A statement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday pointedly called on the ‘international community’ to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. It commended Pakistan’s contribution to the war against terrorism and stressed that the Afghan...
Melkulangara Bhadrakumar
US Asia ‘Rebalance’ Threatened With Meltdown
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
Elections in the Philippines can be very funny. The candidates often try to connect with their electorate by taking recourse to singing and dancing. Cutting bawdy jokes and making funny faces or dressing outrageously comes very readily to politicians in their...
Turkey’s Erdogan Gives Europe the Middle Finger
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
The impact of Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s move Wednesday to replace Prime Minister Ahmet Dautoglu is already being felt in the western chancelleries with the signs that the scenario now is one of an acrimonious divorce between Ankara and the European Union. The...
Aleppo – Syria’s Stalingrad?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | May 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
In a message on Thursday addressed to Vladimir Putin felicitating Russia on its Victory Day, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad compared the fighting around the city of Aleppo to Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II. It’s a powerful metaphor for the Russian...
US-Saudi Relations: Yesteryear Days are Gone Forever
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
President Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday has boomeranged. His good intentions were never in doubt – mend fences between the two countries. But what emerges is that it will need much more than one visit – maybe, even one full presidency cannot...
In India, Defense Secretary Carter to Push Anti-China Alliance
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has outlined in some detail the purpose of his mission to India next week. Principally he hopes to discuss arms deals and explore the parameters of co-production of weapons feasible under American laws prohibiting technology...
US Plotting Color Revolt in Russia?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
The annual meeting of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which is the successor organization to the Soviet-era KGB is an important occasion to take the temperature in the ‘East-West’ relations. (The Cold War cliche is becoming useful once again.) President...
The New Bipolar World Has Arrived
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
The United States, the lone superpower, has presented two draft resolutions to the UN Security Council on the North Korea problem and Syrian conflict respectively (here and here) – based on the understanding it reached through two water-tight bilateral consultative...
Turkey Flexes Muscle in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Turkish army has continued for the second day the shelling of the positions of the Syrian Kurdish militia across the border, demanding that the latter withdraw from the territories they’ve gained lately in the northern Aleppo province, especially the strategic...
Syrian War Ends West’s Dominance of Middle East
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
Three weeks and five days into the Russian military operations in Syria, Moscow has achieved the objective of compelling the major external players involved to rethink their established stance on the crisis. Unsurprisingly, new fault lines have appeared in Middle East...
Turkey’s ‘Bear Trap’ Option in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
The two incidents involving Turkey and the Russian aircraft operating in northern Syria on successive days in the weekend throw into bold relief the single most crucial template of the Syrian conflict in the coming months. Turkey happens to be the only regional power...
Russia Exposes US Hidden Agenda in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Syrian refugee problem was maturing slowly steadily and would have provided the perfect pretext for a US-led ‘humanitarian intervention’ in that country. But Russia is there first and the best-laid American plan may have gone awry. The US Middle East policies have...
Obama Inherits Saudi Arabia’s Yemeni War
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
The US-backed Saudi military intervention in Yemen is entering a dangerous phase. Clearly, the Saudi air attacks, guided by US intelligence and logistics support, have not had any worthwhile impact so far on the Houthi campaign to seize control of southern Yemeni port...
US/Afghan Pact: Permanent Occupation
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
Writing on the subject of “foreign troops” a few months ago, the well known Guardian columnist and editor Seumas Milne observed, “It’s almost never discussed in the political mainstream. But thousands of foreign troops have now been stationed in Britain for more than...
Afghanistan Faces Uncertain Future
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
Afghanistan has witnessed two major events in the most recent weeks. One is the assumption of office by Ashraf Ghani as the next president of the country, succeeding Hamid Karzai. The second has been the signing of the two “back-to-back” security pacts between...
US Slouches Toward Syria, Again…
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
The Americans have a habit of first naming their imminent war before the troops march out and it will be interesting to see how this one is going to be christened. There seems some ambiguity about the war ahead in Iraq and Syria – what it is really going to be as it...
Obama’s Skewed Policy Priorities in Middle East
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US State Department has maintained that continuity rather than change in the American policy is what should be expected in the aftermath of the killing of photojournalist James Foley by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria early this week. The State Department’s...
Saudi Anger Has Many Faces
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Dec 27, 2013 | Featured Articles
During the past fortnight, Saudi Arabia raised the bar by several notches in its rhetoric to express fury over US regional policies in the Middle East, especially over Syria and Iran. The rhetoric reached a high pitch last week with two key figures in the Saudi regime...
The Iran Question – What Next?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 16, 2013 | Featured Articles
It is only natural if there is a sense of deja vu over the inconclusive end to the P5+1 and Iran talks in Geneva over the weekend – and of course its photo finish dripping with high drama. The United States-Iran standoff has edged tantalizingly close to resolution...
Obama Sidesteps Detractors to Engage Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 18, 2013 | Featured Articles
Below the radar, the tortuous process leading to an Iran nuclear deal may have got under way in Geneva where the two-day talks between the protagonists – P5+1 and Iran – ended on a positive note on Wednesday. The joint statement issued after the talks was a “first” of...
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