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Brahma Chellaney Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: The Quad Squad, Don Freeborn

The Quad Squad

Don Freeborn
Brahma ChellaneyBrahma Chellaney

Modi says the fourth Quad summit in Tokyo on Tuesday offers an opportunity to "review the progress of Quad initiatives." The Quad leaders set up three working groups in March 2021 and then three more in September. The Quad thus far has been disappointing in terms of deliverables. https://t.co/S4uCK4mZtb

Paperback, 2019

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Book Cover for: The Elements of the China Challenge: November 2020, State Department

The Elements of the China Challenge: November 2020

State Department
Brahma ChellaneyBrahma Chellaney

US State Department released an excellent 72-page report in November 2020, "The Elements of the China Challenge." This week it has released another good report, the 47-page "Limits in the Seas," on PRC's unlawful claims and expansionism in South China Sea. https://t.co/o8RqQhFab0

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Book Cover for: God Is Young: A Conversation, Pope Francis

God Is Young: A Conversation

Pope Francis
Brahma ChellaneyBrahma Chellaney

In case you missed this: "Pope Francis has said Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine was 'perhaps somehow provoked' as he recalled a conversation in the run-up to the war in which he was warned NATO was 'barking at the gates of Russia'." https://t.co/Ilvujc4a66

Hardcover, 2018

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Book Cover for: The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie
Brahma ChellaneyBrahma Chellaney

The murderous attack on Salman Rushdie by a U.S.-born Shia extremist is a reminder that fanatics are willing to kill in the name of God. The Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses was murdered. The book's Italian and Norwegian translators were separately attacked but survived.

Paperback, 2008

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Book Cover for: Assimilation or Death: The PRC's Programs and Policies in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Joseph Babitsky

Assimilation or Death: The PRC's Programs and Policies in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region

Joseph Babitsky
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DIVIDE AND RULE, COLONIAL STYLE: "The PRC has sowed divisions and left Tibetans in exile frightened and suspicious of each other ... PRC’s influence campaigns abroad target ethnic minorities and dissidents on a global scale unmatched by any other nation." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/26/we-are-so-divided-now-how-china-controls-thought-and-speech-beyond-its-borders?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1635224887

Paperback, 2018

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Book Cover for: Settler Colonialism, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Settler Colonialism

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Brahma ChellaneyBrahma Chellaney

It is remarkable that Americans still celebrate Thanksgiving which whitewashes genocide against Native Americans, as historians Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker bring out in their book. Like Columbus Day, Thanksgiving holiday is about the onset of settler colonialism.

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Book Cover for: Netaji: Collected Works: Volume 2: The Indian Struggle, 1920-1942, Subhas Chandra Bose

Netaji: Collected Works: Volume 2: The Indian Struggle, 1920-1942

Subhas Chandra Bose
Brahma ChellaneyBrahma Chellaney

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's statue at India Gate will serve as an antidote to India's founding myth that it won independence through non-violence. As I wrote earlier, that costly myth is at the root of India's twin problems relating to China and Pakistan. https://t.co/xU6Q3CcRIY

Paperback, 1998

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