Category: Borders

• 1962: A Very Particular View

  Review of Shiv Kunal Verma’s ‘1962: The War That Wasn’t’

• Chinese Provinces and Nepal: The Case of Tibet Autonomous Region

  China appears to be using its provinces such as Tibet, Yunnan and Sichuan to exercise influence in a different, apparently less threatening way in Nepal.

• India’s Response to China’s ‘one belt, one road’ Initiative

  This article looks at India’s response to China’s OBOR and the weaknesses of that response through two specific cases of Pakistan and the Indian Ocean.

• US FON Ops and China’s Continuing Challenge

  The USS Lassens action will not prevent China from persisting with its ‘forward policy’ in the South China Sea.

• India, China and the Yarlung Tsangpo: Much Ado About Nothing?

  China’s operationalization of the Zangmu hydropower station on the Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra must be seen in the context of environmental developments elsewhere in the country.

• Arunachal Pradesh in the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute: Constant Claims, Changing Politics

  The persistent Sino-Indian boundary dispute needs to be seen within the framework of centre-periphery relations in China and India and well as of their different political systems.

• The Why of China’s Actions in the South China Sea

  China is trying to create a ‘moral code’ for its foreign policy activity but this code is also founded on a sense of national exceptionalism

• China and Vietnam: Neither Thick Friends nor Constant Antagonists

  There is a tripwire of caution built into the Sino-Vietnamese relationship, perhaps more so, on the Vietnamese side.

• Interpreting Prime Minister Modi’s China Approach

  Originally published as ‘Interpreting Modispeak on China’, The Hindu (Chennai), 14 May 2015. As Indian Prime Ministers and political leaders go, Narendra Modi is unique in possessing some significant experience of that country before attaining office. In fact, despite – or perhaps, because of – the differences in world views and how he has gone about understanding…