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Is the World Watching As China Brutally Suppresses the Freedom of Uighurs and Tibetans?
Last March 13, China yet again blocked the proposed initiative of the United States, Britain, and France to have [&hel
Author Archives for Monika Chansoria
Dr. Monika Chansoria is a Senior Visiting Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. She is the author of five books, including her latest work, China, Japan and Senkaku Islands: Conflict in the East China Sea amid an American Shadow (Routledge © 2018). Follow her on Twitter @MonikaChansoria.
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China Is Equally Responsible for Terror Attack on India’s Paramilitary Force
Pulwama, a town in the northern-most Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, witnessed the most dastardly terror attack on
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ASEAN Centrality: Caught in the Trap of China’s Regionalism
The future of regionalism in the larger Indo-Pacific continues to be uncertain. This is because the region expects Chi
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China Invests in Africa As Grand Foundation for Its Belt-and-Road Master Plan
The China-in-Africa story is intriguing for its complex dubiety. Surging domestic growth goaded China’s rising dem
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Japan’s National Security Should Prevail over Politics in Okinawa
Denny Tamaki was pronounced as the new governor of Okinawa after a divisive campaign that remained singularly [&he
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China’s BRI, Saudi Arabia, and the Confusing Game Inside Pakistan
It took close to 22 years for Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party to finally assume the […]
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China Will Be Largest Military Spender in Asia-Pacific in 10 Years: Should We Worry?
By Monika Chansoria Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a pitch for normalizing the Sino-Japanese relationsh
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China Continues Repression in Tibet With Live-Fire Military Drills
By Monika Chansoria China’s expansionism and revisionist statecraft is a tale to tell both within the “People’s Repu
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Belt and Road Initiative Debts Reduce Pakistan to China’s Client State
Monika Chansoria A client state, owing primarily to its policies and international standing, is one that is [&he
Newly-Discovered 16 Million MTs of Rare Earth Minerals Can Make Japan Independent of China
Monika Chansoria The prospects for exploring seabed minerals have attracted the attention of […]
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Russia, China Power Games Prop Up North Korea’s Nuclear Brinkmanship
Great power games are in full swing in Northeast Asia, as exhibited by the sudden and steep increase of […]
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How Beijing’s Push for China-Centric Asia Impacts the Indo-Pacific
The latest China Security Report published by Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) in February aims