While India had good reasons to boycott China’s showcase event in Beijing, it might nevertheless have missed an opportunity to convey its concerns in a more forceful and public manner.
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Sheikh Hasina’s Visit to India: China in the Background
China is turning into a serious challenger to India in Bangladesh in the economic and military domains and is growing in strength in the political dimension, too.
When Religion and Politics Mix: The Dalai Lama and India-China Relations
There is no real Tibet card for New Delhi to play and India ignores its own Buddhists while supporting the Dalai Lama.
China in Central Asia: Myth-making and Foreign Policy
India needs to give Ladakh greater agency in order to ensure that this region can function as its pivot to Central Asia and to challenge Chinese domination there.
How India Deals with its China Challenge
The Chinese have learnt that a country’s foreign and security policies abroad are only as good as the strength of its structures and systems at home
1962: A Very Particular View
Review of Shiv Kunal Verma’s ‘1962: The War That Wasn’t’
India-Taiwan Relations: Promise Unfulfilled
India-Taiwan relations lack both ambition and creativity and suffer from not a little pusillanimity.
Indian States and Foreign Policy: Lessons from Chinese Provinces
Originally published as Jabin T. Jacob, ‘China’s Provinces and Foreign Policy: Lessons and Implications for India and its States’ in Subir Bhaumik (ed.), Agartala Doctrine: A Proactive Northeast in India Foreign Policy (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 253-70. Extracts Even without their rising world profiles as a starting point, it has long been a …
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Chinese Provinces and Nepal: The Case of Tibet Autonomous Region
China appears to be using its provinces such as Tibet, Yunnan and Sichuan to exercise influence in a different, apparently less threatening way in Nepal.
Thinking about China in India 