Category: Comparative Politics

• How China Uses Discourse to Erode US Dominance

  

  EXCEPT FOR INDIA, most countries in Asia have long thought their economic future lies in closer ties to China but that their security is guaranteed best by the…

• Xi has the measure of Trump

  

  IF THE SUMMIT between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing last week was expected to bring the world closer to peace in West Asia, that was a bar set too high already…

• 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”…

• Cooperative Federalism Essential for India’s China Policy

  

  Balanced India-China economic relations cannot happen without balanced centre-state relations in India..

• A ‘Global Community’ with Chinese Characteristics

  

  The Chinese Party-state’s regime interests and worldviews do not allow for the kind of global community that Beijing claims to support…

• Indian Foreign Secretary’s Visit to Beijing Underlines New Delhi’s Limited Options

  Originally published as ‘Vikram Misri’s Beijing visit underlines India’s limited options’, Deccan Herald, 4 February 2025. 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…

• For China, Age is More than a Number

  Originally published as ‘For China, Age is More than a Number’, India’s World, 9 December 2024. On one of his state visits to Egypt in the 1990s, then Chinese President Jiang Zemin is said to have discovered that the Egyptians showcased their civilization as being 5,000 years old. On his return, he ordered that Chinese…

• Xi Jinping’s civilizational claims: foreign policy strategy and domestic panacea

  It is important not to dismiss Xi Jinping’s reference to China as “a great country with a great civilization” as nothing more than domestic grandstanding.

• India’s Xinjiang Abstention: Neither Morality nor Self-Interest Clear

  Originally published as ‘What national interests has India achieved by abstaining at UNHRC vote on Xinjiang?’, Moneycontrol, 14 October 2022. In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, George Smiley is asked a question about what morality was — whether it was a method or if it was “vested in the aims”. “Difficult to know what one’s aims…