Tag: domestic politics

• 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

• China’s Possible Approaches to the US under Joe Biden

  The new American president faces a China that believes increasingly in taking the fight to the opposition.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  31 January 2021

  Foreign Policy

  COVID-19, disinformation, domestic politics, economic relations, European Union, ideology, Japan, Joe Biden, propaganda, Sino-US relations

• The Many Instruments of Chinese Foreign Policy

  India will need to match China with a capable and expanded foreign service working in coordination with political parties, business communities, intellectual elites and its diaspora but also display adherence to values that are genuinely attractive to the peoples of other nations to push an ‘Indian model’ of politics and development that can challenge the…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  8 October 2019

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Communist Party of China (CPC), diaspora, domestic politics, International Liaison Department (ILD), Nepal, propaganda, South Asia, United Front Work Department (UFWD), Xi Jinping

• Listing Masood Azhar as Global Terrorist: China Helps India to a Pyrrhic Victory

  The eventual listing of Masood Azhar as an international terrorist at the UN is as much a ‘big diplomatic win’ for China as for India – after all, Beijing prevented New Delhi from achieving the objective for ten years.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  11 May 2019

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  anti-terrorism, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Chinese foreign policy, domestic politics, elections, Indian foreign policy, Masood Azhar, UNSC 1267 Committee

• The Search for a Chinese Model of International Relations

  The contradictions evident in China’s neighbourhood foreign policy reflect its continuing search for a model of international relations that can balance its domestic interests and external ambitions.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  5 January 2013

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ASEAN, Chinese nationalism, domestic politics, foreign policy, international relations, South Asia, South China Sea disputes, Southeast Asia, UNCLOS