Category: Borders

• Lessons for India from Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit

  Originally published at Moneycontrol, 4 August 2022. How is United States’ House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan relevant to Indian citizens? One, it should teach Indians a thing or two about the value of separation of powers and the options it creates for conducting smart foreign policy. At a joint press conference…

• China exploits Wang Yi’s India visit to its advantage

  The Indian government allowed the Chinese envoy to grandstand and sell China’s narratives to the rest of the world

• Wang Yi in India: Whither India’s muscular foreign policy?

  New Delhi continues to under-utilise the opportunity to revise and reset its China policy that the Chinese transgressions in eastern Ladakh provided nearly two years ago.

• How Russia-Ukraine crisis works in China’s favour

  China’s tendency to privilege naked self-interest over principles in its international affairs suggests it seek advantages from the crisis created by the Russian invasion

• India must beware of Chinese reassurances

  Always expressing optimism about the India-China relationship no matter what the circumstances is something of a standard operating procedure for Chinese interlocutors

• Assessing India’ China Policy in 2021

  It appears that the Indian government lacks the political will to deal with China firmly and unambiguously

• China in Afghanistan: Not Ready for the Burden

  Despite the US withdrawal, it is too early for anyone to declare victory for China in Afghanistan

• Xi Jinping in Tibet: What India Needs to Look Out For

  The non-military uses of China’s civilian infrastructure build-up in TAR or Xinjiang must not be ignored

• Xi Jinping Visits the Tibet Autonomous Region

  Constant references to the ‘new’ to describe the Party-State’s views of developments on the Tibetan plateau underline Xi’s attempts to leave his personal stamp on Tibet policy.