Category Insights

Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Taiwan’s Porcupine Strategy 

The Asian Century, with China's emergence as a great power, has raised concern, excitement, and debates. Not only does China seek to have greater influence in the first chain islands but also develops the capability to push the US Navy beyond it. Time and again China has shown its willingness to use force, the Chinese Foreign Ministry for instance has stated that options other than peaceful negotiations were on the table. In this climate, recent developments have drawn the world's attention to Taiwan and its deterrence strategy. 

EWS Reservation: A Flawed Judgement and Policy

The split ruling of the Supreme Court, endorsing the validity of the 103rd Amendment to the Constitution to create a 10 per cent reservation quota exclusively for the poor (EWS) among the socially privileged, excluding the poor among the socially disprivileged, is bad in law, deficient in logic and oblivious of alternative designs for affirmative action.

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