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Central Asia needs greater attention from Indian policymakers
INDIA’S HOSTING OF the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meetings of defence and foreign ministers in April and in May as part of its presidency of the grouping is an occasion to consider afresh India’s influence in the region. Naturally, this influence must be measured…
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India’s inaction is encouraging China’s bad behaviour
LATE LAST MONTH, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held bilateral talks with his Chinese counterpart, General Li Shangfu on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) defence ministers meeting in New Delhi…
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Border management more than just domestic politics
DURING HIS VISIT to Arunachal Pradesh earlier this week, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah declared, “Today, we can state with pride, gone are those days when people could encroach into our land. Now, they cannot even take a pin’s tip worth of our land because the ITBP and the Indian Army are now present here.”…
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Power play in Moscow: What China hopes to gain from Xi’s meeting with Putin
XI JINPING SEES IN Vladimir Putin an ally in the opposition to Western liberal ideas and a US-led global order. While the Chinese are no doubt calculating the costs of Russia’s actions to themselves, Beijing is unlikely to want a quick end to the war in Ukraine. Here’s why
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Lesson for India from China’s balloon war
BILATERAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN India and China proscribe air intrusions across the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The 1996 Agreement on Confidence-Building Measures in the Military Field specifically states that flights of combat aircraft within 10 kilometres from the LAC need to be notified in advance, and that other aircraft cannot fly across the LAC except…
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Iran-Saudi Arabia Deal: China is here for self-interest, propaganda
IRAN AND SADI ARABIA have just announced the restoration of diplomatic ties – suspended since 2016 – with China playing the mediator. The development is being widely interpreted as a sign of China’s increasing role in West Asia and ability to match the United States in influence. Beijing’s diplomatic prowess is evident. Xi Jinping, China’s…
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Spy balloons and China’s narrative war against America’s superpower status
ANTHONY BLINKEN AND WANG YI, top diplomats from the US and China respectively, finally met at the end of last week at the 59th Munich Security Conference after the former had cancelled his visit to Beijing earlier this month in the wake of the discovery of a Chinese surveillance balloon in US airspace…
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India needs to rethink its China strategy at LAC
A confidential research paper presented during a mid-January conference of the top police leadership in India has suggested that skirmishes along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China will ‘get frequent’…
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Flare-up at Tawang marks shortcomings of India’s China diplomacy
THERE HAS BEEN yet another transgression by Chinese troops across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China. That it culminated in violence, that it took place this time in the Eastern Sector of their boundary dispute, or that it should take place in the middle of winter should surprise no one…