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Greater cooperative federalism in India a must to push economic thaw with China
TENSIONS IN INDIA-CHINA relations as far as the boundary dispute is concerned are here to stay. However, there is the belief — at least on the Indian side — that the economic relationship can and needs to be promoted…
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A ‘Global Community’ with Chinese Characteristics
The Chinese Party-state’s regime interests and worldviews do not allow for the kind of global community that Beijing claims to support…
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Harmony means hierarchy: Lifting the veil on China’s global community rhetoric
AT THE BEGINNING of the year, Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, inaugurated the Research Center on Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing…
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Ishiba Meets Trump: A Diplomatic Win for Japan Under Pressure
By mid-February, United States’ new president Donald Trump had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White… Originally published as Chisako T. Masuo and Jabin T. Jacob, ‘Ishiba-Trump meet a diplomatic win for Japan’, Deccan Herald, 24 February 2025.
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Ishiba-Trump meet a diplomatic win for Japan
BY MID-FEBRUARY, United States’ new president Donald Trump had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House. The meeting with the Israeli leader was aimed at resolving the Gaza issue, which is a particularly emotive issue in the…
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Indian Foreign Secretary’s Visit to Beijing Underlines New Delhi’s Limited Options
Originally published as ‘Vikram Misri’s Beijing visit underlines India’s limited options’, Deccan Herald, 4 February 2025. At the end of January, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri visited China in the latest step in an unfolding thaw in the bilateral relationship. It should be clear, however, from the statements put out by each side on the meeting…
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Vikram Misri’s Beijing visit underlines India’s limited options
AT THE END of January, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri visited China in the latest step in an unfolding thaw in the bilateral relationship. It should be clear, however, from the statements put out by each side on the meeting between Misri and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong that the two countries appear to want different things…
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Beyond the Military Prism: China’s Development Objectives in Xiaokang Villages in Tibet Autonomous Region
In 2017, China unveiled a policy to develop more than 600 bianjing xiaokang cun, or ‘moderately well-off border villages’, in 21 border counties in the Tibet Autonomous Region. This study examines how the policy is being implemented in 44 villages in four border counties in Ngari prefecture and in Droma county in Shigatse City using…
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For China, Age is More than a Number
Originally published as ‘For China, Age is More than a Number’, India’s World, 9 December 2024. On one of his state visits to Egypt in the 1990s, then Chinese President Jiang Zemin is said to have discovered that the Egyptians showcased their civilization as being 5,000 years old. On his return, he ordered that Chinese…