Tag: COVID-19 pandemic

• 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…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  19 September 2022

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  boundary dispute, buffer zones, Chinese foreign policy, COVID-19 pandemic, domestic politics, Indian foreign policy, Ladakh, Line of Actual Control (LAC), Narendra Modi, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Sino-Indian relations, Xi Jinping

• 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

  Jabin T. Jacob

  6 October 2021

  Foreign Policy

  BRICS, Chinese foreign policy, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Indian foreign policy, Quadrilateral Initiative, Sino-Indian relations, terrorism

• 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

  Jabin T. Jacob

  20 May 2021

  Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  Chinese foreign policy, COVID-19 pandemic, diplomacy, Indian foreign policy, media, South Asia, vaccines

• 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

  Jabin T. Jacob

  23 March 2021

  Foreign Policy

  Communist Party of China (CPC), COVID-19 pandemic, diplomacy, Sino-Indian relations, vaccines