One of the ways the Doklam incident should be read is as a way of China putting pressure to end the special nature of the India-Bhutan relationship.
Category Archives: War and Conflict
Explaining Action and Reaction on Doklam
India can expect LAC incursions by China to continue, even pick up pace, and to display a qualitatively different nature in the coming months and years.
Rethinking the China-Pakistan-India Triangle
India needs to rethink its ties with Pakistan and China in order to transform its external environment.
How India Deals with its China Challenge
The Chinese have learnt that a country’s foreign and security policies abroad are only as good as the strength of its structures and systems at home
China and North Korea: A Convenient Arrangement
Denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula does not progress because Beijing sees North Korea as a greater threat not to itself but to China’s adversaries
1962: A Very Particular View
Review of Shiv Kunal Verma’s ‘1962: The War That Wasn’t’
Tsai-Trump Telephone Call: Reading Trump and the Chinese Response
As US president, Donald Trump might be more amenable to testing Chinese limits and using Taiwan as a bargaining ploy.
Missing Opportunities: India and OBOR
By refusing to engage with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, India’s policymakers are letting go of opportunities to shape and influence events in its two largest neighbours
Major Powers in the Indo-Pacific
Even without the US, China’s increasing regional and global interests would make an ‘Indo-Pacific’ framework inevitable to understand and deal with political and security challenges in Asia and the world
Thinking about China in India 