• Chinese Bunker Mentality and Indian Options

    • November 11, 2021
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Categories: China, India
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    Pentagon’s report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China is being analysed widely; mostly from an US perspective.

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  • Happiness is a Pakistani State of Mind

    • October 25, 2021
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Category: Pakistan
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    Till last month Pakistan was the kingmaker. After all it had put the Taliban in the Afghan throne.

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  • The Chinese Wobble : Part 3

    • October 18, 2021
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Category: China
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    In China, politics is supreme, above all other considerations. CCP has to remain in absolute power without any semblance of competition.

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  • Happiness in Af-Pak

    • October 18, 2021
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Category: Pakistan
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    Confession This is a fully pliagiarised narrative of Pakistan lifted from what Pakistani writers have written.

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  • A Relic of a Bygone Era Should Remain One

    • October 18, 2021
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Category: India
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    I read the article A relic of a bygone age? I might be, but I’m not a defeatist by Mr Paul Keating, ex PM of Australia.

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  • OUTLINES OF MULTI DIMENSIONAL NEO-REVISIONISM IN CHINA by

    • October 18, 2021
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Category: China
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    Revisionism has been a way of life in China for more than a century. China transited from imperialism to nationalism to Maoism to capitalism with socialist principles.

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  • The Indian Geostrategic Palate

    • October 18, 2021
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Category: India
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    The Indian geostrategic palate is a mixed bag. Our neighbourhood is in turmoil.

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  • CHINA : A FIRE-BREATHING DRAGON OR A SICK LIZARD?

    • October 18, 2021
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Category: China
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    China is bellicose and militaristic towards India and Taiwan. The hurry to usurp Taiwan is palpable.

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  • Why Imran Khan is Called Taliban Khan

    • October 18, 2021
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Category: Pakistan
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    Well the answers are there in all the cartoons drawn by Pakistanis.

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  • India’s Neighbourhood : A Discussion

    • October 18, 2021
    • Posted by: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retd)
    • Categories: India, Neighbouring countries
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    Aadi Achint and I had a discussion on India’s neighbourhood.

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