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  • The Great Chinese Anxiety

    The Chinese people are anxious. The Communist Party of China (CPC) that governs them even more so.

    Jabin T. Jacob

    8 July 2020
    Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict
    ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), centre-province relations, Chinese domestic politics, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese MoFA, Communist Party of China (CPC), COVID-19, globalization, terrorism, Tibet, Xi Jinping, Xinjiang
  • India, China and their Accelerating Cold Wars

    Chinese transgressions along the LAC indicate a significant breakdown of long-standing bilateral agreements and can be considered a tipping point. The situation will likely result in a variegated set of cold wars between India and China.

    Jabin T. Jacob

    29 June 2020
    Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict
    ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), balance of power, Chinese foreign policy, democracy, economic integration, ideology, Line of Actual Control (LAC), Russia, Sino-Indian relations, Sino-US relations, South Asia
  • Confused and Confusing: The PM’s Official Statements About 15 June

    Prime Minister Modi’s statement at the All Party Meeting on 19 June ended up casting doubt on India’s own behaviour and claims along the LAC and actually encourages further Chinese assertiveness all along disputed sectors on the LAC as well as the temptation to open up fresh disputes.

    Jabin T. Jacob

    25 June 2020
    Borders, Political Parties, War and Conflict
    Aksai Chin, border incursions, Galwan, India-China relations, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Line of Actual Control (LAC), Narendra Modi, public communications
  • Belligerence and Silence: Explaining Chinese Actions Along the LAC in Ladakh

    What should be concerning in the wake of Galwan and the reported loss of lives also of Chinese troops, is that Beijing will now be particularly prone to viewing any Indian action as provocative and seek to respond in an overwhelming manner as a way of saving face.

    Jabin T. Jacob

    22 June 2020
    Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict
    border incursions, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), Galwan, infrastructure development, Ladakh, Line of Actual Control (LAC), Sino-Indian relations, strategic culture
  • Reorienting India’s China Policy Towards Greater Transparency

    The deaths of Indian soldiers along the LAC at Galwan is a watershed moment in India-China ties. If the relationship is not to spin out of control, India needs to develop military, economic and intellectual muscle certainly but also adopt transparency and openness to questions as a central plank of the reworking of its China…

    Jabin T. Jacob

    17 June 2020
    Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict
    1962 Sino-Indian conflict, boundary dispute, China Studies, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, Galwan, Indian Army, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Line of Actual Control (LAC), public communications
  • Looking Beyond China: Strengthening Bilateral Relationships in the Quad

    Quad 2.0 has proceeded more determinedly even if slowly but the Covid-19 pandemic now offers an opportunity to step up the pace. The issue now is of ensuring that Chinese pressure does not derail its development yet again.

    Jabin T. Jacob

    9 June 2020
    Foreign Policy, War and Conflict
    Australia, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Indian Ocean, Japan, MALABAR naval exercises, Quadrilateral Initiative, regional security, Sino-Indian relations, United States
  • A Growing Chinese Presence in Nepal

    China’s influence in Nepal has grown in recent years but in many instances, the Chinese have merely stepped into breaches created either by India’s inability to keep its promises or by its insensitivity.

    Jabin T. Jacob

    27 May 2020
    Borders, Foreign Policy, Political Parties
    Chinese foreign policy, Hou Yanqi, Indian foreign policy, Kalapani, KP Oli, Sino-Indian relations, South Asia, Tibet
  • Covid-19 Introduces New Tensions in India-China Relations

    With the COVID-19 pandemic, the name “Wuhan” has become much better known in India than it ever was for the April 2018 informal summit between Modi and Xi in that city. It remains to be seen which of these two legacies from Wuhan will last in India-China relations.

    Jabin T. Jacob

    26 May 2020
    Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict
    ‘informal summit’, Andaman & Nicobar, anti-terrorism, Arunachal Pradesh, Chinese investments, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), COVID-19, Indian Army, Kashmir, Narendra Modi, Pakistan, Tibet, Xi Jinping
  • Why a post-COVID-19 global order led by China is only a distant threat

    The world order might require changing but China is not going to be able to take leadership for political and economic reasons

    Jabin T. Jacob

    16 May 2020
    Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict
    authoritarianism, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), COVID-19, democracy, Donald Trump, economic growth, one-China policy, propaganda
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