International Affairs - Indo-Pacific

Ambassador Shukla was among the very first people in the world to analyse and write about the on-going clash between President Xi and the PLA.

The Emperor’s New Ministers Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla President Xi Jinping continues to face trouble with the military establishment...

The Escalating Confrontation Over India Between President Xi and the PLA Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The Galwan clash of June 2020 gutted...

Xi Jinping’s Visit to Moscow, 2023 Xi: Changes are coming, which haven’t happened in a hundred years – and we are driving them together.”...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla The People’s Republic acts; the rest issue statements Quad member-states' ships at Exercise Malabar,...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla In upholding the centrality of the Black Sea in Russian strategic thinking, did Putin do too much too soon?...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Implications for India, the Indo-Pacific, and the UN system in the history of the Republic of China L to R:...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla “The fact of the matter is, we can do all we need to do without punishing anybody, anybody…China is going to...

Mackinder for the Twenty-first Century Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland ...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Xi Jinping seeks an accommodation with India; the PLA is implacably hostile It was December 2012: Xi Jinping...

Indo-US Relations: Need for the Right Setting Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla The upcoming visit of President Obama as Guest of Honour for...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla The China-Pakistan relationship goes back to the early 1960’s - 1963 saw the boundary agreement, and served...

Omar [L] and Mansour [R] – Omar’s death in 2013 was hidden for two years; Mansour was chosen as his successor. A good starting point for...

Mackinder Redux: Struggle for Eurasia after the Cold War Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla Berlin-Bagdad, Berlin-Herat, Berlin-Pekin -- not...

Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Prime Minister Modi [R] with President Xi Jinping [L] A clear-eyed assessment of the Prime Minister’s visit...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla The hype over the nuclear deal has obscured the main achievement of the Obama visit: this is in the Joint...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla Developing ties with Japan, China, and Australia It has been a busy September for India’s external...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla A Novice Looks at the BJP’s win at the recent General Elections The period 1987 – 89 was a watershed one in...

Ambassador Prabhat P. Shukla contribution to collection of reminiscences by former Heads of Mission in Singapore published by the...

The People’s Republic acts; the rest issue statements In order to rectify the above state of affairs, it is becoming imperative for the...

Growing signs of ideological hardening Back in the days of the Soviet Union, readers of a nationalist newspaper, Sovetskaya Rossiya...

Secularism is a fig leaf for anti-Hindu attitudes In 1919, after the First World War ended, one of the important issues facing the...

The year 2012 saw a simultaneous leadership transition in both the US and the People’s Republic of China [PRC], only the second time this...

The new Chinese leaders have been active in foreign affairs almost immediately after taking over their new offices in March this year....

PART I: Economic Developments Centre of gravity shifts to China from Japan in the 1990s The period since the end of the Cold War has seen...

The neighbour from hell To the insistent clamour that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must visit Pakistan in the near future, this is a...

One important chapter of the Anna movement has ended; a new one is set to begin. Time, perhaps, to pause and take stock of what went...

The recent round of talks between the Indian and Pakistan bureaucratic establishments has come to another uneasy pause with the Foreign...

“Since Tibet is not the same as China, it should ultimately be the wishes of the people of Tibet that should prevail and not any legal or...

An examination of the history of the Indo-American engagement since Indian Independence shows that there were three major occasions when...

Where Economics and Strategy Intersect Ambassador Prabhat P Shukla Introduction This essay attempts to understand the role of economic...