Category: War and Conflict

• 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…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 May 2018

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘informal summit’, Asian century, Asian values, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, hegemony, new tianxia, North Korea, one belt, one road’ (OBOR) / ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI), pan-Asianism, protectionism, Rabindranath Tagore, Sino-Indian relations, South Korea

• 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…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  29 April 2018

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), Indian foreign policy, Narendra Modi, one belt, one road’ (OBOR) / ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI), Sino-Indian relations, Tibet, Xi Jinping

• Modi-Xi ‘Informal Summit’: Misplaced Hopes

  China has many ways of affecting Indian politics. Indeed, an India-China ‘reset’, as envisaged by the Narendra Modi government and represented by the “informal summit” between Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, has the very strong domestic context of several major state-level elections later this year and the…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  28 April 2018

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘informal summit’, boundary dispute, Chinese investments, Deng Xiaoping, economic relations, Narendra Modi, one belt, one road’ (OBOR) / ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI), protectionism, Rajiv Gandhi, Sino-Indian relations, trade deficit, Xi Jinping

• Book Review: India-Southeast Asia-China Triangular Dynamics

  Originally published as Jabin T. Jacob, ‘Insights on a Triangular Relationship’, The Book Review, Vol. XLI, No. 12, December 2017, 12-13. Amitav Acharya. East of India, South of China: Indian Encounters in Southeast Asia (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017). Karen Stoll Farrell and Sumit Ganguly (eds) Heading East: Security, Trade, and Environment between India…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  15 January 2018

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  1962 Sino-Indian conflict, ASEAN, Asian regionalism, Bandung, Brahmaputra river, Chinese foreign policy, democracy, environment, hegemony, Indian foreign policy, Jawaharlal Nehru, Myanmar, Northeast India, physical connectivity, Zhou Enlai

• Book Review: Xi Jinping’s China

  of Jayadev Ranade’s  Xi Jinping’s China (New Delhi: Knowledge World Publishers). pp. xi+394. Rs. 1,400. ISBN: 978-93-86288-90-5 This work is a collection of pieces written by the author in various online platforms and as part of other edited volumes. The reader does not have the benefit of an introduction that ties in all the chapters together…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  10 January 2018

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), China Studies, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping

• Explaining the India-China Standoff at Doklam: Causes and Implications

  ‘Explaining the India-China Standoff at Doklam: Causes and Implications’, Aakrosh, Vol. 20, No. 77, October 2017, pp. 60-76. Extract: In mid-June 2017, India and China began a long standoff in the Doklam area of Bhutan that came to an end only in late August. The crisis originated when a Chinese road-building party moved into an…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  13 October 2017

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, Doklam, Indian foreign policy, international law, Sino-Indian relations, soft power

• China and its Neighbourhood: Perspectives from India and Vietnam

  Jabin T. Jacob and Hoang The Anh (editors), China and Its Neighbourhood: Perspectives from India and Vietnam (New Delhi: Pentagon, 2017).

  Jabin T. Jacob

  21 September 2017

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), ASEAN, Asian regionalism, Cambodia, Chinese economy, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Part of Vietnam, Communist Party of China (CPC), FTA, Indian foreign policy, maritime security, Mekong, Mongolia, Pakistan, Quadrilateral Initiative, Sino-Vietnamese relations, Trans-Pacific Partnership

• The Doklam Standoff and After: Whither India-China Relations?

  What explains China’s high-decibel campaign of vilification against India in the wake of the Doklam standoff?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  9 September 2017

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, Doklam, Indian foreign policy, Sino-Indian relations, soft power

• In the Wake of Doklam: India-China Relations Entering a New Phase

  The basic principle of standing up to China’s bullying behaviour must be clear and unadulterated coming from India. In the long run only this will prevent more such incidents as Doklam.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  6 August 2017

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  1962 Sino-Indian conflict, Bhutan, boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, Doklam, Sikkim, Sino-Indian relations