Tag: SCO

• India-China thaw — real progress or an impression of progress?

  

  PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA Modi will head to China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders’ summit at the end of August but attention will be focused on the bilateral relationship…

• Delhi’s multilateralism plank needs tweaking

  

  DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INDIA and China are now at the heart of their interactions in multilateral institutions and, thus, of geopolitics

• Central Asia needs greater attention from Indian policymakers

  

  INDIA’S HOSTING OF the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meetings of defence and foreign ministers in April and in May as part of its presidency of the grouping is an occasion to consider afresh India’s influence in the region. Naturally, this influence must be measured…

• China-India-Pakistan Trilateral: Red Herring and Opportunity

  The Chinese suggestion for an China-India-Pakistan trilateral should provide fresh impetus – if that were needed – for New Delhi to reconsider its own Pakistan policy.

• China in Central Asia: Myth-making and Foreign Policy

  India needs to give Ladakh greater agency in order to ensure that this region can function as its pivot to Central Asia and to challenge Chinese domination there.

• Emerging Regional Architectures in Asia

  In the case of Russia-India-China trilateral, the domestic political orientation of each country contributes fundamentally to its perceptions and views of the objectives and functions of regional organizations.