Tag: new tianxia

• Is It Asia’s Moment, Yet?

  Asia witnessed two major summits in the last week of April – between Kim Jong-un of North Korea and Moon Jae-in of South Korea in Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone between the two countries, and between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuhan, China. Arguably, it was the meeting between…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 May 2018

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘informal summit’, Asian century, Asian values, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, hegemony, new tianxia, North Korea, one belt, one road’ (OBOR) / ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI), pan-Asianism, protectionism, Rabindranath Tagore, Sino-Indian relations, South Korea

• Responding to China’s New Silk Roads Initiative

  Where India’s China analysts and policymakers across two different political dispensations have been remiss, is in anticipating the ambition and scale of the Chinese initiative

  Jabin T. Jacob

  3 June 2015

  Foreign Policy

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), Chinese foreign policy, Indian foreign policy, Indian Foreign Service (IFS), new Silk Roads, new tianxia

• China’s ‘New Tianxia’ and the Indian Response

  The fundamental weakness in India’s response to Chinese diplomatic initiatives is its lack of human resources capacity within and outside the Indian government.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  4 May 2015

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Chinese foreign policy, conference diplomacy, foreign languages, Indian foreign policy, Indian Foreign Service (IFS), new Silk Roads, new tianxia

• China’s New Silk Roads: Reinterpreting History

  The so-called ‘sound historical basis’ that Chinese commentators seem to find for the Maritime Silk Road might not be all that sound. It might just as well be called the Maritime Spice Route.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  3 May 2015

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), Central Asia, Chinese foreign policy, Maritime Silk Road, new Silk Roads, new tianxia, Project Mausam, Silk Road Economic Belt, soft power, Southeast Asia, trade facilitation