Tag: infrastructure development

• 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.

• Tsai Ing-wen’s Visit to Central America

  Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen is both pragmatic and a realist as she manoeuvres to preserve her country’s diplomatic space and values.

• India-Taiwan Relations: Promise Unfulfilled

  India-Taiwan relations lack both ambition and creativity and suffer from not a little pusillanimity.

• 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.

• India, China and the Yarlung Tsangpo: Much Ado About Nothing?

  China’s operationalization of the Zangmu hydropower station on the Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra must be seen in the context of environmental developments elsewhere in the country.

• Arunachal Pradesh in the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute: Constant Claims, Changing Politics

  The persistent Sino-Indian boundary dispute needs to be seen within the framework of centre-periphery relations in China and India and well as of their different political systems.

• China Courts the Maldives

  China is using tourism and infrastructure development to reel the Maldives into its orbit of influence.

• Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Promise and Responsibility

  Asian nations, many of which got rid of imperialism only a few decades ago, will not want to replace Western dominance with Chinese political and economic hegemony.

• Sino-Sri Lankan Ties post-Rajapaksa

  China-Sri Lanka ties will continue to grow. New Delhi, meanwhile, needs to show greater purpose in its own dealings with its island neighbour