Mr Brezhnev’s reference to the need for a system of collective security in Asia in his address to the recent world communist conference in Moscow naturally led to the surmise that the Soviet Union was interested in promoting and participating in an Asian alliance. The Soviet authorities are now … Read More
It is fortuitous that President Nixon will be visiting New Delhi within a couple of weeks of Mr Dinesh Singh’s trip to Washington. Will these two visits help to clear the way for Indo-US understanding and co-operation in the post-Viet Nam era in South and South-East Asia? The situation is … Read More
During his one-day visit to Rawalpindi last week, Mr Kosygin sought to create the impression that his principal purpose was to find out if some move could be made to unfreeze Indo-Pakistan relations. While this claim need not be rejected, there were clearly other reasons which could have persuaded the … Read More
By its blanket criticism of India’s foreign policy at its annual session in Bombay the Jana Sangh leadership has done no good to itself. It has only fostered the impression that it is interested more in striking certain postures than in making a constructive contribution to the current national debate … Read More
A pretty good case can be made in support of Mr. Dinesh Singh’s action in coming out squarely on the side of the USSR in the Sino-Soviet border dispute. After all India has had a terrible experience of dealing with China. It knows to its own cost how Peking distorts … Read More
Mr Edward Kennedy has gone much further than any leading political figure in the USA since 1949 in proposing reconciliation with Communist China. He has suggested that the United States should unilaterally withdraw travel and trade restrictions except on strategic goods, end its opposition to Peking’s admission not only to … Read More
Chairman Mao Tse-tung has been quoted in the American Press as having told the twelfth plenum of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party last November that the main threat to the country’s security now comes from the Soviet Union. Since the official text has not been published it … Read More
China could not have disrupted the Russo-American detente even if it had gone ahead with the Warsaw talks with the United States. The detente is an expression of the realisation on the part of the two super-powers that they cannot afford an unrestrained competition for power and influence because it … Read More
In spite of all that the Chinese may say and do it is difficult to take at its face value their charge that the Russians provoked the armed clash on the Manchurian border on March 2. Apart from our own bitter experience of dealing with the Chinese, three factors account … Read More
The risks of a soft line towards China are so obvious that it is inconceivable that New Delhi can possibly ignore them in its current search for a more viable posture towards its big neighbour. Yet some of the adverse consequences of a “friendly” approach can bear mention here in … Read More
