August 2020 – Thinking about China in India

Journal Article : China’s External Propaganda during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jabin T. Jacob, ‘“To Tell China’s Story Well”: China’s International Messaging during the COVID-19 Pandemic’, China Report, Vol. 56, No. 3 August 2020. 374-392. Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has dented China’s image as an efficient Party-state given how an effort to cover up the outbreak and the resulting delays in reporting led to the virus spreading …

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Winning and Losing in Iran

Iran is no passive actor in the Sino-Indian contest but capable of playing the two sides against each other.

An Opportunity to Rethink India’s Economic Policies

How is it that the Indian government is talking of the ‘strategic disinvestment’ of its PSUs while the Chinese have converted their own into world-beating ‘champions’ with stakes across the globe?

A Foreign Policy without Foreign Languages

The Indian government has a penny wise and pound foolish approach to the acquisition of foreign expertise and language proficiency.