Tag: maritime security

• 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

• 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

• Modi’s Indonesia Visit: China in the Mix

  How Indian and Indonesian leaders promote and support true federalism, equality in inter-ethnic relations, religious freedoms and civil and political rights as well as manage class differences and conflict at home will have consequences for China

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 July 2018

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy

  Act East Policy, democracy, federalism, Indian foreign policy, Indonesia, infrastructure development, maritime security, military cooperation, one road’ (OBOR) / ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI), Project Mausam, SAGAR

• China and its Neighbourhood: Perspectives from India and Vietnam

  Jabin T. Jacob and Hoang The Anh (editors), China and Its Neighbourhood: Perspectives from India and Vietnam (New Delhi: Pentagon, 2017).

  Jabin T. Jacob

  21 September 2017

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

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), ASEAN, Asian regionalism, Cambodia, Chinese economy, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Part of Vietnam, Communist Party of China (CPC), FTA, Indian foreign policy, maritime security, Mekong, Mongolia, Pakistan, Quadrilateral Initiative, Sino-Vietnamese relations, Trans-Pacific Partnership

• China Courts the Maldives

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

  Jabin T. Jacob

  12 September 2015

  Foreign Policy

  Chinese foreign policy, infrastructure development, Maldives, maritime security, Maritime Silk Road, tourism

• A Framework for Understanding Sino-Indian Ties

  What framework can we use to understand the current Sino-Indian relationship?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  5 November 2013

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese media, economic relations, global order, Indian foreign policy, Indian media, Indian states, infrastructure development, maritime security, people-to-people contacts, regional integration

• Sino-Indian Military CBMs: Efficacy and Influences

  What is the state of current military CBMs between India and China?How have these held up to the pressures of recent years?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 November 2013

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  1962 Sino-Indian conflict, anti-terrorism, boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Indian foreign policy, Line of Actual Control (LAC), maritime security, nuclear weapons, Sino-Indian relations

• Hillary Clinton’s India Visit: Chinese Elephant in the Room

  If “much of the history of the 21st century will be written in Asia”, then New Delhi will need to find the energy and resources to focus not just on its troubled western frontiers but also on its sprawling and diverse eastern neighbourhood.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  21 September 2011

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Afghanistan, Asian century, Australia, democracy, India-Japan-US trilateral, Indo-US relations, Indonesia, Japan, Look East Policy, maritime security, Myanmar, Quadrilateral Initiative, Sino-Indian relations, Sino-US relations, South China Sea disputes, strategic partnership, Vietnam

• Interpreting China’s Defense White Paper 2011

  Understanding China’s military capabilities alone is not enough, India must also understand its intentions and for this a better grasp of the intersections of the political and military in China is essential.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  17 September 2011

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Afghanistan, Communist Party of China (CPC), maritime security, military modernization, MOOTW, non-proliferation, PLA, PLAN