• Defanging the Dragon: India’s Real Antidote to China’s Indian Ocean Strategy

    This report provides a strategic analysis of India’s options for neutralizing geopolitical and non-traditional security threats within the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The primary threat stems from the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) ‘String of Pearls’ strategy, a network of dual-use (commercial and military) ports designed to encircle India, secure Chinese Sea Lines of Communication…

  • Inside China’s Human Rights Abuses: The Relentless Campaign Against Uyghur Muslims

    China’s campaign in Xinjiang is not an episode of excess or an aberration from state policy; it is a vast, meticulously constructed system designed to reengineer a people. Since 2017, under the banner of counterterrorism and “stability,” Beijing has deployed mass detention, technological surveillance, and cultural erasure against millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other predominantly…

  • Ports and Permissive Space: Can Gwadar’s Growth Be Exploited by Traffickers?

    Gwadar port’s fast-growing infrastructure of new berths, enlarged container yards, vast free-trade zones, and private logistics centres poses an imperative challenge of governance to the Indian Ocean region’s maritime security architecture. However, beneath this veneer of legitimate development, a disquieting vulnerability exists: the emergence of handling capacity, customs exemptions, and private warehousing has created de…

  • China’s Nuclear Programme: How Xinjiang Paid the Price for Beijing’s Nuclear Prestige

    Nearly five decades of testing — 22 atmospheric, 22 underground — left Xinjiang scarred: power through the bomb, costs for the people In October 1964, the barren plains of Lop Nur in Xinjiang trembled. A flash lit the desert, a mushroom cloud rose, and the People’s Republic of China entered the nuclear age. For Beijing,…

  • Tibet’s Culture Under Siege: India’s Pluralism as a Counterpoint

    China’s forced assimilation policies in Tibet have entered a new and darker phase. As Beijing closes Tibetan schools and pushes over a million Tibetan children into assimilationist boarding institutions, cultural extinction is no longer a by-product of state policy—it is the policy itself. By contrast, in India’s Himalayan frontier, the Army demonstrates a different model:…

  • Pattern of Stonewalling: From Xinjiang Camps to Hong Kong Courts

    In October 2022, the chamber of the UN Human Rights Council erupted in applause. The occasion was not a human rights breakthrough but the defeat—by a single vote—of a motion to merely debate the UN’s own findings that China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang. For Uyghur families waiting for justice, the applause…

  • Turkey-Pakistan-China: Power Play at Sea with Somalia as Bait

    Somalia’s coastline is fast becoming the hinge on which bigger powers test ideas about influence in the western Indian Ocean. Taken together—Turkey’s entrenched training presence and new maritime guarantees, Pakistan’s fresh military-training pact, and China’s money and hard facilities next door—the pattern looks less like Somali empowerment and more like a trilateral gravity well pulling…

  • China’s Assimilation Drive in Tibet Targets Children—and a Culture

    Beijing calls it “bilingual education” and “national unity.” UN experts call it something else: a mass, mandatory programme that separates Tibetan children from their families and dilutes their language, faith, and identity. The scale is staggering. UN Special Rapporteurs estimate that nearly one million Tibetan children—about three in four between the ages of six and…

  • How Does China’s Salami-Slicing Tactics Deepen Instability?

    China’s relentless pursuit of territorial expansion through “salami slicing” represents one of the most insidious threats to stability in Asia today. This method of gradual encroachment—taking small slices of territory that individually seem trivial but collectively amount to sweeping gains—has become a defining feature of Beijing’s strategy against its neighbours. The term was first used…

  • Beyond the G7: How BRICS is Redrawing the Global Economic Map

    Richard Wolff, a prominent US-based Marxist economist, argues that the American empire is in decline, a process he attributes to the rise of a new global power bloc led by BRICS. In his view, this shift in economic and geopolitical power is the single most significant reality the world faces today. Wolff’s analysis posits that…