Category: Comparative Politics

• The Bandung Conference at 60: Redeeming Unfulfilled Promises

  India and China as the Third World’s most populous, powerful and technologically-advanced nations, have the greater responsibility to drive Afro-Asian unity

• Interpreting Prime Minister Modi’s China Approach

  Originally published as ‘Interpreting Modispeak on China’, The Hindu (Chennai), 14 May 2015. As Indian Prime Ministers and political leaders go, Narendra Modi is unique in possessing some significant experience of that country before attaining office. In fact, despite – or perhaps, because of – the differences in world views and how he has gone about understanding…

• China’s ‘New Tianxia’ and the Indian Response

  The fundamental weakness in India’s response to Chinese diplomatic initiatives is its lack of human resources capacity within and outside the Indian government.

• Sino-Sri Lankan Ties post-Rajapaksa

  China-Sri Lanka ties will continue to grow. New Delhi, meanwhile, needs to show greater purpose in its own dealings with its island neighbour

• China’s Conference Diplomacy: Lessons for India

  Unlike India, China understands the value of reaching out as often as possible through conferences and seminars to foreign intellectual and policy elites

• Taiwan’s 9-in-1 Election Results: Warning for the KMT-CPC Relationship

  The end-November local election results on Taiwan suggest that China will have to both rethink the scope and recalibrate the pace of its embrace of the island

• Reclaiming India’s Foreign Policy for its Citizens

  In a country where it is a struggle to even exercise one’s rights, how much attention can ordinary citizens devote to foreign policy?

• 4th Plenum: Towards Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics

  The Decision of the 4th Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC is arguing that there is no one-size fits-all approach to democracy or governance

• Hong Kong’s Occupy Central: Of Democracy, ‘Law’, and Identity

  What are the Hong Kong protests about and how do they impact developments elsewhere in China’s periphery and within the country itself? What link do the protests have with India?