Category: Borders

• China’s New Silk Roads: Reinterpreting History

  The so-called ‘sound historical basis’ that Chinese commentators seem to find for the Maritime Silk Road might not be all that sound. It might just as well be called the Maritime Spice Route.

• Of Perceptions and Policies

  Review of Shishir Gupta’s ‘The Himalayan Face-Off: Chinese Assertion and the Indian Riposte’

• China’s Silk Roads in South Asia: Steel in a Silken Glove

  It could well be the case that the majority of Chinese investments will materialize not in India, South Asia’s largest economy and market, but in other parts of South Asia.

• Assessing the Xi Visit: After the Optics, A Reality Check

  China is not going to make big investments in Indian infrastructure development without adequate policy support from New Delhi and state governments.

• Xi Meets Modi: A Historic Opportunity for Sino-Indian Leadership

  Sino-Indian relations are at a new juncture. Modi and Xi must together summon the vision and statesmanship needed to grab the opportunity thus provided.

• Xi visits India: Great Expectations

  Modi and Xi must have the ability to overcome the hierarchy-bound nature of their official establishments to institutionalize greater and more frequent bilateral contacts

• People-to-People Connectivity in the BCIM Region: Principles and Practicalities

  Successful people-to-people movement requires good physical and communication infrastructure and modernized identification procedures at borders or within countries

• Infrastructure Development along India’s Borders with China

  Indian infrastructure development in its border areas is a complex mix of national security considerations, political gamesmanship and economic rent-seeking

• Mukherjee in Arunachal: Of China and Other Matters

  The challenge for both New Delhi and Itanagar is to back up the advantages of an open, democratic polity with the equally important imperatives of social and economic development