There is a tripwire of caution built into the Sino-Vietnamese relationship, perhaps more so, on the Vietnamese side.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
The Bandung Conference at 60: Redeeming Unfulfilled Promises
India and China as the Third World’s most populous, powerful and technologically-advanced nations, have the greater responsibility to drive Afro-Asian unity
Responding to China’s New Silk Roads Initiative
Where India’s China analysts and policymakers across two different political dispensations have been remiss, is in anticipating the ambition and scale of the Chinese initiative
Expectations from the Modi Visit to China
It makes sense for two countries the size and complexity of India and China for their cities and provinces to develop their own independent economic linkages with each other.
Interpreting Prime Minister Modi’s China Approach
Originally published as ‘Interpreting Modispeak on China’, The Hindu (Chennai), 14 May 2015. As Indian Prime Ministers and political leaders go, Narendra Modi is unique in possessing some significant experience of that country before attaining office. In fact, despite – or perhaps, because of – the differences in world views and how he has gone about understanding …
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Regional Hegemony or Peaceful Rise? China’s New Silk Roads and the Asia-Pacific
China’s regional ambitions do tend toward hegemony that is both similar to and different from that of the United States in the region