanctions from the late 1980s paved the way for China to become Myanmar’s dominant trading partner and investor.
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.
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Commentary / World Feb 1, 2021
On China, Biden should be like Trump
The contrast with President Donald Trump’s divisive, isolationist rhetoric could not be sharper. But adopting a different tone is easier than reversing America’s relative decline.
Commentary / World Jan 27, 2021
Free vaccines and India’s humanitarian diplomacy
India is leveraging its manufacturing heft by embarking on humanitarian diplomacy — the supply of free vaccines to countries in its extended neighborhood.
Commentary / World | Beyond COVID-19 Dec 28, 2020
Xi Jinping’s strategic overreach in the Himalayas
China’s ability to pursue its geopolitical ambitions is diminishing rapidly. Nowhere is this more apparent than in its relations with India.
Commentary / World Dec 27, 2020
Hydro-hegemony: Will China turn off Asia’s tap?
As long as the Communist Party of China remains in power, the country will most likely continue to wage stealthy water wars that no one can win.
Commentary / World Dec 10, 2020
Biden lacks strategic clarity on China
Aiding China’s rise was the greatest mistake of U.S. foreign policy in the post-World War II period. The U.S. actively contributed to the rise of its most formidable competitor
Commentary / World Dec 2, 2020
The message of Islamist beheadings
Jihadis represent a tiny minority of the world’s Muslims. But, by making clear their willingness to behave inhumanely, they have ensured that few dare defy them.
Commentary / Japan Sep 30, 2020
Tokyo must thwart Beijing's Senkaku strategy
Japan undoubtedly faces hard choices. But accommodation with an unyielding China is simply not possible.
Commentary / World Sep 25, 2020
China is paying a high price for provoking India
Aggression and expansionism obviously are not genetic traits, but they appear to be defining Chinese President Xi Jinping’s tenure.
Commentary / World Sep 1, 2020
China alone: Will the prospect of isolation thwarts Beijing's imperialist ambitions?
In his most recent New Year’s speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that 2020 would be “a milestone.” Xi was right, but not in the way he expected. Far from having “friends in every corner of the world,” as he boasted in his speech, ...