Tag: Indian foreign policy

• 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…

• Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis: The Chinese Model in Operation

  The unrest created by the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka has now resulted in the imposition of a political emergency over the island. The causes for the crisis are many and China has been criticised regularly in recent years for being at least partially responsible for Sri Lanka’s ballooning external debt and for the…

• China exploits Wang Yi’s India visit to its advantage

  The Indian government allowed the Chinese envoy to grandstand and sell China’s narratives to the rest of the world

• India must beware of Chinese reassurances

  Always expressing optimism about the India-China relationship no matter what the circumstances is something of a standard operating procedure for Chinese interlocutors

• Signalling a Shift? Parsing the Indian Statement of the 13th India-China Corps Commander Level Meeting 

  If indeed, there is a rethink underway on the Indiangovernment’s approach to China on the LAC, it is about time.

• To Be or Not to Be? BRICS and India’s Confused Signalling on China

  China forces India to bend to the lowest standards possible in terms of democracy and accountability — which is to say to Chinese standards

• From Akshayapatra to Begging Bowl

  India’s poor response to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic will also have wider foreign policy ramifications for the country