Category: Political Parties

• A litany of economic woes but in China politics rules

  Originally published at 9DashLine, 24 August 2022. The list of problems the Chinese economy faces is long. A rural banking collapse in Henan province has affected deposits worth billions of dollars, including the life’s savings of several customers.[1] Chinese property developers have defaulted to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars[2] as a result…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  24 August 2022

  Political Parties, Sub-nationalism

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), centralisation, centre-province relations, Chinese economy, climate change, Communist Party of China (CPC), COVID-19, property sector, tech sector, zero-Covid strategy

• In the new cold war China is not Russia

  China’s decades-long pursuit of asymmetric military capabilities garners a great deal of attention but the victory of the US at the end of the Cold War taught it much else

  Jabin T. Jacob

  25 May 2022

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), cultural chauvinism, democracy, economic development, ideology, new cold war, Russia, Sino-US relations, Taiwan

• 100 Years of the Communist Party of China, Special Issue 1

  

  China Report Vol. 58, No. 1, February 2022 100 Years of the Communist Party of China, Special Issue 1 Guest Editors: Jabin T. Jacob & Bhim B. Subba https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/chra/58/1 CONTENTSIntroduction: Towards Exceptionalism: The Communist Party of China and its Uses of History Jabin T. Jacob & Bhim B. Subba https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00094455221074169 ‘Yelling at the Masses’: Making Propaganda Audible…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  28 February 2022

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  ‘Chinese Dream’, China-Taiwan relations, Communist Party of China (CPC), ethnic policy, labour issues, Marxism, Party Centenary, Party history, propaganda, Sincization, Tibet, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang

• Politics in Command in the Chinese Economy

  Why has the Communist Party of China actively targeted successful enterprises and sectors by imposing restrictions on their activity?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  7 November 2021

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  centralisation, Chinese economy, Communist Party of China (CPC), India-China relations, Jack Ma, technology, trade deficit, US-China trade war, Xi Jinping

• The Chinese Communist Party Turns 100

  How has the Chinese Communist Party survived so long in power? And where is it headed?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  6 July 2021

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  ‘China model’, Communist Party of China (CPC), Deng Xiaoping, India-China relations, Mao Zedong., Xi Jinping

• From Akshayapatra to Begging Bowl

  India’s poor response to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic will also have wider foreign policy ramifications for the country

  Jabin T. Jacob

  20 May 2021

  Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  Chinese foreign policy, COVID-19 pandemic, diplomacy, Indian foreign policy, media, South Asia, vaccines

• Chinese Behaviour Both Target and Model for Indian Foreign Policy

  India’s foreign policy under the BJP increasingly resembles Chinese foreign policy under the CPC in words and spirit.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  30 March 2021

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  'wolf warrior' diplomacy, ‘China model’, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), boundary dispute, Communist Party of China (CPC), LAC, Narendra Modi, S. Jaishankar, Sino-Indian relations, Xi Jinping, Yang Jiechi

• 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.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  25 December 2020

  Comparative Politics, Political Parties

  authoritarianism, Chinese embassy, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC)

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

  Asian perspectives on China’s domestic and foreign policies

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 November 2020

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  19th Party Congress, agriculture, ASEAN, Central Asia, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Communist Party of China (CPC), International Liaison Department (ILD), Japan, North Korea, propaganda, Sino-US relations, South Asia, South China Sea disputes, South Korea, state-owned enterprises (SOEs)