Tag: Sino-Indian relations

• Military CBMs, Bilateral Agreements and the Sino-Indian Relationship

  This essay examines the key agreements concluded between India and China in the post-Cold War era with implications for their boundary dispute and bilateral military CBMs.

• Sino-Indian Military CBMs: Efficacy and Influences

  What is the state of current military CBMs between India and China?How have these held up to the pressures of recent years?

• The Ladakh Stand-off: What it Says (or Doesn’t) about China’s India Policy and India’s China Policy

  While the Ladakh incident was eventually resolved by a combination of military-to-military meetings and diplomatic interactions, three aspects stand out.

• Candour on the Red Carpet: Parsing the Sino-Indian Joint Statement

  To the careful observer, it is clear that the Indian government was neither thrown off its stride by the Ladakh incident and nor was it overly swayed by the symbolism of Li Keqiang’s first overseas state visit.

• Li Keqiang’s India Visit: Towards Realistic Expectations

  In the case of high-level visits, no matter what the problems and complications in a bilateral relationship, it is always important from a diplomatic point of view to make sure the atmospherics are excellent and that warmth and enthusiasm are on full display.

• The Ladakh ‘Incursion’: Chinese Actions and Indian Lessons

  The ‘incursion’ by Chinese soldiers in the Depsang Plains in Ladakh raises some fundamental questions about the Sino-Indian boundary dispute and about Indian and Chinese policies.

• China’s New Foreign Policy Team

  The first annual session of the 12th National People’s Congress in China was notable for, among other things, new appointments to China’s key foreign policy positions. What are the implications for India?

• 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.

• The US ‘Pivot’ to Asia: Impact on Indian Foreign and Security Policies

  In the whole issue of the American rebalancing towards Asia, the perspectives of countries besides China also need to be understood. These countries have their own balancing act to follow; and India, much more so than most other countries, given that it is a strategic partner to both China and the US and has ambitious…