Tag: infrastructure development

• China’s Conference Diplomacy: Lessons for India

  Unlike India, China understands the value of reaching out as often as possible through conferences and seminars to foreign intellectual and policy elites

• Of Perceptions and Policies

  Review of Shishir Gupta’s ‘The Himalayan Face-Off: Chinese Assertion and the Indian Riposte’

• China’s Silk Roads in South Asia: Steel in a Silken Glove

  It could well be the case that the majority of Chinese investments will materialize not in India, South Asia’s largest economy and market, but in other parts of South Asia.

• The Modi-Xi Tango: Missteps and Fluffed Lines?

  If India thinks it has a Tibet card, then it must play it more wisely, not engage in theatrics.

• Xi visits India: Great Expectations

  Modi and Xi must have the ability to overcome the hierarchy-bound nature of their official establishments to institutionalize greater and more frequent bilateral contacts

• Sino-Indian Sub-National Economic Ties: Changing the Game

  As the two countries try to improve their economic ties, much of their efforts will have to be concentrated at the sub-national level

• People-to-People Connectivity in the BCIM Region: Principles and Practicalities

  Successful people-to-people movement requires good physical and communication infrastructure and modernized identification procedures at borders or within countries

• India and China in Afghanistan: A Tangled Skein of Choices

  The post-US drawdown situation in Afghanistan throws up a number of national and regional political and security challenges for India and China.

• Infrastructure Development along India’s Borders with China

  Indian infrastructure development in its border areas is a complex mix of national security considerations, political gamesmanship and economic rent-seeking