Category: War and Conflict

• Shifting Equilibrium: Explaining Sino-Indian Relations since 2005

  Sino-Indian relations remain stable broadly speaking despite all the tensions and what is more after every such occasion, the relationship climbs up a notch, moving to a new level of stability. This has been particularly evident since 2005.

• Q&A: The India-China Border Conflict

  Interview originally published by the World Politics Review’s Global Insider on 23 November 2011.

• Emerging Regional Architectures in Asia

  In the case of Russia-India-China trilateral, the domestic political orientation of each country contributes fundamentally to its perceptions and views of the objectives and functions of regional organizations.

• China’s Defence White Papers: A Political Reading

  While studying the military aspects of China’s National Defense White Papers, Indian policymakers and military planners must pay attention to the political elements of this document in order to achieve a fuller more accurate understanding of China’s intentions.

• The Age of the Lilliputians

  The Asian century might not be so much about China and India as their neighbours who get these giants to behave themselves.

• Reimagining Tibet in Sino-Indian Relations

  With the boundary dispute ongoing, India needs to adopt a dual policy of continuing to close the military gap with China while creating incentives for cooperation.

• China-Pakistan Relations after Osama bin Laden

  Domestic instability in Pakistan, the continuing spread of religious radicalism from Pakistan into China, and threats to Chinese economic interests are conditions that would amplify the need for Beijing to take a sterner line with its “all-weather friend”. This could well be a serious dilemma confronting the Chinese leadership at some point in the near…

• Hillary Clinton’s India Visit: Chinese Elephant in the Room

  If “much of the history of the 21st century will be written in Asia”, then New Delhi will need to find the energy and resources to focus not just on its troubled western frontiers but also on its sprawling and diverse eastern neighbourhood.

• Arunachal: One Step Back, Two Steps Forward?

  The issuing of stapled visas by China to Arunachalis is possibly, a step forward, an acknowledgement that the area in question is disputed, and by implication, amenable to resolution by negotiations. This in turn indicates that China has taken a step back from its previous position of no visas being required.