Tag: Japan

• Ishiba Meets Trump: A Diplomatic Win for Japan Under Pressure

  Originally published as Chisako T. Masuo and Jabin T. Jacob, ‘Ishiba-Trump meet a diplomatic win for Japan’, Deccan Herald, 24 February 2025. By mid-February, United States’ new president Donald Trump had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  24 February 2025

  Foreign Policy

  Chinese foreign policy, Donald Trump, economic diplomacy, Japan, Quadrilateral Initiative, United States

• China’s Possible Approaches to the US under Joe Biden

  The new American president faces a China that believes increasingly in taking the fight to the opposition.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  31 January 2021

  Foreign Policy

  COVID-19, disinformation, domestic politics, economic relations, European Union, ideology, Japan, Joe Biden, propaganda, Sino-US relations

• Book : China’s Search for ‘National Rejuvenation’: Domestic and Foreign Policies under Xi Jinping

  Asian perspectives on China’s domestic and foreign policies

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 November 2020

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  19th Party Congress, agriculture, ASEAN, Central Asia, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Communist Party of China (CPC), International Liaison Department (ILD), Japan, North Korea, propaganda, Sino-US relations, South Asia, South China Sea disputes, South Korea, state-owned enterprises (SOEs)

• Looking Beyond China: Strengthening Bilateral Relationships in the Quad

  Quad 2.0 has proceeded more determinedly even if slowly but the Covid-19 pandemic now offers an opportunity to step up the pace. The issue now is of ensuring that Chinese pressure does not derail its development yet again.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  9 June 2020

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Australia, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Indian Ocean, Japan, MALABAR naval exercises, Quadrilateral Initiative, regional security, Sino-Indian relations, United States

• Let the Quad Die: Towards Greater Indian Leadership in the Indo-Pacific

  There is a case to be made for an India-led initiative in the Indo-Pacific that displays greater commitment to upholding international law than to ‘inclusivity’ as well as willingness to take on a wider ambit of regional responsibilities in the security and political domains

  Jabin T. Jacob

  24 July 2019

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Australia, Chinese foreign policy, containment, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific, Indonesia, international law, Japan, maritime security, Quadrilateral Initiative, Singapore, South Korea, UNCLOS, United States, Vietnam

• The Second BRI Forum: Signaling Change?

  The political, social and security implications do not look pretty for countries participating in the BRI. New Delhi might, however, consider if absolute opposition to the BRI is ultimately doing either its relationship with China or its own global image any long-term good.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  5 May 2019

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), Asia-Africa Growth Corridor, BBIN, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), economic development, external debt, Hambantota, Indian foreign policy, infrastructure development, Japan, state-owned enterprises (SOEs)

• North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Regional Reactions and the Chinese Responsibility

  Calling the North Korean regime a ‘rogue’ one only deflect attention from China’s responsibility and indirect support for nuclear proliferation

  Jabin T. Jacob

  10 February 2016

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Chinese foreign policy, economic sanctions, Japan, North Korea, nuclear proliferation, nuclear test, nuclear weapons, South Korea

• India-Japan Ties in the Sino-Japanese Mix

  Even the common ‘threat’ of China has not really helped lay the foundation for a deeper and sustainable India-Japan partnership in the politico-strategic realm.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  31 August 2014

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Chinese foreign policy, Indian foreign policy, Japan, Look East Policy, Sino-Japanese relations, World War II

• India and China’s Neighbours: Carefully Does It

  The recent visits of Indian Vice-President Hamid Ansari and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Vietnam are signs of a growing convergence of concerns that these countries have about China. But no strategic grouping can be sustainable without also developing linkages at multiple levels.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  4 February 2013

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  China threat, elite politics, Indian foreign policy, Japan, Look East Policy, Quadrilateral Initiative, racism, Sino-Indian relations, Vietnam