Military capability – including nuclear weapons and credible missile delivery systems – can only form one part of India’s overall China policy, at best an insurance policy. And surely nobody takes insurance hoping there will be an occasion to claim it.
Monthly Archives: April 2012
India-Taiwan Relations: Slow and Steady Does It
Interview published by the World Politics Review’s Global Insider on 20 April 2012.
Chinese Claims on Arunachal: A Consequence of the Sino-Tibetan Dispute
In the mid-1980s, the core of the boundary dispute for China shifted eastward to Arunachal Pradesh. At least three possible reasons can be highlighted for this new Chinese emphasis. .
The BRICS Challenge: Converting Rhetoric to Leadership
Can the BRICS really be an effective, united and leading voice in the global economy? Is the BRICS grouping a challenge to the existing Western-dominated global order? The Fourth BRICS Summit that concluded in Delhi in late February has not quite answered these larger questions.
The fall of Bo Xilai and some reflections on Indian politics
What does the exit of Bo Xilai say about the stability of the Chinese political system? And what lessons might be drawn for the Indian political system?
Thinking about China in India 