Tag: India-Pakistan relations

• Two Years After Border Clashes, India Still Lacks a Coherent China Policy

  Originally published at World Politics Review, 13 July 2022. It has been over two years since Chinese incursions in the summer of 2020 along the disputed India-China boundary in eastern Ladakh led to a series of skirmishes that left dozens of soldiers dead on both sides. Yet unlike a February 2019 confrontation with Pakistan, which…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  13 July 2022

  Foreign Policy

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Doklam, Hambantota, India-Pakistan relations, Indian foreign policy, Ladakh, Line of Actual Control (LAC), Narendra Modi, Quadrilateral Initiative, Russia-Ukraine crisis, S. Jaishankar, Taiwan, Tibetan government-in-exile, Wang Yi, Xi Jinping

• Foreign Minister Jaishankar’s Ramnath Goenka Lecture: Countering Dogma with Still More Dogma

  The pragmatic realism of the kind that the Indian foreign minister appeared to promote at the lecture actually falls short where China is concerned.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  30 November 2019

  Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  ‘informal summit’, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India-China relations, India-Pakistan relations, Indian bureaucracy, Indian foreign policy, Indian Foreign Service (IFS), worldview

• India-China Relations: Running on Empty

  The Indian and Chinese governments have set their ties a very low bar of achievement talking essentially soft issues like cultural exchanges which are low-hanging fruit but which are unlikely to help repair in a hurry the high degree of bilateral political mistrust

  Jabin T. Jacob

  10 September 2019

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy

  Chinese foreign policy, India-Pakistan relations, Jammu and Kashmir, Luo Zhaohui, Pakistan, propaganda, racism, S. Jaishankar, Sun Weidong

• China and National Security – the BJP’s 2019 Election Manifesto

  What does the election manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party say about China in national security terms?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  13 May 2019

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  Act East Policy, Asia-Africa Growth Corridor, BBIN, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress (I), India-Pakistan relations, Indian foreign policy, military modernization, nuclear weapons, Sino-Indian relations

• China-Pakistan Bus Service through PoK: Complaining is Easy

  New Delhi should incentivize its border communities by believing in and building on their central role in history as entrepreneurs and diplomats.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  12 November 2018

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism

  border trade, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Gilgit-Baltistan, India-Pakistan relations, Jammu and Kashmir, Kargil, Leh, Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, physical connectivity, Tibet, Xinjiang

• Economic Complications in the Naya China-Pakistan Relationship

  A smart, forward-looking Indian leadership should not pass up the opportunity to increase economic linkages with Pakistan, and provide the latter an alternative to China.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  28 September 2018

  Comparative Politics, Political Parties, Sub-nationalism

  China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), economic cooperation, external debt, Imran Khan, India-Pakistan relations, Pakistan Army