Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 12/15/2018 - 23:58
Paper No. 6471 . Dated 16-Dec-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Japan facing comprehensive threats from a militaristic China and its nuclear proxy North Korea has finally woken up from its Peace Constitution Article 9 slumber realising that the ‘China Threat’ to Japan’s National Security is real and embarked on review of reinforcing its deterrent capabilities both in terms of military hardware and operational doctrines.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 05:40
Paper No. 6451 . Dated 26-Oct-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Japan imperceptibly but surely is engaged in enhancing its security and military profile in a comprehensive manner which augurs well for overall Indo Pacific security and stability in what can be described as a joint but undeclared collaboration of the United States, Japan and India to provide an existential counterweight to China’s worrying military rise generating turbulence on its peripheries.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 08/11/2018 - 04:14
Paper No. 6406 Dated 10-Aug-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
China’s forcible annexation of virtually the entire maritime expanse and consequent militarisation of the South China Sea in the last decade has generated grave regional and global complications. Japan as an Asian power contender with China and the nation whose strategic and economic survival is critically dependent on the sea-lanes that traverse the South China Sea gets logically drawn into South China Sea conflictual dynamics.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 05/07/2018 - 05:40
Paper No. 6374 Dated 07-Apr-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s main thrust in 2018 of resetting China’s relations with India and Japan arises not from some heavenly divinations but stand laced with crucial geopolitically and strategically calibrated end-aims to create a breach in China’s hemming-in by US-led Indo Pacific security template
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 05:48
Paper No. 6325 Dated 05-Dec-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Indo Pacific Asia as a geopolitical conception replacing the earlier concept of Asia Pacific has evolved markedly since 2008-2009 synchronous with China’s switch from exercise of ‘Soft Power’ to ‘Hard Power’ in Chinese strategic formulations in its Asian strategies which since then singularly are characterised by aggressive military brinkmanship.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 09/12/2017 - 06:43
Paper No. 6303 Dated 12-Sept-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s visit to India on September13-14 2017 though officially as part of the Annual Summits between the Prime Ministers of Japan and India emerges as geopolitically significant against the contextual Asian security environment muddied by China itself and its nuclear proxies in East Asia and South Asia.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 11/23/2016 - 06:03
Paper No. 6199 Dated 23-Nov-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Asian security in 2016 stands dominated by the geopolitical dynamics that are at play in the complex ‘Strategic Quadrilateral’ comprising the United States, China, Japan and India.
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