The Indian Prime Minister’s visit to Bangladesh in June 2015 did not go unnoticed in China and Beijing is working on countering its effects.
Tag Archives: Chinese foreign policy
China’s 2015 Defence White Paper: Military Strategy Meets Foreign Policy
Has Beijing reached a stage where it is willing to face crisis and/or conflict instead of preventing these in the first place?
The Why of China’s Actions in the South China Sea
China is trying to create a ‘moral code’ for its foreign policy activity but this code is also founded on a sense of national exceptionalism
China and Vietnam: Neither Thick Friends nor Constant Antagonists
There is a tripwire of caution built into the Sino-Vietnamese relationship, perhaps more so, on the Vietnamese side.
The Bandung Conference at 60: Redeeming Unfulfilled Promises
India and China as the Third World’s most populous, powerful and technologically-advanced nations, have the greater responsibility to drive Afro-Asian unity
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
Regional Hegemony or Peaceful Rise? China’s New Silk Roads and the Asia-Pacific
China’s regional ambitions do tend toward hegemony that is both similar to and different from that of the United States in the region
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.
China’s New Silk Roads: Reinterpreting History
The so-called ‘sound historical basis’ that Chinese commentators seem to find for the Maritime Silk Road might not be all that sound. It might just as well be called the Maritime Spice Route.