Archivos de Categoría: Asia

El coste de no saber ponerse el velo

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Republica, 04.10.2022
Inocencio F. Arias, embajador (r) y columnista español
El velo se ha erigido en el símbolo de las protestas que desde hace días sacuden Irán
La joven iraní de 22 años que resultó muerta y ha provocado un estallido en su país fue detenida por la policía de costumbres por llevar el velo de forma...
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An appalling slur on the civilisation state that is India

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Indian Punchline, 06.06.2022
M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indio
The outrage in the Muslim world over the transgression of the red line in anti-Muslim politics in India is understandable, although the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party acted swiftly for damage control. The point is, the world has taken note that anti-Muslim politics has reached a crescendo...
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Engagement With China Was Always a Long Shot

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 12.05.2022
Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Beijing’s Leninist regime is fundamentally resistant to change.

As the Cold War drew to a close, the United States and the other liberal democracies opened their doors to China in the belief that, by doing so, they would cause its system...
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Central Asia Is Keeping a Nervous Eye on Russia’s War in Ukraine

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World Politics Review, 26.04.2022
Jeffrey Mankoff, académico (Institute for National Strategic Studies-U.S. National Defense University)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is upending the geopolitical calculations of states around the world. The fallout is especially complex for the post-Soviet states of Central Asia, which maintain extensive economic, political, cultural and other ties to both Russia and Ukraine. While...
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Sri Lankan situation is fraught with danger

Columna
Indian Punchline, 15.05.2022
M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r), profesor y columnista indio
India finds itself between the rock and a hard place in its approach to the Sri Lankan crisis. There is no question that the government attributes primacy to Sri Lanka remaining a practising democracy. But the developing situation in that country is going to be...
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US plays QUAD card during Beijing Olympics

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Indian Punchline, 05.02.2022
M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indio
The appalling decision by the External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to huddle together with his QUAD colleagues bang in the middle of the Beijing Winter Olympics may have unpleasant consequences. China sees QUAD as a US-led clique working to “contain” it. An action-reaction syndrome has once again...
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-31

Columna
Indian Punchline, 02.11.2021
M.K. Bhadrakumar, embajador (r) y columnista indio
India plays Russian card
The chances were slim that the Pakistani National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf would accept the invitation from his counterpart Ajit Doval to a regional meet of security tsars in New Delhi to discus the situation in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Nonetheless, the dismissive manner in...
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-27

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Indian Punchline, 13.10.2021
M.K. Bhadrakumar, ex diplomático y columnista indio
Moscow has categorically stated that it will not accept a US military presence in the Central Asian region. This reiteration has come at the level of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov who told Tass that Afghanistan had been discussed at a meeting with Victoria Nuland,...
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Afganistán: España, Europa y Estados Unidos

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Republica, 30.08.2021
Inocencio F. Arias, embajador (r) y columnista español
La invasión de Afganistán por Estados Unidos en 2001 tenía un doble objetivo, castigar al grupo de Bin Laden como venganza por el atentado contra las Torres Gemelas y evitar que el país siguiera siendo un refugio para terroristas. Después vino la empresa , ahora fallida,...
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