Tag: Quadrilateral Initiative

• Ishiba Meets Trump: A Diplomatic Win for Japan Under Pressure

  Originally published as Chisako T. Masuo and Jabin T. Jacob, ‘Ishiba-Trump meet a diplomatic win for Japan’, Deccan Herald, 24 February 2025. By mid-February, United States’ new president Donald Trump had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  24 February 2025

  Foreign Policy

  Chinese foreign policy, Donald Trump, economic diplomacy, Japan, Quadrilateral Initiative, United States

• Two Years After Border Clashes, India Still Lacks a Coherent China Policy

  Originally published at World Politics Review, 13 July 2022. It has been over two years since Chinese incursions in the summer of 2020 along the disputed India-China boundary in eastern Ladakh led to a series of skirmishes that left dozens of soldiers dead on both sides. Yet unlike a February 2019 confrontation with Pakistan, which…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  13 July 2022

  Foreign Policy

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Doklam, Hambantota, India-Pakistan relations, Indian foreign policy, Ladakh, Line of Actual Control (LAC), Narendra Modi, Quadrilateral Initiative, Russia-Ukraine crisis, S. Jaishankar, Taiwan, Tibetan government-in-exile, Wang Yi, Xi Jinping

• Assessing India’ China Policy in 2021

  It appears that the Indian government lacks the political will to deal with China firmly and unambiguously

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 January 2022

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  AUKUS, boundary dispute, BRICS, Chinese foreign policy, Depsang, Galwan, Indian Army, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Indian Navy, Line of Actual Control (LAC), Pangong Tso, Quadrilateral Initiative, Russia-India-China trilateral, Sino-Indian relations

• To Be or Not to Be? BRICS and India’s Confused Signalling on China

  China forces India to bend to the lowest standards possible in terms of democracy and accountability — which is to say to Chinese standards

  Jabin T. Jacob

  6 October 2021

  Foreign Policy

  BRICS, Chinese foreign policy, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Indian foreign policy, Quadrilateral Initiative, Sino-Indian relations, terrorism

• Looking Beyond China: Strengthening Bilateral Relationships in the Quad

  Quad 2.0 has proceeded more determinedly even if slowly but the Covid-19 pandemic now offers an opportunity to step up the pace. The issue now is of ensuring that Chinese pressure does not derail its development yet again.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  9 June 2020

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Australia, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Indian Ocean, Japan, MALABAR naval exercises, Quadrilateral Initiative, regional security, Sino-Indian relations, United States

• 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

• Chinese Expectations from Modi 2.0

  In the second Modi term, New Delhi will have to do a better job than issuing statements on the BRI or ignoring it altogether and be willing to offer credible alternatives if it is retain any standing among its neighbours and further afield.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  22 June 2019

  Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), Asia-Africa Growth Corridor, Bangladesh, BBIN, BCIM, Chinese foreign policy, Dalai Lama, Indian foreign policy, Pakistan, Quadrilateral Initiative, Sino-US relations, Taiwan, Tibetan government-in-exile, Wuhan informal summit

• 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

• India and China’s Neighbours: Carefully Does It

  The recent visits of Indian Vice-President Hamid Ansari and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Vietnam are signs of a growing convergence of concerns that these countries have about China. But no strategic grouping can be sustainable without also developing linkages at multiple levels.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  4 February 2013

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  China threat, elite politics, Indian foreign policy, Japan, Look East Policy, Quadrilateral Initiative, racism, Sino-Indian relations, Vietnam