Category: Political Parties

• 19th National Congress of the CPC: Xi Jinping Firmly in Charge

  Xi places great stress on the CPC in the vanguard role for China. Taken together with his calls for national ‘rejuvenation’, it would appear there is a turn towards greater authoritarianism and centralisation in China.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  27 October 2017

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  19th Party Congress, anti-corruption campaign, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Communist Party of China (CPC), Deng Xiaoping, Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, Mao Zedong., Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC), Sino-Indian relations, Xi Jinping

• China and its Neighbourhood: Perspectives from India and Vietnam

  Jabin T. Jacob and Hoang The Anh (editors), China and Its Neighbourhood: Perspectives from India and Vietnam (New Delhi: Pentagon, 2017).

  Jabin T. Jacob

  21 September 2017

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

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), ASEAN, Asian regionalism, Cambodia, Chinese economy, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Part of Vietnam, Communist Party of China (CPC), FTA, Indian foreign policy, maritime security, Mekong, Mongolia, Pakistan, Quadrilateral Initiative, Sino-Vietnamese relations, Trans-Pacific Partnership

• Tsai Ing-wen’s Visit to Central America

  Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen is both pragmatic and a realist as she manoeuvres to preserve her country’s diplomatic space and values.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  7 February 2017

  Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  Central America, China-Taiwan relations, democracy, Democratic Progressive Party, diplomacy, Donald Trump, infrastructure development, United States

• China and North Korea: A Convenient Arrangement

  Denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula does not progress because Beijing sees North Korea as a greater threat not to itself but to China’s adversaries

  Jabin T. Jacob

  28 January 2017

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  border trade, Chinese foreign policy, economic sanctions, North Korea, nuclear proliferation, nuclear test, Sino-US relations, South Korea

• India-Taiwan Relations: Promise Unfulfilled

  India-Taiwan relations lack both ambition and creativity and suffer from not a little pusillanimity.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  14 September 2016

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), economic cooperation, education, Indian foreign policy, infrastructure development, Kuomintang (KMT), people-to-people contacts, Sino-Indian relations, sub-nationalism, Taiwan

• Parsing Tsai Ing-wen’s Inaugural Presidential Speech

  Tsai Ing-wen’s inaugural speech as President of the Republic of China suggests that Taiwan will continue to chart a course differentiating itself from mainland China.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  3 June 2016

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  Cross-strait relations, democracy, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), elections, federalism, Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen

• Interpreting Ma Ying-jeou’s Visit to Taiping Island

  What are the implications of the Taiwanese president’s visit to the Spratlys for his country’s international space? What possibilities lie ahead for the incoming DPP administration?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  10 February 2016

  Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  boundary dispute, Chen Shui-bian, cross-Straits relations, Democratic Progressive Party, Kuomintang, Ma Ying-jeou, South China Sea disputes, Spratly Islands, Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, United States

• China and Vietnam: Neither Thick Friends nor Constant Antagonists

  There is a tripwire of caution built into the Sino-Vietnamese relationship, perhaps more so, on the Vietnamese side.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  5 June 2015

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  Chinese foreign policy, Communist Part of Vietnam, Communist Party of China (CPC), Indian foreign policy, Sino-Vietnamese relations, South China Sea disputes, Southeast Asia

• Of Perceptions and Policies

  Review of Shishir Gupta’s ‘The Himalayan Face-Off: Chinese Assertion and the Indian Riposte’

  Jabin T. Jacob

  27 December 2014

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  1962 Sino-Indian conflict, Chinese foreign policy, economic relations, Indian foreign policy, Indian military, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), infrastructure development, Jawaharlal Nehru, Look East Policy, Ministry of Defence, perceptions, Sino-Indian relations, Sino-Pak relations, South Asia, Tibet