China under Xi Jinping is engaged in a long-term but steady strategy of trying to isolate Taiwan diplomatically and constrain its international space
Tag Archives: Communist Party of China (CPC)
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
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.
Taiwan’s 9-in-1 Election Results: Warning for the KMT-CPC Relationship
The end-November local election results on Taiwan suggest that China will have to both rethink the scope and recalibrate the pace of its embrace of the island
4th Plenum: Towards Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics
The Decision of the 4th Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC is arguing that there is no one-size fits-all approach to democracy or governance
Hong Kong’s Occupy Central: Of Democracy, ‘Law’, and Identity
What are the Hong Kong protests about and how do they impact developments elsewhere in China’s periphery and within the country itself? What link do the protests have with India?
China and Narendra Modi
Does Narendra Modi’s decisive electoral victory hold significance for Chinese domestic politics? And what is China’s approach going to be to Prime Minister Modi?
Thinking about China in India 