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Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney, a longstanding contributor to The Japan Times, is a geostrategist and the author of "Asian Juggernaut" (Harper, 2010) and "Water: Asia’s New Battlefield" (Georgetown University Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Bernard Schwartz Award. He is professor of strategic studies at the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 15, 2019
Japan gets a wake-up call from Trump
The Trump administration is ready to sacrifice the security interests of America's regional allies as long as Kim does not test any capability that threatens American security.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 19, 2019
From moon walk to space wars
Guaranteeing the freedom to navigate the stars has become no less essential to global peace than safeguarding the freedom to navigate the seas.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2019
China's Tiananmen reckoning
The CCP's continued reliance on brute power to keep China's citizens in line could eventually leave it on the ash heap of history.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 24, 2019
Modi victory augurs well for Japan-India ties
Modi's landslide win will help cement Asia's fastest growing relationship.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 14, 2019
Pathways to tackling the plastic waste problem
The plastic waste scourge is seriously imperiling the world's environmental well-being, including contaminating our freshwater and food chain.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2019
Asia is now ground zero for Islamist terrorism
The region's leaders must address the problem at its source or prepare for more bloodshed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 9, 2019
Uighur crackdown highlights Xi's totalitarian ambitions
Xi Jinping's repression of Muslim minorities may not lead to international action against China. But it will almost certainly spawn a new generation of Islamist terrorists, compounding China's internal security challenges.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 5, 2019
How the terrorist threat from Pakistan can be quelled
The Pakistani military needs to be brought to heel so that Pakistan becomes a stable, prospering country in the interest of its people and the wider region.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 7, 2019
Trump's gift to the Taliban
By abandoning Afghanistan, the Trump administration is repeating one of the worst foreign policy mistakes of the past few decades.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2019
The shackles of history in a democracy
The boundary between historical fact and fiction is more porous than students of history might think.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2019
China's new age of uncertainty
China's open disregard of international rules and its penchant for bullying explain why it essentially remains a friendless power.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 13, 2019
The vital isolation of indigenous groups
Whatever the motivation, connecting with remote tribes with the rest of the world would amount to a death sentence for them.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 30, 2018
China at the crossroads
Deng's refusal to truly liberalize China has imposed enduring costs on the country, which increasingly bends reality to the illusions that it propagates.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 18, 2018
Beijing's South China Sea grab
In the last five years, China has turned its contrived historical claims to the South China Sea into reality and gained strategic depth.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2018
Treat China like the bully it is
Canada would do well to remember that deference to Beijing invites bullying, while standing up to it draws respect.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 21, 2018
Building a 'free and open' Indo-Pacific
While deference usually invites bullying, standing up to China draws respect and a readiness to negotiate and make concessions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 14, 2018
A concert of democracies in the Indo-Pacific region
The deepening relationship between Japan and India serves the goal of forestalling the emergence of a China-centric Asia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 25, 2018
The linchpins for a rules-based Indo-Pacific
the Abe-Modi summit offers an opportunity to discuss how the Tokyo-New Delhi duet can contribute to the larger U.S.-initiated effort to build strategic equilibrium, power stability and maritime security in the Indo-Pacific.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2018
The end of America's China fantasy
Over the last couple of years, the China-policy debate in the US has begun to reflect more realism, with a growing number of voices recognizing China's ambition to supplant its American benefactor as the leading global superpower. But is it too late to rein in America's main geopolitical rival?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2018
The Beijing backlash begins
Trump's trade war with China shouldn't obscure a broader push-back against the country's mercantilist practices.

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