Category: Political Parties

• India-Taiwan Relations: Promise Unfulfilled

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

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• Of Perceptions and Policies

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

• 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

• 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

• China and Narendra Modi

  Does Narendra Modi’s decisive electoral victory hold significance for Chinese domestic politics? And what is China’s approach going to be to Prime Minister Modi?

• China’s 2014 NPC: Long Road to Economic Restructuring

  Even as India’s 15th Lok Sabha ended its tenure with the reputation of having conducted the least business among all its predecessors, in China, the NPC has become increasingly active