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Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
May 99 min read
The Emperor's New Ministers
The Emperor’s New Ministers Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla President Xi Jinping continues to face trouble with the military establishment...
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Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Sep 1, 202321 min read
The Escalating Clash Over India Between President Xi and the PLA
The Escalating Confrontation Over India Between President Xi and the PLA Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The Galwan clash of June 2020 gutted...
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Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Apr 25, 20239 min read
"Changes Not Seen for a Hundred Years" - Xi to Putin
Xi Jinping’s Visit to Moscow, 2023 Xi: Changes are coming, which haven’t happened in a hundred years – and we are driving them together.”...
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Mar 5, 202321 min read
QUAD AND THE INDO-PACIFIC
Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla The People’s Republic acts; the rest issue statements Quad member-states' ships at Exercise Malabar,...
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Mar 5, 202329 min read
The Russia-Ukraine War 2022 -
Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla In upholding the centrality of the Black Sea in Russian strategic thinking, did Putin do too much too soon?...
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Mar 5, 202323 min read
Taiwan Unfettered: Time for Hard Decisions
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Implications for India, the Indo-Pacific, and the UN system in the history of the Republic of China L to R:...
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Mar 5, 202311 min read
The First Quad Summit - 2021
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla “The fact of the matter is, we can do all we need to do without punishing anybody, anybody…China is going to...
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Jan 29, 202328 min read
Mackinder, Eurasia and the PRC's One-Belt-One-Road
Mackinder for the Twenty-first Century Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland ...
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Jan 29, 202325 min read
India in the Fraught Relationship Between President Xi and the PLA
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Xi Jinping seeks an accommodation with India; the PLA is implacably hostile It was December 2012: Xi Jinping...
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Jan 29, 202311 min read
Prepping for the Obama Visit
Indo-US Relations: Need for the Right Setting Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla The upcoming visit of President Obama as Guest of Honour for...
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Jan 1, 202315 min read
The China-Pakistan Nexus
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The China-Pakistan relationship goes back to the early 1960’s - 1963 saw the boundary agreement, and served...
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Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Dec 30, 20229 min read
Afghanistan After Omar's Death
Omar [L] and Mansour [R] – Omar’s death in 2013 was hidden for two years; Mansour was chosen as his successor. A good starting point for...
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Dec 29, 202233 min read
Understanding the Chinese One-Belt-One-Road
Mackinder Redux: Struggle for Eurasia after the Cold War Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla Berlin-Bagdad, Berlin-Herat, Berlin-Pekin -- not...
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Dec 29, 202217 min read
Prime Minister Modi in China - 2015
Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Prime Minister Modi [R] with President Xi Jinping [L] A clear-eyed assessment of the Prime Minister’s visit...
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Dec 29, 202210 min read
The Obama Visit - Don't quote Gandhi to Us
Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla The hype over the nuclear deal has obscured the main achievement of the Obama visit: this is in the Joint...
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Dec 13, 202215 min read
India in the Asia-Pacific under New Management
Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla Developing ties with Japan, China, and Australia It has been a busy September for India’s external...
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prabhatpshukla
Dec 13, 20229 min read
Indian General Elections 2014: Piercing the Veil of Secularism
Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla A Novice Looks at the BJP’s win at the recent General Elections The period 1987 – 89 was a watershed one in...
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prabhatpshukla
Dec 13, 20227 min read
My Days in Singapore – Looking East and Loving It
Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla contribution to collection of reminiscences by former Heads of Mission in Singapore published by the...
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Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Aug 11, 202221 min read
QUAD AND THE INDO-PACIFIC
The People’s Republic acts; the rest issue statements In order to rectify the above state of affairs, it is becoming imperative for the...
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Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla
Jul 3, 20227 min read
Recent Political Developments in China
Growing signs of ideological hardening Back in the days of the Soviet Union, readers of a nationalist newspaper, Sovetskaya Rossiya...
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