Originally published as ‘Vikram Misri’s Beijing visit underlines India’s limited options’, Deccan Herald, 4 February 2025. At the end of January, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri visited China in the latest step in an unfolding thaw in the bilateral relationship. It should be clear, however, from the statements put out by each side on the meeting …
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New India-China Patrolling Agreement: More Questions from Kazan
Originally published as, ‘Path to normalisation of India-China ties not easy’, Deccan Herald, 26 October 2024. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held “their first proper bilateral meeting at delegation level in nearly five years” on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia.[1] Coming in the wake of an announcement earlier …
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A Patrolling Agreement and Some Questions
Originally published as ‘An agreement, some questions’ The Indian Express, 23 October 2024. p.11. Published online as ‘India-China agreement is welcome — but we don’t know enough’. Indian Foreign Secretary Vikrim Misri announced on Monday that India and China had reached “an agreement … on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control…leading to disengagement …
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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 …
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A Significant Non-Meeting: Modi and Xi at Samarkand
Originally published as ‘Samarkand SCO: Significance of the Modi-Xi non-meeting’, Moneycontrol, 19 September 2022. Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not meet one-on-one with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan on the sidelines of the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) Council of Heads of State. At least there is no publicly shared evidence of the meeting …
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Two Years After Border Clashes, India Still Lacks a Coherent China Policy
Originally published at World Politics Review, 13 July 2022. It has been over two years since Chinese incursions in the summer of 2020 along the disputed India-China boundary in eastern Ladakh led to a series of skirmishes that left dozens of soldiers dead on both sides. Yet unlike a February 2019 confrontation with Pakistan, which …
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China exploits Wang Yi’s India visit to its advantage
The Indian government allowed the Chinese envoy to grandstand and sell China’s narratives to the rest of the world
India must beware of Chinese reassurances
Always expressing optimism about the India-China relationship no matter what the circumstances is something of a standard operating procedure for Chinese interlocutors
Assessing India’ China Policy in 2021
It appears that the Indian government lacks the political will to deal with China firmly and unambiguously
Thinking about China in India 