Tag: Chinese military

• Chinese Defence Minister’s Visit: To What End for India?

  Instead of half-baked attempts at military diplomacy, India should impart greater clarity of expression and purpose to its military relationship with China. Is China a ‘strategic partner’ or a ‘strategic competitor’? Or both?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  3 September 2018

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  border incursions, Chinese military, diplomacy, India-China relations, Indian military, Line of Actual Control (LAC), military CBMs, military reforms

• Sheikh Hasina’s Visit to India: China in the Background

  China is turning into a serious challenger to India in Bangladesh in the economic and military domains and is growing in strength in the political dimension, too.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  10 April 2017

  Foreign Policy

  Bangladesh, Chinese military, Indian foreign policy, infrastructure development, PLA, PLA Navy

• How India Deals with its China Challenge

  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

  Jabin T. Jacob

  27 February 2017

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  1962 Sino-Indian conflict, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese military, grand strategy, Indian bureaucracy, Indian foreign policy, Indian military, Kashmir, Line of Actual Control (LAC)

• 1962: A Very Particular View

  Review of Shiv Kunal Verma’s ‘1962: The War That Wasn’t’

  Jabin T. Jacob

  27 January 2017

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  1962 Sino-Indian conflict, Arunachal Pradesh, boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese military, Indian foreign policy, Indian military, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ladakh, Line of Actual Control (LAC), prisoners of war (POW), Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Sino-Indian relations, Tibet, VK Krishna Menon