Tag: human rights

• 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…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  14 October 2022

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy

  Chinese foreign policy, ethnic policy, human rights, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Sino-Indian relations, UN Human Rights Council, UN Security Council, Uyghur, Xinjiang

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

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

  Jabin T. Jacob

  15 November 2013

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, Sub-nationalism

  coalition politics, democracy, ethno-nationalism, human rights, Indian foreign policy, Indian states, multilateral organizations, Sino-Indian relations, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu

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

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

  Jabin T. Jacob

  16 May 2012

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  Chen Guangcheng, civil rights, human rights, ideology, US elections

• 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.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  19 September 2011

  Comparative Politics, War and Conflict

  anti-corruption, civil liberties, civil society, democracy, Dr. Dwarakanath Kotnis, FCRA, human rights, Pakistan, people-to-people contacts, Sepoy Mutiny 1857, Sino-Indian relations, Taiping Rebellion