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Review: The Chinese People’s Liberation Army in 2025 ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Francis Sempa)

PLAN Destroyer Shenzhen ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Author- United States Navy) Source- The Diplomat Author- Francis Sempa In July 2015, the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute published a collection of papers under the title, The Chinese People’s Liberation Army in 2025. The book’s editors, Roy Kamphausen, a senior advisor at the National Bureau of Asian Research, and David Lai, a research professor of Asian Security Affairs at the Army War College, describe it as “an effort to examine the drivers, potential vectors, and implications of China’s military modernization for the near-to-medium future.” The contributors to the volume are experts on the Chinese military and the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific region. The papers are grouped into three broad categories: (1) domestic, external and technological drivers of PLA modernization; (2) alternative futures for the PLA in regional and global affairs, including a weakened PLA; and (3) implicatio

Dowry law misfires: Don’t arrest first and then proceed with the case ( Copy Right @ The Times of India blog, Author- Swagato Ganguly)

Well meaning laws, if badly framed, can become a tool for extortion.  The Supreme Court has done well to build safeguards around Section 498-A , a provision of the law meant to target those guilty of dowry harassment – essentially to keep alive the basic principle of Indian jurisprudence that one is innocent until proven guilty. That principle is inverted by 498-A which makes dowry crime a cognizable and non-bailable offence. This has been interpreted to mean that anyone accused should be arrested the moment a complaint is registered. Given the ubiquity of marital quarrels and massive corruption among police forces everywhere in India, the extent of misuse of this provision    – for the sake of extortion or plain settling of scores — can easily be imagined. Neither should the issue be seen in a men vs women light. Because female relatives of a husband are equally liable to arrest in case of complaints against them. One is under threat not just if one is a married man but also i