Tag: ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR)
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Missing Opportunities: India and OBOR
By refusing to engage with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, India’s policymakers are letting go of opportunities to shape and influence events in its two largest neighbours
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Boxing It In: China’s Approach to India
China appears to believe that India’s unfriendliness and lack of capacity mean that it has to and can be tied down to South Asia
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Interview: China Balances Assertiveness and Diplomacy
China walks a fine line balancing its assertiveness in the South China Sea with promoting economic cooperation through its ‘new Silk Roads’ initiative
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Chinese Provinces and Nepal: The Case of Tibet Autonomous Region
China appears to be using its provinces such as Tibet, Yunnan and Sichuan to exercise influence in a different, apparently less threatening way in Nepal.
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India’s Response to China’s ‘one belt, one road’ Initiative
This article looks at India’s response to China’s OBOR and the weaknesses of that response through two specific cases of Pakistan and the Indian Ocean.
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Using China as Leverage with Pakistan
India has ignored the possibilities that China offers as a pressure point on Pakistan
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Responding to China’s New Silk Roads Initiative
Where India’s China analysts and policymakers across two different political dispensations have been remiss, is in anticipating the ambition and scale of the Chinese initiative
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Interpreting Prime Minister Modi’s China Approach
Originally published as ‘Interpreting Modispeak on China’, The Hindu (Chennai), 14 May 2015. As Indian Prime Ministers and political leaders go, Narendra Modi is unique in possessing some significant experience of that country before attaining office. In fact, despite – or perhaps, because of – the differences in world views and how he has gone about understanding…
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China’s ‘New Tianxia’ and the Indian Response
The fundamental weakness in India’s response to Chinese diplomatic initiatives is its lack of human resources capacity within and outside the Indian government.
Thinking about China in India 