Category: War and Conflict

• Doklam Standoff: Not Forgetting Bhutan

  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.

• 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