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    Joe Biden's flawed policy on Myanmar

    Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 23/12/2023

    » As the Israel-Hamas war rages, the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza is grabbing headlines -- as well it should. But another armed conflict, in Myanmar, is also causing mass suffering, with more than 2 million people internally displaced and over a million more streaming into neighbouring Bangladesh, India and Thailand. And it is attracting far less international attention.

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    The conflicts of the new world order

    Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 14/11/2023

    » The crises, conflicts and wars that are currently raging highlight just how profoundly the geopolitical landscape has changed in recent years, as great-power rivalries have again become central to international relations. With the wars in Gaza and Ukraine exacerbating global divisions, an even more profound geopolitical reconfiguration -- including a shift to a new world order -- may well be in the works.

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    The roots of the India-Canada diplomatic spat

    Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 07/10/2023

    » Rarely have two major democracies descended into as ugly a diplomatic spat as the one now unfolding between Canada and India.

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    America's Myanmar policy is simply all wrong

    Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 15/07/2023

    » A recent joint statement by US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi "expressed deep concern about the deteriorating situation in Myanmar" and called for a constructive dialogue to aid the country's transition toward an inclusive federal democratic system. Unfortunately, the US-led sanctions policy has undercut this goal and made a bad situation worse.

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    Bedlam reigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 02/06/2023

    » Afghanistan and Pakistan are sinking deeper into disarray, and the US bears a significant share of the blame. As long as this long-troubled region remains in turmoil, Islamist terrorism will continue to thrive, with grave implications for international security.

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    Europe's Russia sanctions are a shot in the foot

    News, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 19/12/2022

    » It seems obvious that sanctions -- an increasingly important tool of Western foreign policy -- should inflict significant pain on the target without exacting unsustainably high costs from the country imposing them. But the European Union's sanctions on Russia -- intended to punish the country for its brutal war of aggression against Ukraine -- do not meet this condition.

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    Of debt and bondage with Beijing

    Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 26/11/2022

    » Recently released details of Kenya's 2014 loan agreement with China to finance a controversial railway project have once again highlighted the predatory nature of Chinese lending in developing countries. The contract not only imposed virtually all risk on the borrower (including requiring binding arbitration in China to settle any dispute), but also raised those risks to unmanageable levels (such as by setting an unusually high interest rate). With terms like that, it is no wonder some countries around the world have become ensnared in sovereignty-eroding Chinese debt traps.

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    US-India ties too important to be neglected

    Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 18/10/2022

    » The upcoming joint military exercise between the US-India known as War Practice, in a high-altitude area less than 100 kilometres from India's border with China, highlights the partnership's growing strategic importance. India holds more annual military drills with the US than any other country, as the two powers seek to improve their forces' interoperability.

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    No justification for engaging with Taliban

    Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 19/08/2022

    » In the year since the United States' disgraceful abandonment of Afghanistan to the Taliban, the country has gone down precisely the path any logical observer would have predicted: a medieval, jihadist, terrorist-sheltering emirate has been established. The US will incur costs for betraying its Afghan allies for a long time to come. But nobody will pay a higher price than Afghans.

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    The dramatic fall of the House of Rajapaksa

    News, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 14/07/2022

    » For much of nearly two decades, the four Rajapaksa brothers and their sons have run Sri Lanka like a family business -- and a disorderly one, at that. With their grand construction projects and spendthrift ways, they saddled Sri Lanka with unsustainable debts, driving the country into its worst economic crisis since independence. Now, the dynasty has fallen.

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