This week marked the 10th anniversary of the Mumbai bombings that killed 166 people. But instead of cracking down on the group responsible, Pakistan’s army continues to coddle it, notes Sadanand Dhume in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The government’s desultory efforts to prosecute seven defendants has not yielded a single conviction. One of the group’s top jihadist even ran for office. If Pakistan is serious about repairing its ties with India, it should convict the men behind the 2018 attacks. Learn more here.
What is the likelihood for peace between the US and China? In the Journal of Chinese Political Science, Oriana Skylar Mastro discusses the likelihood of major conflict between a rising and an established power and evaluates whether the pessimism over US-China peace prospects is warranted. What does this mean for US policy toward China? Find out here. This week marked the 10th anniversary of the Mumbai bombings that killed 166 people. But instead of cracking down on the group responsible, Pakistan’s army continues to coddle it, notes Sadanand Dhume in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The government’s desultory efforts to prosecute seven defendants has not yielded a single conviction. One of the group’s top jihadist even ran for office. If Pakistan is serious about repairing its ties with India, it should convict the men behind the 2018 attacks. Learn more here. In a piece for the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Jessica Trisko Darden evaluates the new US strategy for counterterrorism’s implications for Southeast Asia. Trisko Darden notes that the strategy recognizes the weakness of relying solely on military force, calls for increased effort to prevent terrorism through nonmilitary means, and identifies “radical Islamist terrorist groups” as the United States’ principal enemies. She warns that Southeast Asian governments should not expect radical change in US policy, but a creeping retrenchment. Learn more here.
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