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Lessons for India from Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit
Originally published at Moneycontrol, 4 August 2022. How is United States’ House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan relevant to Indian citizens? One, it should teach Indians a thing or two about the value of separation of powers and the options it creates for conducting smart foreign policy. At a joint press conference…
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Two Years After Border Clashes, India Still Lacks a Coherent China Policy
Originally published at World Politics Review, 13 July 2022. It has been over two years since Chinese incursions in the summer of 2020 along the disputed India-China boundary in eastern Ladakh led to a series of skirmishes that left dozens of soldiers dead on both sides. Yet unlike a February 2019 confrontation with Pakistan, which…
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In the new cold war China is not Russia
China’s decades-long pursuit of asymmetric military capabilities garners a great deal of attention but the victory of the US at the end of the Cold War taught it much else
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China exploits Wang Yi’s India visit to its advantage
The Indian government allowed the Chinese envoy to grandstand and sell China’s narratives to the rest of the world
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Wang Yi in India: Whither India’s muscular foreign policy?
New Delhi continues to under-utilise the opportunity to revise and reset its China policy that the Chinese transgressions in eastern Ladakh provided nearly two years ago.
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Sino-Russia Ties: Intimacy can breed complications
Russian economic dependency might be a drag on China since it might not exactly be easy for Beijing to convert this to advantages elsewhere.
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How Russia-Ukraine crisis works in China’s favour
China’s tendency to privilege naked self-interest over principles in its international affairs suggests it seek advantages from the crisis created by the Russian invasion
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100 Years of the Communist Party of China, Special Issue 1
China Report Vol. 58, No. 1, February 2022 100 Years of the Communist Party of China, Special Issue 1 Guest Editors: Jabin T. Jacob & Bhim B. Subba https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/chra/58/1 CONTENTSIntroduction: Towards Exceptionalism: The Communist Party of China and its Uses of History Jabin T. Jacob & Bhim B. Subba https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00094455221074169 ‘Yelling at the Masses’: Making Propaganda Audible…
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India must beware of Chinese reassurances
Always expressing optimism about the India-China relationship no matter what the circumstances is something of a standard operating procedure for Chinese interlocutors
Thinking about China in India 