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Brahma Chellaney

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Bangladesh’s descent into Islamist violence

16.12.2024 30

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

Bangladesh’s Descent into Islamist Violence

NEW DELHI – In August, popular protests – and a harsh government crackdown – culminated in the military-backed ouster of Bangladeshi Prime...

05.12.2024 30

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

America must stand up to Asia’s bully

17.11.2024 30

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

America Must Stand Up to Asia's Bully

MANILA – For over a decade, China has been using an increasingly aggressive hybrid-warfare strategy to increase its power and influence in the...

13.11.2024 50

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

World's most densely populated nation at risk of slide into jihadist chaos

30.10.2024 70

Nikkei Asian Review

Brahma Chellaney

The rise of BRICS and the emerging multipolar world

20.10.2024 40

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

The BRICS Effect

NEW DELHI – A new age of international relations is dawning. With the West accounting for a declining share of global GDP, and the world becoming...

18.10.2024 50

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

Hype cannot obscure the Quad's existential crisis

20.09.2024 30

Nikkei Asian Review

Brahma Chellaney

The Western world's stealthy assault on democracy

With great-power rivalries again at the center of international relations, democratic governments have been relying on secret statecraft to shape or...

06.09.2024 70

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

The West’s Stealthy Assault on Democracy

NEW DELHI – With great-power rivalries again at the center of international relations, democratic governments have been relying on secret statecraft...

03.09.2024 40

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

Will Bangladesh go the way of Pakistan?

The recent violent upheaval that led to a military-backed regime change in Bangladesh, followed by the country’s pleas for $6.5 billion in...

29.08.2024 70

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

South Asia’s deepening political turmoil

Violent student-led, Islamist-backed protests in Bangladesh have toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government and mob attacks targeting those...

20.08.2024 50

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

South Asia’s Deepening Political Turmoil

NEW DELHI – Violent student-led, Islamist-backed protests in Bangladesh have toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government, and mob attacks...

12.08.2024 100

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

Trump shooting shows hyperpartisanship putting democracy in crisis

19.07.2024 50

Nikkei Asian Review

Brahma Chellaney

The China factor in Modi’s mission to Moscow

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first visit to Russia in five years underscores the strategic importance India attaches to its relationship...

09.07.2024 40

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

The China Factor in Modi’s Mission to Moscow

NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first visit to Russia in five years underscores the strategic importance India attaches to its...

08.07.2024 40

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

India is losing interest in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

29.06.2024 30

Nikkei Asian Review

Brahma Chellaney

China must not choose the next Dalai Lama

As the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, visits the United States to receive medical treatment on his knees, concerns over who will succeed...

24.06.2024 50

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

China Must Not Choose the Next Dalai Lama

NEW DELHI – As the Dalai Lama – the spiritual leader of Tibet – visits the United States to receive medical treatment on his knees, concerns...

21.06.2024 70

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

A resurgent India to play a bigger role on the world stage

No sooner had India’s election results confirmed a third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the head of a multiparty coalition than U.S....

07.06.2024 90

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

Is 'the Quad' becoming a Potemkin alliance?

When four of the Indo-Pacific’s leading democracies — Australia, India, Japan and the United States — revived the long-dormant "Quad" in 2017,...

05.06.2024 50

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

Growing China-Russia alignment signifies Biden policy failure

31.05.2024 70

Nikkei Asian Review

Brahma Chellaney

Is the Quad Becoming a Potemkin Alliance?

NEW DELHI – When four of the Indo-Pacific’s leading democracies – Australia, India, Japan, and the United States – revived the long-dormant...

22.05.2024 90

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

The West is hastening its own decline

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, the West has desperately sought ways to punish Russia without...

07.05.2024 100

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

Biden's focus on Ukraine risks Indo-Pacific security

U.S. President Joe Biden has steadily deepened America’s involvement in what is now a war of attrition with Russia in Ukraine. The U.S....

28.04.2024 70

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

Japan should be worrying about Taiwan, not Ukraine

27.04.2024 70

Nikkei Asian Review

Brahma Chellaney

The West Is Hastening Its Own Decline

MUNICH – Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, the West has desperately sought ways to punish Russia...

24.04.2024 80

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

China's Indian land grab has become a strategic disaster

Xi Jinping faces dilemma in resolving crisis without losing face

22.03.2024 50

Nikkei Asian Review

Brahma Chellaney

The South China Sea could boil over

For over a decade now, China has been working stealthily to alter the territorial and maritime status quo in the Indo-Pacific — an effort that has...

21.03.2024 10

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

The South China Sea Could Boil Over

HANOI – For over a decade now, China has been working stealthily to alter the territorial and maritime status quo in the Indo-Pacific – an effort...

20.03.2024 20

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

A Taiwan crisis is coming

The more United States President Joe Biden’s administration has sought to ease tensions with China through high-level dialogue, the more brazenly...

25.02.2024 20

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

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

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

21.02.2024 10

Nikkei Asian Review

Brahma Chellaney

The Coming Taiwan Crisis

NEW DELHI – The more US President Joe Biden’s administration has sought to ease tensions with China through high-level dialogue, the more brazenly...

07.02.2024 10

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

Weeks into 2024 and the world seems on edge

Israel’s devastating war in Gaza, Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine, America’s extraterritorial assassinations and China’s aggressive...

19.01.2024 30

The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

South Asia is still struggling to deliver on promise of democracy

Elections alone are not equating to grassroots empowerment

19.01.2024 70

Nikkei Asian Review

Brahma Chellaney

A World on Edge in 2024

NEW DELHI – Israel’s devastating war in Gaza, Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine, America’s extraterritorial assassinations, and China’s...

16.01.2024 40

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

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

22.12.2023 70

Nikkei Asian Review

Brahma Chellaney

Biden’s Flawed Myanmar Policy

NEW DELHI – As the Israel-Hamas war rages, the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza is grabbing headlines – as well it should. But another armed...

18.12.2023 20

Project Syndicate

Brahma Chellaney

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