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China’s Reactions to India’s Attack on Balakot, Pakistan
China professions of neutrality in South Asia cannot be taken seriously and are, in fact, attempts to create a false sense of equivalence between India and Pakistan.
Chinese Defence Minister’s Visit: To What End for India?
Instead of half-baked attempts at military diplomacy, India should impart greater clarity of expression and purpose to its military relationship with China. Is China a ‘strategic partner’ or a ‘strategic competitor’? Or both?
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’
Of Perceptions and Policies
Review of Shishir Gupta’s ‘The Himalayan Face-Off: Chinese Assertion and the Indian Riposte’
China Policy in India: For a Revolution in Mindsets
What is urgently required is for Indian strategy to move from reliance on the brilliance or charisma of individuals to the solidity of processes and institutions.
Thinking about China in India 