When democracies fail at upholding their values that might be a more consequential image problem than anything the Chinese will have to worry about.
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India, China and their Accelerating Cold Wars
Chinese transgressions along the LAC indicate a significant breakdown of long-standing bilateral agreements and can be considered a tipping point. The situation will likely result in a variegated set of cold wars between India and China.
Reorienting India’s China Policy Towards Greater Transparency
The deaths of Indian soldiers along the LAC at Galwan is a watershed moment in India-China ties. If the relationship is not to spin out of control, India needs to develop military, economic and intellectual muscle certainly but also adopt transparency and openness to questions as a central plank of the reworking of its China policy.
Why a post-COVID-19 global order led by China is only a distant threat
The world order might require changing but China is not going to be able to take leadership for political and economic reasons
Chinese Views of India’s Elections: Watch and Disparage
India’s democracy and its largely free and fair elections and the uncertainties they throw up, strongly challenge the ideas China’s communists have about order and stability, of ‘harmony’ in society and politics as represented by one-party rule.
On Democratic Space and Aggressive Foreign Policy
There is a connection between the clampdown on freedoms and increasing emphasis on the centrality of the CPC on one hand and China’s foreign policy assertiveness and willingness to undermine current international order on the other.
The Rising Chinese Challenge to Order and Politics Everywhere
For democracies to compete with the Chinese model, they will have to ensure both economic and social well-being and political accountability.
Modi’s Indonesia Visit: China in the Mix
How Indian and Indonesian leaders promote and support true federalism, equality in inter-ethnic relations, religious freedoms and civil and political rights as well as manage class differences and conflict at home will have consequences for China
Is It Asia’s Moment, Yet?
Asia witnessed two major summits in the last week of April – between Kim Jong-un of North Korea and Moon Jae-in of South Korea in Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone between the two countries, and between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuhan, China. Arguably, it was the meeting between …
Thinking about China in India 