Tag: military CBMs

• Chinese Defence Minister’s Visit: To What End for India?

  Instead of half-baked attempts at military diplomacy, India should impart greater clarity of expression and purpose to its military relationship with China. Is China a ‘strategic partner’ or a ‘strategic competitor’? Or both?

  Jabin T. Jacob

  3 September 2018

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  border incursions, Chinese military, diplomacy, India-China relations, Indian military, Line of Actual Control (LAC), military CBMs, military reforms

• Xi Meets Modi: A Historic Opportunity for Sino-Indian Leadership

  Sino-Indian relations are at a new juncture. Modi and Xi must together summon the vision and statesmanship needed to grab the opportunity thus provided.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  19 September 2014

  Borders, Foreign Policy

  Chinese provinces, economic development, great power politics, Indian foreign policy, Indian states, military CBMs, people-to-people contacts, Silk Roads strategy, Sino-Indian relations

• Military CBMs, Bilateral Agreements and the Sino-Indian Relationship

  This essay examines the key agreements concluded between India and China in the post-Cold War era with implications for their boundary dispute and bilateral military CBMs.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  2 November 2013

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  1962 Sino-Indian conflict, boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Indian foreign policy, infrastructure development, Line of Actual Control (LAC), military CBMs, military modernization, Sino-Indian boundary negotiations, Sino-Indian relations, strategic partnership, Tibet

• The Ladakh Stand-off: What it Says (or Doesn’t) about China’s India Policy and India’s China Policy

  While the Ladakh incident was eventually resolved by a combination of military-to-military meetings and diplomatic interactions, three aspects stand out.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  28 May 2013

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, infrastructure development, Ladakh, Li Keqiang, Look East Policy, military CBMs, Sino-Indian relations