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India’s Xinjiang Abstention: Neither Morality nor Self-Interest Clear

Originally published as ‘What national interests has India achieved by abstaining at UNHRC vote on Xinjiang?’, Moneycontrol, 14 October 2022. In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, George Smiley is asked a question about what morality was — whether it was a method or if it was “vested in the aims”. “Difficult to know what one’s aims …

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India and the CHOGM in Sri Lanka: Well Played, Actually

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made the right decision not to go to Sri Lanka

Chen Guangcheng: One Blind Man in a Tale of Two Governments

What the Chen Guangcheng case says about Sino-US relations.

Indian Democracy’s China Responsibility

The business of inspiring China and the Chinese is not one of the United States and Americans alone. India and Indians too, can step in. But let us not be caught being hypocritical or taking short-cuts, for the Chinese are watching.