Month: December 2022
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The Multi Domain Threat Beyond Yangtse by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Also Published in The Financial Express @ https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/the-multi-domain-threat-beyond-yangtse/2930533/ War is politics with blood shed Politics is war without blood shed ……Mao The Yangtse incident, when examined, against the back drop of the politico military objectives of China, Xi Jinping’s persona, decline of China and relative rise of India indicates that India needs to be prepared for the next…
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Civil Military Fusion : Talk in CLAWS Seminar
On 27 December 22, I gave a talk at the CLAWS seminar on Civil Military Fusion. The Chinese and US models of civil military fusion were compared and examined to derive a model suitable in the Indian context. Other articles and talks on this subject are :-
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A Discussion on China on Jaipur Dialogues
Mr Sanjay Dixit and I had a wide ranging discussion on China. We started with the widespread Covid prevalent in China and went on to Sino Indian issues. interesting discussion. Contrary to the popular conception, a long drawn conflict with India could be detrimental to China if the battle is taken into Tibet. That is…
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Pakistan’s 2022: A year of constitutional crises, the B word and redefining neutrality
This is an excerpt from the PRISM in Dawn @ https://www.dawn.com/news/1727864/2022-a-year-of-constitutional-crises-the-b-word-and-redefining-neutrality. It encpsulates Pakistan in manner as nothing else can…straight from the horses mouth. To me the most important take away is that even in a country like Pakistan, the media is open or bold or both to take on the establishment – military and…
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A Discussion on China’s Covid Waves
Aadi and I had a discussion on the Covid wave sweeping China and the implications over the long term. The Q&A session was great.
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A Peek Into Everyday China : Living With The Virus, Abandoned By The Government
This cartoon from SCMP says it all….However, The headlines and pictures from the past one week say more… This Peek is a sequel to the one @ https://gunnersshot.com/2022/12/18/a-peek-into-everyday-china-victory-into-defeat/ The joke in Chinese media is :- Three men who don’t know one another sit in a prison cell. Each explains why he was arrested:“I opposed Covid…
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Looking Beyond Yangtse
Also Publihsed in The Financial Express @ https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/looking-beyond-yangtse/2927052/ General The recent attempt by PLA to dislodge the Indian piquet at Yangtse is without doubt a plan conceived at the highest level in China. Why did Xi Jinping attempt this? There are many reasons which I have put forth in many of my articles. A successful…
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A Discussion on India’s Rise
Aadi and I had a very interesting discussion on India’s rise as a power in its own right and the inevitability of this happening. India and Indians have to be confident about this rise. This discussion is based on two of my articles @ Geoeconomics of India’s Rise @ https://gunnersshot.com/2022/12/21/the-geoeconomics-of-indias-rise-by-lt-gen-p-r-shankar-r/ and India : The Emerging…
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An Interview With Rediff.Com on Yangtse Faceoff
‘India is China’s prime military target’ By ARCHANA MASIH December 22, 2022 09:54 IST Published @ https://m.rediff.com/news/interview/india-is-chinas-prime-military-target/20221222.htm ‘On the LAC, China can undertake military action at any place with much fewer resources. It can do ‘salami slicing’.’ “If China enters Taiwan, there’s a chance it might get entangled with the USA, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea,…