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Balasubramanian Chandrasekhar

The author is a Ph.D. scholar and a Senior Research Officer at the Chennai Centre for China Studies, a think tank researching on China offering peninsular perspective. His areas of interests include Russia–China Relations, China’s Foreign Policy, Security and Strategic Studies.
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Granules & Geopolitics: Conflicts over Sand

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Sand, the most abundant of all minerals, is present around us. After air and water, it is the most consumed natural resource on earth....
Politics

India’s Solar Spectrum: One Sun, One World, One Grid

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India has the advantage of receiving peak solar radiation for 300 days due to its geographic positioning of lying in the tropical belt. The...
Economy

The Black Swan Called the Coronavirus

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The novel Coronavirus has shown that it has the potential to affect the geopolitics of the world. It not only resulted in loss of...
Indo-Pacific

Power of Siberia: Russia–China Strategic Embrace

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The year 2019 marked the 70th anniversary of diplomatic bilateral relations between Russia and China. Cementing Sino–Russian bond, “Power of Siberia” gas pipeline — a...
Economy

India–China Frictions and Potentials: An Economic Dialogue

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In the recently held Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Summit in Thailand, India decided to pull out and not to go ahead in finalizing the trade deal....
Security

From Look East to Act East: Flowering of an Asian Renaissance

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The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on an official trip to Thailand met with Prime Minister of Thailand Gen. (retd.) Prayut Chan-o-cha on the sidelines of...
Indo-Pacific

Act Far East Policy: India’s Bear Hug

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The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid an official visit to Russia in September 2019. The 20th India–Russia Annual Summit was held in Vladivostok....
Economy

Noodle Bowl Trap: ‘Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership’

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While the Wuhan Meet was about ‘stability’, the Mamallapuram Meet was to enhance stability in action ‘promoting understanding’. Trade was prominently discussed between Prime...

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The New Power Centers of Sports Diplomacy: Cities, Capital, and Code

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If power in sport now lives in city halls, boardrooms, and algorithms—not stadiums—how will the U.S. wield cities, capital, and code as it hosts the world’s biggest events over the next decade?
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Four Years On, Ukraine’s War Still Refuses to End

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Four years on, Ukraine’s war drags across 1,200 km, cities in ruins and millions displaced. Russia entrenched, Kyiv defiant, the West divided—how long can a war of attrition outlast political will before exhaustion decides the peace?
Indo-Pacific

How Timor-Leste Uses Tourism to Cement Its ASEAN Role

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After joining ASEAN in 2025, Timor-Leste is leveraging sustainable, high-value tourism to boost soft power, diversify beyond oil, and cement its regional role—positioning itself as Southeast Asia’s next authentic frontier, not its next mass market.
Americas

How Far is Cuba From a Total Collapse?

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How close is Cuba to collapse? Energy strangulation, fading allies, and Trump’s oil squeeze after Venezuela’s shift have left Havana isolated and rationing. For the first time in decades, the regime’s survival feels uncertain.
Geopolitics

The Maghreb’s New Architecture: Beyond the Myth of the Algerian Pillar

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Madrid 2026 wasn’t diplomacy—it was redesign. Washington moves past Algeria’s veto politics, backs Morocco’s autonomy plan, and seeds a Tunis-Rabat axis built on energy sovereignty, phosphates, and geo-economic integration. The Maghreb’s balance is shifting.

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