There is a tripwire of caution built into the Sino-Vietnamese relationship, perhaps more so, on the Vietnamese side.
Category Archives: War and Conflict
The Bandung Conference at 60: Redeeming Unfulfilled Promises
India and China as the Third World’s most populous, powerful and technologically-advanced nations, have the greater responsibility to drive Afro-Asian unity
Interpreting Prime Minister Modi’s China Approach
Originally published as ‘Interpreting Modispeak on China’, The Hindu (Chennai), 14 May 2015. As Indian Prime Ministers and political leaders go, Narendra Modi is unique in possessing some significant experience of that country before attaining office. In fact, despite – or perhaps, because of – the differences in world views and how he has gone about understanding …
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Regional Hegemony or Peaceful Rise? China’s New Silk Roads and the Asia-Pacific
China’s regional ambitions do tend toward hegemony that is both similar to and different from that of the United States in the region
China’s New Silk Roads: Reinterpreting History
The so-called ‘sound historical basis’ that Chinese commentators seem to find for the Maritime Silk Road might not be all that sound. It might just as well be called the Maritime Spice Route.
Sino-Sri Lankan Ties post-Rajapaksa
China-Sri Lanka ties will continue to grow. New Delhi, meanwhile, needs to show greater purpose in its own dealings with its island neighbour
Counter-Terrorism in South Asia: China’s Win-Win Triangle
In the anti-terrorism struggle in South Asia involving China, Pakistan and India, Beijing scores off both its neighbours
Of Perceptions and Policies
Review of Shishir Gupta’s ‘The Himalayan Face-Off: Chinese Assertion and the Indian Riposte’
Divide and Rule: China Woos Southeast Asia
Beijing is trying to keep ASEAN a divided house over the South China Sea issue by employing a mix of diplomacy and economic engagement.
Thinking about China in India 