Wang Yi in India: Whither India’s muscular foreign policy?

New Delhi continues to under-utilise the opportunity to revise and reset its China policy that the Chinese transgressions in eastern Ladakh provided nearly two years ago.

Assessing India’ China Policy in 2021

It appears that the Indian government lacks the political will to deal with China firmly and unambiguously

To Be or Not to Be? BRICS and India’s Confused Signalling on China

China forces India to bend to the lowest standards possible in terms of democracy and accountability — which is to say to Chinese standards

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

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Promise and Responsibility

Asian nations, many of which got rid of imperialism only a few decades ago, will not want to replace Western dominance with Chinese political and economic hegemony.

The BRICS Challenge: Converting Rhetoric to Leadership

Can the BRICS really be an effective, united and leading voice in the global economy? Is the BRICS grouping a challenge to the existing Western-dominated global order? The Fourth BRICS Summit that concluded in Delhi in late February has not quite answered these larger questions.

Emerging Regional Architectures in Asia

In the case of Russia-India-China trilateral, the domestic political orientation of each country contributes fundamentally to its perceptions and views of the objectives and functions of regional organizations.

Of Strategic Dialogues and Talk-shops

Empty plaudits for multilateralism and championing a multi-polar world cannot hide the fact that New Delhi’s current method of engagement with China avoids the intense domestic public scrutiny that comes from a sustained high-level and exclusive dialogue with Beijing.