Tag: Indian foreign policy

• 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…

• China’s Undeclared Competition with India in Regional and Global Institutions

  India-China bilateral relations are at their most difficult point in decades. China violated a host of bilateral treaties when it conducted a series of incursions across the Eastern section of the disputed India China boundary in the summer of 2020. In one particular clash, 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese soldiers were killed…

• India can’t afford to ignore China challenge

  AS WE IN India enter another election season, it is also an opportunity to draw attention to the challenges that China poses to our national security interests. If one were to pick just the last fortnight, there are at least three developments that draw attention to the inadequacy of India’s responses, or of its relative…

• Time for India to be proactive on China

  APRIL MARKS FOUR years since the Chinese initiated a series of transgressions all along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh eventually leading to the Galwan Valley clash in June 2020. As India gears up for national elections, it is also an occasion to assess the Indian response and implications for its foreign…

• China and India’s Intense Contest for Influence

  

  UNDER A NEW defense cooperation agreement with the Maldives, China is set to offer free military assistance to the island nation. Coming soon after the presidential order to remove Indian naval personnel from the Maldives and after a so-called Chinese research vessel visited Malé, the agreement is no doubt a provocation to India…

• India is not stepping up to the challenge of countering China

  

  t should be easy for the world to criticise China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has completed 10 years. Consider its record, for one. Several countries have realised the Chinese often promised a lot more than they delivered while yet other while yet others — Pakistan and Sri Lanka, in India’s neighbourhood — also…

• New Delhi’s approach to multilateral ties needs clarity

  

  THE CANADIAN DIRECTOR of global communications at the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has resigned, alleging that the bank is influenced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Canadian government has frozen ties with the bank and launched an investigation. India, which has participated in Chinese-led economic organisations, should rethink its involvement, given the…

• Central Asia needs greater attention from Indian policymakers

  

  INDIA’S HOSTING OF the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meetings of defence and foreign ministers in April and in May as part of its presidency of the grouping is an occasion to consider afresh India’s influence in the region. Naturally, this influence must be measured…

• India needs to rethink its China strategy at LAC

  

  A confidential research paper presented during a mid-January conference of the top police leadership in India has suggested that skirmishes along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China will ‘get frequent’…