US trade, legislative and propaganda war rage against China.
Will it turn hot after hawkish interventionists infesting the Biden/Harris regime’s national security team take over in January?
Is what’s unthinkable possible? What’s gone on since the Obama/Biden regime’s 2013 Asia pivot,...
News reports have quoted the Chinese Embassy in Colombo about Sri Lanka participating in a China-hosted five-Nation multilateral virtual meet on COVID-19 management and post COVID-19 economic revival. It was the second such consultation among the ‘partners’ in...
Originally published in Colombo Gazette 2 November 2020
Leave aside the unilateral US rebuke of the UNHRC for voting in ‘authoritarian States’ into the 47-member Council, elected on rotation of sorts for two-year terms, in the case of Sri Lanka, the...
Given the trajectory of the China relations — Sri Lanka’s ‘India First’ policy will obviously be confined to bilateral security issues and New Delhi’s concerns in the matter.
The short-notice Colombo visit of a high-level Chinese delegation, to be followed...
Ambassador KP Fabian speaks on India-China confrontation For the podcast link
My childhood memories of a broken Buddha sculpture spawned a bewildering array of questions—long before I came to know about the greatness of the apostle of Ahimsa. We were told that the sculpture, made of...
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Unfettered Chinese support for Saudi Arabia’s so far peaceful nuclear energy program risks fueling a burgeoning Middle East arms race amid concerns that the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement is all but dead, Turkey suggesting it...
The Indian analysts have been comparing the military build-up in the India-China border in eastern Ladakh to the Doklam standoff in 2017. This was only to be expected since the leitmotif was once again a road construction in disputed...
The Galwan valley encounter between India and China, which took an unanticipated but a significant number of casualties on both sides, is certainly a major setback for India’s good neighbour policy and its national security architecture. The sudden reversal...
Reckless US hostility toward China risks eventual confrontation between both countries.
Majority bipartisan hardliners already severely damaged bilateral relations.
Unacceptable US policies toward Beijing reflect what the scourge of imperialism is all about.
What’s short of hot war could cross that rubicon...
