Category: War and Conflict

• Belligerence and Silence: Explaining Chinese Actions Along the LAC in Ladakh

  What should be concerning in the wake of Galwan and the reported loss of lives also of Chinese troops, is that Beijing will now be particularly prone to viewing any Indian action as provocative and seek to respond in an overwhelming manner as a way of saving face.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  22 June 2020

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  border incursions, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), Galwan, infrastructure development, Ladakh, Line of Actual Control (LAC), Sino-Indian relations, strategic culture

• Reorienting India’s China Policy Towards Greater Transparency

  The deaths of Indian soldiers along the LAC at Galwan is a watershed moment in India-China ties. If the relationship is not to spin out of control, India needs to develop military, economic and intellectual muscle certainly but also adopt transparency and openness to questions as a central plank of the reworking of its China…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  17 June 2020

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  1962 Sino-Indian conflict, boundary dispute, China Studies, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, Galwan, Indian Army, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Line of Actual Control (LAC), public communications

• Looking Beyond China: Strengthening Bilateral Relationships in the Quad

  Quad 2.0 has proceeded more determinedly even if slowly but the Covid-19 pandemic now offers an opportunity to step up the pace. The issue now is of ensuring that Chinese pressure does not derail its development yet again.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  9 June 2020

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Australia, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Indian Ocean, Japan, MALABAR naval exercises, Quadrilateral Initiative, regional security, Sino-Indian relations, United States

• Covid-19 Introduces New Tensions in India-China Relations

  With the COVID-19 pandemic, the name “Wuhan” has become much better known in India than it ever was for the April 2018 informal summit between Modi and Xi in that city. It remains to be seen which of these two legacies from Wuhan will last in India-China relations.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  26 May 2020

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘informal summit’, Andaman & Nicobar, anti-terrorism, Arunachal Pradesh, Chinese investments, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), COVID-19, Indian Army, Kashmir, Narendra Modi, Pakistan, Tibet, Xi Jinping

• Why a post-COVID-19 global order led by China is only a distant threat

  The world order might require changing but China is not going to be able to take leadership for political and economic reasons

  Jabin T. Jacob

  16 May 2020

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  authoritarianism, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), COVID-19, democracy, Donald Trump, economic growth, one-China policy, propaganda

• A China-led Post-Covid World? What to Expect

  China seems to believe that it will over the next couple of decades have the economic and military capacity to preempt competition or opposition to its will and that this will itself lead to global order and on its terms. But such a world order is actually likely to be an unstable one based as…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  9 May 2020

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘Chinese model’, authoritarianism, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), COVID-19, propaganda, South China Sea disputes, surveillance, technology

• Vacuous Summitry

  Structural problems between India and China are unlikely to be resolved by two leaders having ‘informal’ dialogues or meetings without agendas.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  18 October 2019

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘informal summit’, 5G, Chennai informal summit, Committee on External Affairs of the 16th Lok Sabha, Doklam, Huawei, India-China relations, Jammu and Kashmir, Masood Azhar, Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), Pakistan, trade deficit, UN Security Council, Wuhan informal summit

• Chinese Reactions to India’s Reorganization of Jammu & Kashmir

  There is little that actually changes on the ground on the LAC between India and China despite the latter’s rhetoric. It could also be reasonably argued that a change in the status of J&K is not a major concern for China in so far as it involves Pakistan.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  16 August 2019

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism, War and Conflict

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), Arunachal Pradesh, India-China relations, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Pakistan, Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR)

• Let the Quad Die: Towards Greater Indian Leadership in the Indo-Pacific

  There is a case to be made for an India-led initiative in the Indo-Pacific that displays greater commitment to upholding international law than to ‘inclusivity’ as well as willingness to take on a wider ambit of regional responsibilities in the security and political domains

  Jabin T. Jacob

  24 July 2019

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Australia, Chinese foreign policy, containment, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific, Indonesia, international law, Japan, maritime security, Quadrilateral Initiative, Singapore, South Korea, UNCLOS, United States, Vietnam