Hindustan Times
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, an international agreement that would bind all nations to never again carry out a nuclear test, has passed from the lexicon of India’s foreign policy debate – even though it was once one of the dirty words of New Delhi’s nattering class. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, March 2, 2012 at 1:44 am
Filed under World · Tagged Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, CTBT, CTBT functions, CTBTO, HINDUSTAN Times, nuclear testing, Pramit Pal
Recently, flitting from one aircraft to another, I read an old 2007 essay-cum-book James Mann’s The China Fantasy. Mann’s argument was that there were two broad schools of thinking about the future of China in the West. One school argued that as China’s economy grew and its middle class expanded it would, over time, become a more tolerant and democratic regime. The other school said that the contradiction of a modern economy and a totalitarian polity meant that China would ultimate suffer a political meltdown. Read more
(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, September 23, 2011 at 8:26 am
Filed under World · Tagged Beijing, James Mann, Pramit Pal, The China Fantasy
