Category: Comparative Politics

• Recalibrating India’s Foreign Policy in South Asia: The China Factor

  New Delhi has tried to work around its internal contradictions and a weak economy with the help of rhetoric and high profile diplomacy but it is increasingly difficult to keep up the act.

• China’s post-COVID19 image problem

  When democracies fail at upholding their values that might be a more consequential image problem than anything the Chinese will have to worry about.

• Chinese Communists in in India: Much Ado About Nothing?

  Membership of the CPC is essential to success in any kind of activity in China. CPC members will, therefore, be found in every institution in China, and in every Chinese organisation abroad.

• Book : China’s Search for ‘National Rejuvenation’: Domestic and Foreign Policies under Xi Jinping

  Asian perspectives on China’s domestic and foreign policies

• 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.