Category: Political Parties

• 3rd Plenum, 18th CC: A Reformist Agenda but Challenges Ahead

  The communiqué issued at the end of the Plenum left many observers disappointed, but the follow-up 60-point “Decision” contained several important economic reform measures.

• India and the CHOGM in Sri Lanka: Well Played, Actually

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made the right decision not to go to Sri Lanka

• China Policy in India: For a Revolution in Mindsets

  What is urgently required is for Indian strategy to move from reliance on the brilliance or charisma of individuals to the solidity of processes and institutions.

• Centre-Province Relations in Contemporary China

  Stronger and more autonomous provincial economies have in the reform era, led to increasingly assertive provincial governments but to assume this has come entirely at the expense of the central government would be a mistake.

• China’s ‘Parliament’: Clear and Present Challenges

  While the Communist Party continues to be the more powerful than the government in China, the symbols of state such as the National People’s Congress are increasingly vocal.

• Foreign Policy under China’s New Leaders: What India can Expect

  While India must continue its own defence modernization and engage in partnership and cooperation with the United States and with China’s neighbours, it must also simultaneously be willing to work with China’s leadership on a broad range of economic, political, military and social issues.

• New Leadership in China: Quo Vadis Political Reform?

  More than the challenges of political reforms, it appears the Communist Party of China fears a return to the populism and demagoguery of the Mao era.

• Post-China’s 18th Party Congress: Socioeconomic Challenges Paramount

  The fifth generation of the CPC leadership in China faces severe domestic challenges, chief among them, widespread corruption, increasing inequality, rising unemployment and growing regional disparities.

• How Red is my Communist?

  The Communist Party of India (Marxist) held its 20th Party Congress in Kozhikode, Kerala, in April. What does the CPI (M) think of its Chinese counterpart and how do the two parties compare?