Tag: Indian foreign policy

• 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…

• 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.

• India’s Response to China’s ‘one belt, one road’ Initiative

  This article looks at India’s response to China’s OBOR and the weaknesses of that response through two specific cases of Pakistan and the Indian Ocean.