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    Book review by Raj Shekhar Mehta Title – “ Belt and Road   - A Chinese World Order” Author - Bruno Macaes, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, USA and Renmin Institute, China, Formal     Portugal Europe Minister, Commentator, BBC, CNN ,Al jazeera Place – United Kingdom / India Publisher – Penguin Random House India Pvt Lt Publication Date – 2018 UK / 2019 India Edition – First Pages – 227 Price – Rs 599/- ISBN -9780670092307 Book Review by – R S Mehta       Belt and Road is a fascinating account of China’s unprecedented economic growth bursting its seams. Having crossed its boundaries, it is poised to spill over the entire globe. In its brief existence of six years, Belt and Road, has metamorphosed from   Silk Road to OBOR to BRI. However, one thing that remained constant in all its avatars is its propensity to cause controversy. Having first ignored the...
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Indo-Pacific Geopolitics and US-India relations | Talk | Ashley J. Tellis

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  Indian Foreign Policy Predicaments & Sea-Power Security challenges facing India today are unprecedented. The act of China occupying strategic pockets of Indian territories in Ladakh in midst of pandemic in full glare of the international community, is by far the toughest test nationalist Govt of India is subjected to. However, aggression is not the only issue that is bothering India. Signs of alienation and shifting loyalties emanating from its immediate neighbours and friends like Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar are also sending ominous signal hard to ignore.    As the Juggernaut of Chinese BRI rumbles down the shores of south Asia from all direction with CPEC and Gwadar in Pakistan, Chahbahar in Iran, Tibet-Kathmandu railway in Nepal, lucrative contracts for bridges, roads, rail and ports in Bangladesh, CMEC in Myanmar, Hambantota in Sri Lank with a determined persistence, the possibility of India continuing as a moot bystander has ...
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