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Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of nine books, including "Water, Peace, and War" (Rowman & Littlefield).

Japan should be worrying about Taiwan, not Ukraine

Given growing threat from China, defense systems needed urgently at home

China's Indian land grab has become a strategic disaster

Xi Jinping faces dilemma in resolving crisis without losing face

Biden's neglect of the Quad carries Indo-Pacific risks

Summitry seems suspended amid U.S. effort to ease tensions with China

South Asia is still struggling to deliver on promise of democracy

Elections alone are not equating to grassroots empowerment

Kissinger's corrosive legacy still weighs on U.S. policy in Asia

Strategy of aiding China's rise has come back to bite Washington and its allies

Bhutan is not giving in to China's hardball diplomacy

Beijing uses talks to deflect attention from territorial encroachments

If Biden can befriend Vietnam, he can work with Myanmar

Pragmatic approach will better serve U.S. strategic interests than sanctions

The wartime legacies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki haunt humanity

Atomic bombings were more about demonstrating power than securing surrender

China can't just keep building the world's biggest dam in secret

Brahmaputra project poses risks for India and Bangladesh

Uneven U.S. treatment of Bangladesh and Pakistan makes little sense

Sanctions against Dhaka officials unlikely to help cause of democracy

Canceled Quad summit shows how Biden is not focused on Asia

President is third straight U.S. leader unable to reorder Washington's priorities

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India now has to face strategic consequence of Myanmar's isolation

Signs suggest China has leveraged influence to put spy station on remote island

Japan and India must draw closer to check Chinese expansionism

Relationship central to Indo-Pacific region's power equilibrium and stability

Russian war sanctions show why U.S. must rethink its strategies

Trade penalties have tended to benefit China, Washington's top rival

Modi's silence on China's land grabs will not be India's last word

While downplaying territorial losses, New Delhi is modernizing its military

Xi Jinping is taking advantage of Biden's soft touch

Assurances to China contrast with call for Russian regime change

China's expansionism creeps along as West distracted by Ukraine

India retreats further into own territory with Himalayan buffer-zone pullbacks

The Quad is at risk of losing its strategic focus

Biden is saddling the group with a distracting global agenda

India has a stake in Taiwan's defense

Chinese territorial claims in Himalayas are much bigger than the island

Ukraine war hastens Sri Lanka's economic meltdown

Impact of Russian sanctions likely to be felt by a string of poorer nations

India's front line battle against autocracy more important than ever

The risk of renewed skirmishes with China is growing

India should invite Myanmar's foreign minister to ASEAN meet

Giving Naypyitaw the cold shoulder is not in New Delhi's interests

Biden's empty Taiwan rhetoric reveals Quad's core weakness

Group will have to move fast if it is to maintain status quo in the Indo-Pacific

European scramble for energy comes at Asia's expense

EU moves to wean itself off Russian oil and gas is creating a self-defeating trap

Washington's clumsy attempts to bully India must stop

Undermining its relationship with New Delhi will cost the U.S. dearly