China’s influence in Nepal has grown in recent years but in many instances, the Chinese have merely stepped into breaches created either by India’s inability to keep its promises or by its insensitivity.
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Covid-19 Introduces New Tensions in India-China Relations
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the name “Wuhan” has become much better known in India than it ever was for the April 2018 informal summit between Modi and Xi in that city. It remains to be seen which of these two legacies from Wuhan will last in India-China relations.
Why a post-COVID-19 global order led by China is only a distant threat
The world order might require changing but China is not going to be able to take leadership for political and economic reasons
A China-led Post-Covid World? What to Expect
China seems to believe that it will over the next couple of decades have the economic and military capacity to preempt competition or opposition to its will and that this will itself lead to global order and on its terms. But such a world order is actually likely to be an unstable one based as it is on the principle of ‘might is right’.
Thinking about China in India 