The fall of the House of Rajapaksa
The crisis in Sri Lanka is a modern political parable - the display of people’s power serves as a warning to political dynasties from Asia to Latin America writes Brahma Chellaney.
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Brahma Chellaney
Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
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The Quad at a crossroads
With Quad leaders due to meet on 24 May, Brahma Chellaney calls for the group to adopt a clearer strategic vision that includes greater economic cooperation — including increased trade among its members — and to cease underwriting the growth of Chinese strategic power.
America Is focusing on the wrong enemy
While the United States focuses on resisting Russian designs on Ukraine, China gets stronger and bolder writes Brahma Chellaney.
China's global hybrid war
China’s use of legal instruments to pursue international political and territorial objectives amounts to a game changing “bulletless aggression” in Asia, writes Brahma Chellaney. These acts of “lawfare”, he argues, call for a coordinated response from the world’s democracies.
One hundred years of devastation
Next week will see the Communist Party of China celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding with the commissioning of the Baihetan Dam on the upper stretches of the Yangtze River. Brahma Chellaney, an expert on the region's water reserves, argues the environmental devastation caused by China's large scale construction projects provide little reason to celebrate.