Tag: Indian foreign policy

• Rethinking India’s Relations with China

  

  Nearly six years after the Galwan Valley clash in June 2020, India-China relations appear to be entering a phase of cautious recovery. A series of recent developments—ranging from the relaxation of trade restrictions to renewed diplomatic engagement and incremental progress on border management—have prompted claims that bilateral ties are back on an “upward trajectory”…

• Why China is building villages near LAC

  

  ON March 26, China’s State Council announced the creation of a new county — equivalent to a district-level administrative unit in the Chinese political-administrative system — in Xinjiang, called Cenling…

• India’s China policy at a crossroads

  

  The irony is that this ‘normalisation’ of ties with China is not one that is the result of hard bargains or one that showcases any advantages for India

• Delhi’s multilateralism plank needs tweaking

  

  Differences between India and China are now at the heart of their interactions in multilateral institutions and, thus, of geopolitics

• Cooperative Federalism Essential for India’s China Policy

  

  Balanced India-China economic relations cannot happen without balanced centre-state relations in India..

• Doval-Wang SR Talks: Back to the Grind

  Originally published as, ‘Two steps forward, one step back’, The Indian Express, 21 December 2024. p.11. Published online as ‘On India-China ties, Delhi takes one step forward, two steps back’. While Indian statements on the bilateral relationship with China are exercises in brevity, Chinese statements are more expansive by comparison. Taken together, however, they provide…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…