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This Election Season, What Do Indian Political Parties Say About China?
China is the primary foreign policy and security challenge that India faces in its neighbourhood. Alongside New Delhi’s apprehensions is a fascination in sections of the Indian political elite for the way China has grown its economic and diplomatic heft. China is a reference point – a model even – to benchmark and achieve domestic economic…
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How India should read Prabowo Subianto’s China visit
Outgoing Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited China eight times in 10 years and met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping 12 times during this period. Jokowi, as he is more commonly known, visited China three times before his first visit to — for the India-ASEAN summit in January 2018, and the G20 in September last…
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China’s Undeclared Competition with India in Regional and Global Institutions
India-China bilateral relations are at their most difficult point in decades. China violated a host of bilateral treaties when it conducted a series of incursions across the Eastern section of the disputed India China boundary in the summer of 2020. In one particular clash, 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese soldiers were killed…
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India can’t afford to ignore China challenge
AS WE IN India enter another election season, it is also an opportunity to draw attention to the challenges that China poses to our national security interests. If one were to pick just the last fortnight, there are at least three developments that draw attention to the inadequacy of India’s responses, or of its relative…
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How China Perceives the World and India: Reading Li Qiang’s Government Work Report
WHILE LI QIANG makes the call “for an equal and orderly multipolar world and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalisation” and claims China will be “firm in opposing all hegemonic, high-handed, and bullying acts and in upholding international fairness and justice”, his country’s record speaks otherwise…
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Time for India to be proactive on China
APRIL MARKS FOUR years since the Chinese initiated a series of transgressions all along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh eventually leading to the Galwan Valley clash in June 2020. As India gears up for national elections, it is also an occasion to assess the Indian response and implications for its foreign…
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Decoding China’s economy — Part II’
IN HIS GOVERNMENT work report delivered on March 5 at the opening session of the National People’s Congress, Chinese Premier Li Qiang drew a link between global problems and the Chinese economy…
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Decoding China’s economy — Part I
CHINA HAS BEEN facing economic headwinds for some time now. Its domestic problems are long-standing – high local government debt, low consumption, and overcapacity in several industries, among others. This is the broad context against which Chinese…
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Making sense of China’s anti-corruption agenda
CHINESE PREMIER LI QIANG presented his first government report on March 5 at the annual legislative session of the National People’s Congress, one-half of the country’s rubber-stamp parliament…
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China and India’s Intense Contest for Influence
UNDER A NEW defense cooperation agreement with the Maldives, China is set to offer free military assistance to the island nation. Coming soon after the presidential order to remove Indian naval personnel from the Maldives and after a so-called Chinese research vessel visited Malé, the agreement is no doubt a provocation to India…
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Xi Jinping, Not The PLA: A Simpler Explanation for India-China Tensions
The principle of Occam’s razor states that if you have two competing ideas to explain a phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one. In other words, the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually the correct one…