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?

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.