Tag: maritime disputes

• China-Taiwan crisis: Implications and options for Japan

  Co-authored with Chisako T. Masuo and originally published at India Today, 9 August 2022. It would be easy to portray the tensions generated by the visit of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan as something largely involving the US and China; sometimes, even the Taiwanese are not considered as part of the…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  9 August 2022

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  East China Sea, maritime disputes, maritime security, Senkaku/Diaoyutai, Sino-Japanese relations, Taiwan

• China and the Modi Visit to Bangladesh

  The Indian Prime Minister’s visit to Bangladesh in June 2015 did not go unnoticed in China and Beijing is working on countering its effects.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  10 September 2015

  Foreign Policy

  Bangladesh, boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Indian foreign policy, international law, maritime disputes, Southeast Asia

• To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

  There is debate within China on whether the country is truly ready to take up a more active political role internationally and whether in the rush to get involved, it might not end up damaging its long-term interests.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  14 March 2012

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Chinese foreign policy, defence budget, global economic crisis, intervention, Libya, maritime disputes, PLA, Southeast Asia, Syria