Tag: centre-province relations

• Cooperative Federalism Essential for India’s China Policy

  Balanced India-China economic relations cannot happen without balanced centre-state relations in India

  Jabin T. Jacob

  13 March 2025

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, Sub-nationalism

  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), centre-province relations, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese provinces, Communist Party of China (CPC), Indian foreign policy, Indian states, International Department CPC, Sino-Indian relations

• A litany of economic woes but in China politics rules

  Originally published at 9DashLine, 24 August 2022. The list of problems the Chinese economy faces is long. A rural banking collapse in Henan province has affected deposits worth billions of dollars, including the life’s savings of several customers.[1] Chinese property developers have defaulted to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars[2] as a result…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  24 August 2022

  Political Parties, Sub-nationalism

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), centralisation, centre-province relations, Chinese economy, climate change, Communist Party of China (CPC), COVID-19, property sector, tech sector, zero-Covid strategy

• An Opportunity to Rethink India’s Economic Policies

  How is it that the Indian government is talking of the ‘strategic disinvestment’ of its PSUs while the Chinese have converted their own into world-beating ‘champions’ with stakes across the globe?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  19 August 2020

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism

  boundary dispute, centre-province relations, economic relations, economic sanctions, Indian economy, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), technology

• 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

• Indian States and Foreign Policy: Lessons from Chinese Provinces

  

  Originally published as Jabin T. Jacob, ‘China’s Provinces and Foreign Policy: Lessons and Implications for India and its States’ in Subir Bhaumik (ed.), Agartala Doctrine: A Proactive Northeast in India Foreign Policy (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 253-70. Extracts Even without their rising world profiles as a starting point, it has long been a…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  13 September 2016

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism

  border trade, centre-province relations, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese investments, Chinese provinces, economic integration, federalism, Indian foreign policy, Indian states, Sino-Indian relations, trade and economy

• China’s 2014 NPC: Long Road to Economic Restructuring

  Even as India’s 15th Lok Sabha ended its tenure with the reputation of having conducted the least business among all its predecessors, in China, the NPC has become increasingly active

  Jabin T. Jacob

  15 March 2014

  Comparative Politics, Political Parties

  centre-province relations, Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC), Communist Party of China (CPC), economic growth, economic reforms, Li Keqiang, local government debt, migrant workers, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), urbanization

• Centre-Province Relations in Contemporary China

  Stronger and more autonomous provincial economies have in the reform era, led to increasingly assertive provincial governments but to assume this has come entirely at the expense of the central government would be a mistake.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  28 June 2013

  Political Parties, Sub-nationalism

  centre-province relations, Chinese cities, Chinese constitution, Chinese provinces, Communist Party of China (CPC), economic development, economic integration, economic regions, fiscal reforms

• Issues and Considerations in Connectivity Projects in the BCIM Region

  There are several lessons to be drawn from the implementation of physical connectivity infrastructure projects in the underdeveloped sub-region where the borders of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and China meet

  Jabin T. Jacob

  28 February 2013

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism

  Asian regionalism, Bangladesh, BCIM, border management, border security, centre-province relations, Champhai, economic development, environment, financing, Indian states, infrastructure development, inter-governmental coordination, inter-ministerial conflict, Kaladan project, migration, Mizoram, Moreh, Myanmar, regional connectivity, trade facilitation, Zokawthar

• The States in Indian Foreign Policy

  This presentation focuses on one particular aspect of centre-province relations in India – the nature of influence that Indian provinces (or States) exercise on national foreign policymaking.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  31 August 2011

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, Sub-nationalism, War and Conflict

  Africa, ASEAN, centre-province relations, Chinese provinces, economic reforms, federalism, Gujarat, Indian states, Kashmir, Kerala, Northeast India, Pakistan, Punjab, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu