Category: Bilateral Visits

• Donald Trump in China, Beijing in control

  

  UNITED STATES PRESIDENT Donald Trump landed in Beijing on May 13 for his first State visit in his second term. The three-day visit is taking place at a time that China views as one of “global turbulence and profound changes”…

• IS REGIONAL COOPERATION POSSIBLE WITHOUT BILATERAL COOPERATION?

  THIS PAPER ARGUES that while regional cooperation is often viewed as a positive good, it is not sustainable in the long term without strong ties between its constituents. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization exemplifies this reality, given the significant and long-standing tensions between two of its members, India and China…

• Trump-Xi meeting: Washington-Beijing rivalry is more than a tale of rise and decline — it’s a mirror of two nations wrestling to determine the next global order

  

  ALTOGETHER TOO MUCH discussion on the US-China relationship today focuses on a contrast between the two countries. On the one hand, there is hand-wringing and head-slapping about America’s increasing global weaknesses and unpopularity, its seemingly inevitable decline engendered by the zero-sum…

• India-China thaw — real progress or an impression of progress?

  

  PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA Modi will head to China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders’ summit at the end of August but attention will be focused on the bilateral relationship…

• India’s China policy at a crossroads

  

  THE IRONY IS that this ‘normalisation’ of ties with China is not one that is the result of hard bargains or one that showcases any advantages for India

• China’s new trilaterals reshaping regional balance in South Asia

  

  FOR OVER A decade, China has pursued its grand strategic project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and more recently its extensions – the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilisation Initiative…

• China and an American Pope in Rome

  

  THE APPOINTMENT OF the United States-born Robert Prevost as the new Pope, Leo XIV has more than religious significance to it. It’s also a matter of geopolitical significance at a time when China is increasingly contending with the US for global domination…

• ചൈനയും, പുതിയ മാര്‍പാപ്പയും

  

  പുതിയ മാര്‍പാപ്പയായി സ്ഥാനാരോഹണം ചെയ്ത റോബര്‍ട്ട് പ്രെവോസ്റ്റിന്റെ (ലിയോ XIV) തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിന് മതപരമായ പ്രാധാന്യം മാത്രമല്ല ഉള്ളത്. അമേരിക്കയും, ചൈനയും ആഗോള മേധാവിത്വത്തിനായി മത്സരിക്കുന്ന വേളയില്‍, അതിനു ഒരു ജിയോപൊളിറ്റിക്കല്‍ പ്രാധാന്യം കൂടിയുണ്ട്…

• Ishiba-Trump meet a diplomatic win for Japan

  

  BY MID-FEBRUARY, United States’ new president Donald Trump had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House. The meeting with the Israeli leader was aimed at resolving the Gaza issue, which is a particularly emotive issue in the…