Tag: ‘informal summit’

• A Third Term For Xi Jinping Holds Little Assurance For India

  Originally published at BQ Prime, 22 October 2022. India has several reasons to pay close attention to the ongoing 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).  As a neighbour to China and as a country of similar size of population and length of history, it would be natural for India to assume…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  22 October 2022

  Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  ‘informal summit’, 20th CPC Congress, anti-terrorism, Arunachal Pradesh, boundary dispute, Communist Party of China (CPC), Ladakh, Line of Actual Control (LAC), Sino-Indian relations, Tibet, United States

• Covid-19 Introduces New Tensions in India-China Relations

  With the COVID-19 pandemic, the name “Wuhan” has become much better known in India than it ever was for the April 2018 informal summit between Modi and Xi in that city. It remains to be seen which of these two legacies from Wuhan will last in India-China relations.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  26 May 2020

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘informal summit’, Andaman & Nicobar, anti-terrorism, Arunachal Pradesh, Chinese investments, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), COVID-19, Indian Army, Kashmir, Narendra Modi, Pakistan, Tibet, Xi Jinping

• Foreign Minister Jaishankar’s Ramnath Goenka Lecture: Countering Dogma with Still More Dogma

  The pragmatic realism of the kind that the Indian foreign minister appeared to promote at the lecture actually falls short where China is concerned.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  30 November 2019

  Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  ‘informal summit’, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India-China relations, India-Pakistan relations, Indian bureaucracy, Indian foreign policy, Indian Foreign Service (IFS), worldview

• Vacuous Summitry

  Structural problems between India and China are unlikely to be resolved by two leaders having ‘informal’ dialogues or meetings without agendas.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  18 October 2019

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘informal summit’, 5G, Chennai informal summit, Committee on External Affairs of the 16th Lok Sabha, Doklam, Huawei, India-China relations, Jammu and Kashmir, Masood Azhar, Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), Pakistan, trade deficit, UN Security Council, Wuhan informal summit

• Is It Asia’s Moment, Yet?

  Asia witnessed two major summits in the last week of April – between Kim Jong-un of North Korea and Moon Jae-in of South Korea in Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone between the two countries, and between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuhan, China. Arguably, it was the meeting between…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 May 2018

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘informal summit’, Asian century, Asian values, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, hegemony, new tianxia, North Korea, one belt, one road’ (OBOR) / ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI), pan-Asianism, protectionism, Rabindranath Tagore, Sino-Indian relations, South Korea

• Modi-Xi ‘Informal Summit’: Misplaced Hopes

  China has many ways of affecting Indian politics. Indeed, an India-China ‘reset’, as envisaged by the Narendra Modi government and represented by the “informal summit” between Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, has the very strong domestic context of several major state-level elections later this year and the…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  28 April 2018

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘informal summit’, boundary dispute, Chinese investments, Deng Xiaoping, economic relations, Narendra Modi, one belt, one road’ (OBOR) / ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI), protectionism, Rajiv Gandhi, Sino-Indian relations, trade deficit, Xi Jinping