Tag: Sino-Indian relations

• Border Provinces in Foreign Policy: China’s West and India’s Northeast

  China has given greater leeway in economic matters, to these provinces of the west under its Western Development Strategy (WDS). In India, too, there is greater attention being paid to connecting India’s Look East Policy (LEP), a foreign policy initiative, with the economic development of the Indian Northeast. Might the WDS and the LEP be…

• China-Pakistan Relations: Reinterpreting the Nexus

  “The Afghans they hate us, The Indians wanna bring us to our knees How long will it be Lord, till we piss off the Chinese I got the blues” Saad Haroon

• China-India Relations: Strategic Engagement and Challenges

  It is necessary for India and China to avoid misperception and misreading of each other’s strategic intentions. But how?

• The EU, China and India

  How can the European Union intervene in a positive and creative manner to ensure that a ‘new cold war’ does not develop between the two Asian giants?

• Not India’s Ocean: Perceptions of Chinese Presence in the Indian Ocean

  It is important to start with that oft-repeated statement made by a Chinese admiral, “We can no longer accept the Indian Ocean as an ocean of the Indians.” Apart from a sense of nationalist hurt that Indian reactions to the statement portrayed and continue to portray, the statement succeeded also in evoking a realization hitherto…

• Towards a New Asian Architecture: India and Ideology

  India must ask itself some hard questions. What does India view as the foundation for its relations with other countries? Why for example, should any country consider India’s rise as benign in comparison to that of China’s?

• Chinese Strategic Interests in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

  The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is today a strategic and commercial asset for both China and Pakistan but it has also been responsible for transporting terrorism, drugs and disease. Indeed, for Pakistan, the resultant Chinese concerns are no small matter. Its policy towards the Northern Areas invariably invokes the link that the region provides with China…

• The Indo-US Nuclear Deal and the China Factor

  If the Indian nuclear tests of 1998, provided the first occasion for China in the post-Cold War era, to sit up and give due attention to India in a global political and strategic context, the Indo-US Nuclear Deal provides the second occasion in the same process.

• Leadership Change in China and Implications for India

  The 17th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China that took place in October 2007 was notable for the beginning of the transition to the so-called fifth generation of China’s leaders. It is important to analyze these leadership changes both for what they reveal about the Chinese domestic political system and for their possible…