Category: Comparative Politics

• Sino-Indian Sub-National Economic Ties: Changing the Game

  As the two countries try to improve their economic ties, much of their efforts will have to be concentrated at the sub-national level

• China and Narendra Modi

  Does Narendra Modi’s decisive electoral victory hold significance for Chinese domestic politics? And what is China’s approach going to be to Prime Minister Modi?

• India and China in Afghanistan: A Tangled Skein of Choices

  The post-US drawdown situation in Afghanistan throws up a number of national and regional political and security challenges for India and China.

• China’s 2014 NPC: Long Road to Economic Restructuring

  Even as India’s 15th Lok Sabha ended its tenure with the reputation of having conducted the least business among all its predecessors, in China, the NPC has become increasingly active

• 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

• 3rd Plenum, 18th CC: A Reformist Agenda but Challenges Ahead

  The communiqué issued at the end of the Plenum left many observers disappointed, but the follow-up 60-point “Decision” contained several important economic reform measures.

• India and the CHOGM in Sri Lanka: Well Played, Actually

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made the right decision not to go to Sri Lanka

• China Policy in India: For a Revolution in Mindsets

  What is urgently required is for Indian strategy to move from reliance on the brilliance or charisma of individuals to the solidity of processes and institutions.

• China in South Asia: Influence and Feedback

  Presentation made at the British High Commission, New Delhi, 22 August 2013