COVID-19 pandemic – Thinking about China in India

A Significant Non-Meeting: Modi and Xi at Samarkand

Originally published as ‘Samarkand SCO: Significance of the Modi-Xi non-meeting’, Moneycontrol, 19 September 2022. Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not meet one-on-one with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan on the sidelines of the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) Council of Heads of State. At least there is no publicly shared evidence of the meeting …

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To Be or Not to Be? BRICS and India’s Confused Signalling on China

China forces India to bend to the lowest standards possible in terms of democracy and accountability — which is to say to Chinese standards

From Akshayapatra to Begging Bowl

India’s poor response to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic will also have wider foreign policy ramifications for the country

China’s Vaccine Diplomacy and India

Beijing’s insistence on the world accepting China-made vaccines is a symptom of the insecurity and siege mentality of the Communist Party of China