ICS Analysis

The BRICS countries established a new Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) at their sixth summit at Fortaleza, Brazil on 15 July 2014.

For a long time the central as well as regional leadership took rapid economic development as a panacea to resolve violent separatism in the region.

Both China and India have been stalling or delaying each other’s accession to various regional institutions and multilateral bodies and the strategic distrust clearly reflects in their approach towards their view each other’s membership to these forums.

The Northeast Asian strategic order is undergoing a critical phase. The long held US– Japan–South Korea (ROK) security alliance is challenged by strained ROK–Japan relations and growing ROK–China relations vis-à-vis competition between US and China for in

According to a Xinhua report on 2 March, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security claimed that the attack was perpetrated by a Uyghur separatist group from Xinjiang and Abdurehim Kurban was identified as the leader of the group

India and the Republic of Korea (henceforth Korea) officially announced a bilateral strategic partnership in 2010.

The emerging trends in Chinese investments in Bangladesh need to be analysed in the context of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) as a whole.

The elections in Nepal on 10 April 2008 that had led to the setting up of the Constituent Assembly, had mandated that a new constitution be drafted within two years.

Even as the debate on whether India and Japan are on the cusp of entering into a substantial strategic partnership goes on, the long wait appears to be over - almost - insofar as Indo-Japanese economic relations are concerned.

On 16 April, the Information Office of the State Council of People’s Republic of China released the 2013 Defense White Paper (WP) – the eighth since 1998, when it started publishing bi-annual reports.

Dissent and opposition on the Tibetan plateau has surfaced prominently from time to time since the late 1950s – but has taken a serious turn in the form of the ‘self-immolations’ since 2009.

The recent economic slowdown in China has evoked mixed reactions. Those who see China’s rise as a threat to the current order are relieved.