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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 / World
Apr 29, 2020
The Chinese Health Organization?
The WHO director-general should be taken to task for his deference to China throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2020
The other contagion: Political and religious fanaticism
The only way to contain the threat from extremists during the pandemic is to discredit their insidious ideologies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 30, 2020
Once-in-a-century pandemic promises to reshape our world
The geostrategic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis will likely hold major implications for Japan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2020
A made-in-China pandemic
Only by loosening China's grip on global supply networks — beginning with the pharmaceutical sector — can the world be kept safe from the country's political pathologies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2020
The China factor behind Trump's India visit
The far-reaching shift that President Donald Trump has initiated in U.S. relations with China promises to reshape global geopolitics and trade.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2020
Saving the world's dying rivers
International cooperation can save riparian systems, but first we must recognize the consequences of doing nothing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2020
America's debilitating obsession with the Middle East
U.S. President Donald Trump is perpetuating one of the United States' most self-defeating habits.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 14, 2020
Toward an Indo-Pacific concert of democracies
If democratic powers leverage their bilateral and trilateral partnerships to generate progress toward such a concert of democracies, the vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific may be achievable in the years ahead.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 23, 2019
Laboring under the illusion of a rules-based global order
International law today is powerful against the powerless, and powerless against the powerful.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 17, 2019
RCEP without India isn't to Japan's liking
In Japan's view, India's participation in the RCEP is crucial to prevent it from becoming a China-led trade block.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 21, 2019
Asia's twin curse: Dams and droughts
A proliferation of upstream dams is beginning to impose costs across much of Asia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 14, 2019
America's feeble Indo-Pacific strategy
The United States has allowed Chinese expansionism in Asia to continue virtually unimpeded.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2019
Dispelling the myths of Kashmir
Until China and Pakistan stop trying to undermine its territorial sovereignty in Jammu and Kashmir, India will have little choice but to take steps to protect itself.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2019
Changes on the Indo-Pacific's geopolitical chessboard
Today, with the specter of Asian power disequilibrium looming, the China factor has gained greater salience in the equations between and among the major Indo-Pacific powers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 20, 2019
Damming the Mekong basin to environmental hell
As droughts become more frequent and severe, China's dam network gives it increasing leverage over downriver countries.
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.
Bloodied Trump survives assassination attempt at political rally
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is surrounded and evacuated by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Trump was rushed off stage at the rally after shots rang out.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.
Amid same-sex marriage ban, LGBTQ couples opt for 'photo weddings'
A lesbian couple, consisting of a 35-year-old woman (left) and 40-year-old woman, cover their faces with bouquets as they pose for wedding photos in Yokohama on Nov. 1.
China and Russia conduct joint Pacific military patrol
The Russian corvette Gromkiy enters the Chinese port of Zhanjiang as part of a joint China-Russia naval exercise on Saturday.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
After Trump shooting, U.S. presidential race might take a violent turn
United States Secret Service Counter Snipers stand guard on a rooftop during a campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Avoca, Pennsylvania, in 2020.
No AC this summer? No problem (for me).
Think air conditioning is a requirement for a Tokyo summer? Think again.
She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
Mai Tarumi, who previously volunteered at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has a travel budget of ¥1 million for her trip to volunteer at the Paris Games.
How to tweak your diet when temperatures spike
Most people think of hydration as a strictly liquid-based concept, but eating foods with high water content is an essential part of making it through a Japanese summer unscathed.

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