Category: Bilateral Visits

• Vikram Misri’s Beijing visit underlines India’s limited options

  

  AT THE END of January, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri visited China in the latest step in an unfolding thaw in the bilateral relationship. It should be clear, however, from the statements put out by each side on the meeting between Misri and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong that the two countries appear to want different things…

• On India-China ties, Delhi takes one step forward, two steps back

  

  WHILE INDIAN STATEMENTS on the bilateral relationship with China are exercises in brevity, Chinese statements are more expansive by comparison. Taken together, however, they provide a picture of how the relationship is evaluated by each side. With the 23rd meeting of the Special Representatives (SRs) on the India-China boundary…

• How India should read Prabowo Subianto’s China visit

  

  Outgoing Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited China eight times in 10 years and met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping 12 times during this period. Jokowi, as he is more commonly known, visited China three times before his first visit to — for the India-ASEAN summit in January 2018, and the G20 in September last…

• China and India’s Intense Contest for Influence

  

  UNDER A NEW defense cooperation agreement with the Maldives, China is set to offer free military assistance to the island nation. Coming soon after the presidential order to remove Indian naval personnel from the Maldives and after a so-called Chinese research vessel visited Malé, the agreement is no doubt a provocation to India…

• Xi Jinping skipping G20 Summit says a lot about how China sees India

  

  HOW SHOULD INDIA interpret Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to not attend the G20 leader’s summit in New Delhi? Domestic political crises are common enough reasons for leaders to want to skip foreign visits. There are reports that influential elders of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) have expressed their unhappiness at the present state…

• Power play in Moscow: What China hopes to gain from Xi’s meeting with Putin

  

  XI JINPING SEES IN Vladimir Putin an ally in the opposition to Western liberal ideas and a US-led global order. While the Chinese are no doubt calculating the costs of Russia’s actions to themselves, Beijing is unlikely to want a quick end to the war in Ukraine. Here’s why