Asian perspectives on China’s domestic and foreign policies
Category Archives: Comparative Politics
An Opportunity to Rethink India’s Economic Policies
How is it that the Indian government is talking of the ‘strategic disinvestment’ of its PSUs while the Chinese have converted their own into world-beating ‘champions’ with stakes across the globe?
A Foreign Policy without Foreign Languages
The Indian government has a penny wise and pound foolish approach to the acquisition of foreign expertise and language proficiency.
Book Chapter : China, India and Asian Connectivity
China’s BRI is a whole-of-the-system approach to build on physical connectivity projects and expand these to include other softer, subtler forms of connectivity.
The Great Chinese Anxiety
The Chinese people are anxious. The Communist Party of China (CPC) that governs them even more so.
India, China and their Accelerating Cold Wars
Chinese transgressions along the LAC indicate a significant breakdown of long-standing bilateral agreements and can be considered a tipping point. The situation will likely result in a variegated set of cold wars between India and China.
Belligerence and Silence: Explaining Chinese Actions Along the LAC in Ladakh
What should be concerning in the wake of Galwan and the reported loss of lives also of Chinese troops, is that Beijing will now be particularly prone to viewing any Indian action as provocative and seek to respond in an overwhelming manner as a way of saving face.
Reorienting India’s China Policy Towards Greater Transparency
The deaths of Indian soldiers along the LAC at Galwan is a watershed moment in India-China ties. If the relationship is not to spin out of control, India needs to develop military, economic and intellectual muscle certainly but also adopt transparency and openness to questions as a central plank of the reworking of its China policy.
Why a post-COVID-19 global order led by China is only a distant threat
The world order might require changing but China is not going to be able to take leadership for political and economic reasons
Thinking about China in India 