What is the content of Indian thinking on China? Who is it in India that thinks about China or is affected by China? And finally, how does thinking on China manifest itself in a strategic policy framework?
Tag Archives: 1962 Sino-Indian conflict
What the Henderson Brooks Report Really Says
In India, it is easier to blame individuals for mistakes made than to identify and correct failings and shortcomings in the institutions and processes that individuals are only a part of.
Infrastructure Development along India’s Borders with China
Indian infrastructure development in its border areas is a complex mix of national security considerations, political gamesmanship and economic rent-seeking
Military CBMs, Bilateral Agreements and the Sino-Indian Relationship
This essay examines the key agreements concluded between India and China in the post-Cold War era with implications for their boundary dispute and bilateral military CBMs.
Sino-Indian Military CBMs: Efficacy and Influences
What is the state of current military CBMs between India and China?How have these held up to the pressures of recent years?
The Ladakh ‘Incursion’: Chinese Actions and Indian Lessons
The ‘incursion’ by Chinese soldiers in the Depsang Plains in Ladakh raises some fundamental questions about the Sino-Indian boundary dispute and about Indian and Chinese policies.
15th Sino-Indian SR Talks: Moving Beyond the Boundary Dispute?
The 15th round of talks between the Chinese and Indian Special Representatives on the boundary dispute suggests a desire to minimize the role of the dispute in bilateral ties and to move discussions to include regional and global issues.
Q&A: The India-China Border Conflict
Interview originally published by the World Politics Review’s Global Insider on 23 November 2011.
Integrating the Outlier: Arunachal Pradesh as Development Project and Dilemma
Arunachal Pradesh’s disputed status, unique socio-cultural makeup and difficult geographic location have elicited multifaceted responses from Indian policymakers. How has this Indian ‘development agenda’ affected and molded the political economy of Arunachal Pradesh and what does it say about the role and place of Arunachal in the Indian political system and imagination?
Thinking about China in India 