Tag: Sino-Indian relations

• India’s Xinjiang Abstention: Neither Morality nor Self-Interest Clear

  Originally published as ‘What national interests has India achieved by abstaining at UNHRC vote on Xinjiang?’, Moneycontrol, 14 October 2022. In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, George Smiley is asked a question about what morality was — whether it was a method or if it was “vested in the aims”. “Difficult to know what one’s aims…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  14 October 2022

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy

  Chinese foreign policy, ethnic policy, human rights, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Sino-Indian relations, UN Human Rights Council, UN Security Council, Uyghur, Xinjiang

• 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

  19 September 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

• China exploits Wang Yi’s India visit to its advantage

  The Indian government allowed the Chinese envoy to grandstand and sell China’s narratives to the rest of the world

  Jabin T. Jacob

  29 March 2022

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Ajit Doval, boundary dispute, BRICS Summit, Chinese foreign policy, Indian foreign policy, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Line of Actual Control (LAC), S. Jaishankar, Sino-Indian relations, Wang Yi

• Wang Yi in India: Whither India’s muscular foreign policy?

  New Delhi continues to under-utilise the opportunity to revise and reset its China policy that the Chinese transgressions in eastern Ladakh provided nearly two years ago.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  25 March 2022

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  boundary dispute, BRICS, Chinese foreign policy, Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Kashmir, Sino-Indian relations, Sino-Pak relations, Wang Yi

• India must beware of Chinese reassurances

  Always expressing optimism about the India-China relationship no matter what the circumstances is something of a standard operating procedure for Chinese interlocutors

  Jabin T. Jacob

  15 February 2022

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), Galwan, Indian foreign policy, Ladakh, Line of Actual Control (LAC), Sino-Indian relations

• 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

• Signalling a Shift? Parsing the Indian Statement of the 13th India-China Corps Commander Level Meeting 

  If indeed, there is a rethink underway on the Indiangovernment’s approach to China on the LAC, it is about time.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  20 October 2021

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  boundary dispute, Chennai informal summit, Chinese foreign policy, Doklam, Galwan, Indian foreign policy, Line of Actual Control (LAC), S. Jaishankar, Sino-Indian boundary negotiations, 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

• Xi Jinping in Tibet: What India Needs to Look Out For

  The non-military uses of China’s civilian infrastructure build-up in TAR or Xinjiang must not be ignored

  Jabin T. Jacob

  29 July 2021

  Borders, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, ethnic policy, infrastructure development, propaganda, Sino-Indian relations, Tibet