Presentation made at the British High Commission, New Delhi, 22 August 2013
Category Archives: Foreign Policy
China and Pakistan: Towards Increasing Dissonance?
why the Sino-Pak relationship is not all that it is cut out to be
A Framework for Understanding Sino-Indian Ties
What framework can we use to understand the current Sino-Indian relationship?
Military CBMs, Bilateral Agreements and the Sino-Indian Relationship
This essay examines the key agreements concluded between India and China in the post-Cold War era with implications for their boundary dispute and bilateral military CBMs.
Sino-Indian Military CBMs: Efficacy and Influences
What is the state of current military CBMs between India and China?How have these held up to the pressures of recent years?
The Ladakh Stand-off: What it Says (or Doesn’t) about China’s India Policy and India’s China Policy
While the Ladakh incident was eventually resolved by a combination of military-to-military meetings and diplomatic interactions, three aspects stand out.
Candour on the Red Carpet: Parsing the Sino-Indian Joint Statement
To the careful observer, it is clear that the Indian government was neither thrown off its stride by the Ladakh incident and nor was it overly swayed by the symbolism of Li Keqiang’s first overseas state visit.
Li Keqiang’s India Visit: Towards Realistic Expectations
In the case of high-level visits, no matter what the problems and complications in a bilateral relationship, it is always important from a diplomatic point of view to make sure the atmospherics are excellent and that warmth and enthusiasm are on full display.
The Ladakh ‘Incursion’: Chinese Actions and Indian Lessons
The ‘incursion’ by Chinese soldiers in the Depsang Plains in Ladakh raises some fundamental questions about the Sino-Indian boundary dispute and about Indian and Chinese policies.
Thinking about China in India 