Tag: Pakistan

• India is not stepping up to the challenge of countering China

  

  t should be easy for the world to criticise China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has completed 10 years. Consider its record, for one. Several countries have realised the Chinese often promised a lot more than they delivered while yet other while yet others — Pakistan and Sri Lanka, in India’s neighbourhood — also…

• When a Chinese scholar asked Pakistan to learn from India

  

  CHINA HAS LONG claimed that it does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, but its relationship with ‘iron brother’ Pakistan should suggest otherwise. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), for example, has always been used…

• China in Afghanistan: Not Ready for the Burden

  Despite the US withdrawal, it is too early for anyone to declare victory for China in Afghanistan

• Recalibrating India’s Foreign Policy in South Asia: The China Factor

  New Delhi has tried to work around its internal contradictions and a weak economy with the help of rhetoric and high profile diplomacy but it is increasingly difficult to keep up the act.

• Covid-19 Introduces New Tensions in India-China Relations

  With the COVID-19 pandemic, the name “Wuhan” has become much better known in India than it ever was for the April 2018 informal summit between Modi and Xi in that city. It remains to be seen which of these two legacies from Wuhan will last in India-China relations.

• Another Rajapaksa at the Helm in Sri Lanka: The China Factor

  Given that China has both more money than India and diplomatic capacity that matches that of the US, it will remain a significant player in Sri Lanka.

• Vacuous Summitry

  Structural problems between India and China are unlikely to be resolved by two leaders having ‘informal’ dialogues or meetings without agendas.

• India-China Relations: Running on Empty

  The Indian and Chinese governments have set their ties a very low bar of achievement talking essentially soft issues like cultural exchanges which are low-hanging fruit but which are unlikely to help repair in a hurry the high degree of bilateral political mistrust

• Chinese Reactions to India’s Reorganization of Jammu & Kashmir

  There is little that actually changes on the ground on the LAC between India and China despite the latter’s rhetoric. It could also be reasonably argued that a change in the status of J&K is not a major concern for China in so far as it involves Pakistan.