The Chinese have learnt that a country’s foreign and security policies abroad are only as good as the strength of its structures and systems at home
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China and North Korea: A Convenient Arrangement
Denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula does not progress because Beijing sees North Korea as a greater threat not to itself but to China’s adversaries
1962: A Very Particular View
Review of Shiv Kunal Verma’s ‘1962: The War That Wasn’t’
India-Taiwan Relations: Promise Unfulfilled
India-Taiwan relations lack both ambition and creativity and suffer from not a little pusillanimity.
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 …
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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.
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.
North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Regional Reactions and the Chinese Responsibility
Calling the North Korean regime a ‘rogue’ one only deflect attention from China’s responsibility and indirect support for nuclear proliferation
China Courts the Maldives
China is using tourism and infrastructure development to reel the Maldives into its orbit of influence.
Thinking about China in India 