Category: Political Parties

• Of Elections, Fake News and China

  Indian citizens could perhaps learn much from the Taiwanese election campaign, where various civic groups actively fact-checked each candidate’s speech and confronted them in real time over inconsistencies and inaccuracies.

• Foreign Minister Jaishankar’s Ramnath Goenka Lecture: Countering Dogma with Still More Dogma

  The pragmatic realism of the kind that the Indian foreign minister appeared to promote at the lecture actually falls short where China is concerned.

• China Worries in India’s RCEP Decision

  There appears to be a lack of willingness by the Indian government to call China out publicly on its double standards and its unmet promises even as it continues to be obliquely referred to as a concern by several BJP leaders.

• The Many Instruments of Chinese Foreign Policy

  India will need to match China with a capable and expanded foreign service working in coordination with political parties, business communities, intellectual elites and its diaspora but also display adherence to values that are genuinely attractive to the peoples of other nations to push an ‘Indian model’ of politics and development that can challenge the…

• Chinese Expectations from Modi 2.0

  In the second Modi term, New Delhi will have to do a better job than issuing statements on the BRI or ignoring it altogether and be willing to offer credible alternatives if it is retain any standing among its neighbours and further afield.

• China and National Security – the BJP’s 2019 Election Manifesto

  What does the election manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party say about China in national security terms?

• China and National Security – the Congress’ 2019 Election Manifesto

  What does the election manifesto of the Indian National Congress say about China in national security terms?

• Chinese Views of India’s Elections: Watch and Disparage

  India’s democracy and its largely free and fair elections and the uncertainties they throw up, strongly challenge the ideas China’s communists have about order and stability, of ‘harmony’ in society and politics as represented by one-party rule.

• The Rising Chinese Challenge to Order and Politics Everywhere

  For democracies to compete with the Chinese model, they will have to ensure both economic and social well-being and political accountability.