Asia – Lok Panchayat

The Anti-Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama has announced his succession, setting alarm bells ringing in Beijing. Read to find out why the next Dalai Lama may face his very own Chinese duplicate.

China has crushed Tibetan media, free speech: reports

China has come down hard on Tibetan journalists and social media as part of the Tibetan genocide. India gives exiled journalists hope, but is the government doing enough?

Poison people and make billions

When it comes to narcotics, America has one border problem and India has two. Stuck between the Golden Crescent of Af-Pak & Iran and the Golden Triangle of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, two of the deadliest drug-producing regions of the world. The hostile states of China and Pakistan are actively directing the drug trade against India as part of their destabilisation efforts against the largest democratic nation on earth. To turn the tide before the rot sets in, New Delhi needs to take executive action exceeding recent US presidential decrees designating drug producers and smugglers as terrorists and possibly freeing up US enforcement agencies and the US military to treat them in the same manner.

Nuclear Pakistan: The house that China built

China spoon-fed the Pakistanis blueprints and technical training leading up to Pakistan's first nuclear weapons tests, largely with an eye to putting India in a chokehold within the region. In strategic, hard-power terms, when the CCP began building up its criminal nuclear regime all those decades ago, it could not have conceived of a better outcome.

A third force in Nepal politics

The Rastriya Swatantra Party has positioned itself as a strong alternative to Nepal’s established political parties, which have long been criticized for failing to deliver on promises and addressing the needs of the people.

The new scramble for the Arctic

Russia and China have been cooperating to develop Arctic shipping routes, with Russia aiming to boost oil and gas exports to China amid Western sanctions, and China seeking an alternative route to reduce its reliance on the Strait of Malacca.

What India Can Learn from ASEAN

Asia’s future depends on equitable relations between all rising powers, and in this context the India-ASEAN partnership is key. Through a framework of mutual cooperation that can in time be enlarged to include the rest of South Asia, India and ASEAN can constitute the pivot of unity that will help counteract the destabilising effects of belligerent powers in the region.