Tag: Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

• Is Regional Cooperation Possible Without Bilateral Cooperation?

  THIS PAPER ARGUES that while regional cooperation is often viewed as a positive good, it is not sustainable in the long term without strong ties between its constituents. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization exemplifies this reality, given the significant and long-standing tensions between two of its members, India and China…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  December 1, 2025

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Chinese foreign policy, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Sino-Indian relations

• 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…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  August 23, 2025

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Indian foreign policy, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Sino-Indian boundary negotiations, Sino-Indian relations

• India-China Differences Pose challenges to Multilateralism

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

  Jabin T. Jacob

  July 3, 2025

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Chinese foreign policy, Indian foreign policy, multilateral organizations, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Sino-Indian relations

• A Significant Non-Meeting: Modi and Xi at Samarkand

  Originally published as ‘Samarkand SCO: Significance of the Modi-Xi non-meeting’, Moneycontrol, 19 September 2022. Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not meet one-on-one with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan on the sidelines of the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) Council of Heads of State. At least there is no publicly shared evidence of the meeting…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  September 19, 2022

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  boundary dispute, buffer zones, Chinese foreign policy, COVID-19 pandemic, domestic politics, Indian foreign policy, Ladakh, Line of Actual Control (LAC), Narendra Modi, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Sino-Indian relations, Xi Jinping