Category: War and Conflict

• India’s Mixed Signals to China on Terrorism

  While there is a clear case of Chinese double standards on terrorism, India has not helped its cause by failing to take a consistent position on the issue with China.

• China’s Reactions to India’s Attack on Balakot, Pakistan

  China professions of neutrality in South Asia cannot be taken seriously and are, in fact, attempts to create a false sense of equivalence between India and Pakistan.

• India’s Withdrawal of MFN Status to Pakistan: Ceding More Space to China

  India’s attenuation of economic links with Pakistan risk reducing its options in that country and making it even more dependant on China. New Delhi’s action shrinks its own leverage in South Asia while increasing China’s role.

• On Democratic Space and Aggressive Foreign Policy

  There is a connection between the clampdown on freedoms and increasing emphasis on the centrality of the CPC on one hand and China’s foreign policy assertiveness and willingness to undermine current international order on the other.

• 2019: What’s in Store for India-China Relations?

  Does India have it in itself to become an economic and political alternative to China?

• Chinese Defence Minister’s Visit: To What End for India?

  Instead of half-baked attempts at military diplomacy, India should impart greater clarity of expression and purpose to its military relationship with China. Is China a ‘strategic partner’ or a ‘strategic competitor’? Or both?

• China-India-Pakistan Trilateral: Red Herring and Opportunity

  The Chinese suggestion for an China-India-Pakistan trilateral should provide fresh impetus – if that were needed – for New Delhi to reconsider its own Pakistan policy.

• Is It Asia’s Moment, Yet?

  Asia witnessed two major summits in the last week of April – between Kim Jong-un of North Korea and Moon Jae-in of South Korea in Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone between the two countries, and between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuhan, China. Arguably, it was the meeting between…

• Modi-Xi ‘Informal Summit’: Domestic Priorities Uppermost

  US President Richard Nixon’s path-breaking visit to China in February 1972 could arguably be called the mother of all ‘resets’ of a major bilateral relationship. In his own words, it was ‘the week that… changed the world’ and there can be little disagreement on this score. The ‘informal summit’ scheduled later this week between Indian…