Tag: Communist Party of China (CPC)

• Explaining the India-China Standoff at Doklam: Causes and Implications

  ‘Explaining the India-China Standoff at Doklam: Causes and Implications’, Aakrosh, Vol. 20, No. 77, October 2017, pp. 60-76. Extract: In mid-June 2017, India and China began a long standoff in the Doklam area of Bhutan that came to an end only in late August. The crisis originated when a Chinese road-building party moved into an…

• China and its Neighbourhood: Perspectives from India and Vietnam

  Jabin T. Jacob and Hoang The Anh (editors), China and Its Neighbourhood: Perspectives from India and Vietnam (New Delhi: Pentagon, 2017).

• The Doklam Standoff and After: Whither India-China Relations?

  What explains China’s high-decibel campaign of vilification against India in the wake of the Doklam standoff?

• In the Wake of Doklam: India-China Relations Entering a New Phase

  The basic principle of standing up to China’s bullying behaviour must be clear and unadulterated coming from India. In the long run only this will prevent more such incidents as Doklam.

• India-China Standoff in Bhutan: Explanation and Prognosis

  It should not surprise Indian defence planners if the Chinese test and prod the Indian military by opening up road-building, patrolling and other forms of activity in areas along the disputed boundary that have hitherto remained dormant or not seen any such activity at all.

• Panama Switches Diplomatic Recognition from Taiwan to China

  China under Xi Jinping is engaged in a long-term but steady strategy of trying to isolate Taiwan diplomatically and constrain its international space

• India-Taiwan Relations: Promise Unfulfilled

  India-Taiwan relations lack both ambition and creativity and suffer from not a little pusillanimity.

• 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