Tag: Sino-Indian relations

• For China, Age is More than a Number

  Originally published as ‘For China, Age is More than a Number’, India’s World, 9 December 2024. On one of his state visits to Egypt in the 1990s, then Chinese President Jiang Zemin is said to have discovered that the Egyptians showcased their civilization as being 5,000 years old. On his return, he ordered that Chinese…

• On India-China ties, Delhi takes one step forward, two steps back

  

  WHILE INDIAN STATEMENTS on the bilateral relationship with China are exercises in brevity, Chinese statements are more expansive by comparison. Taken together, however, they provide a picture of how the relationship is evaluated by each side. With the 23rd meeting of the Special Representatives (SRs) on the India-China boundary…

• Doval-Wang SR Talks: Back to the Grind

  Originally published as, ‘Two steps forward, one step back’, The Indian Express, 21 December 2024. p.11. Published online as ‘On India-China ties, Delhi takes one step forward, two steps back’. While Indian statements on the bilateral relationship with China are exercises in brevity, Chinese statements are more expansive by comparison. Taken together, however, they provide…

• New India-China Patrolling Agreement: More Questions from Kazan

  Originally published as, ‘Path to normalisation of India-China ties not easy’, Deccan Herald, 26 October 2024. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held “their first proper bilateral meeting at delegation level in nearly five years” on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia.[1] Coming in the wake of an announcement earlier…

• A Patrolling Agreement and Some Questions

  INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY Vikrim Misri announced on Monday that India and China had reached “an agreement … on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control…leading to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had arisen”  following Chinese transgressions…

• India-China agreement is welcome — but we don’t know enough

  

  INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY Vikram Misri announced on October 21 that India and China had reached “an agreement… on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control… leading to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had arisen” following Chinese transgressions “in these areas in 2020”. The question that remains to be clarified…

• Creative political and economic policies will give India greater leeway with China

  

  WHILE THE LEOPARD will not change its spots, China is also under increasing domestic economic stress and international pressure for many reasons. India can, and should, align more closely on security matters with both the West and those of China’s neighbours threatened by it…

• There is an evident confusion in India’s economic policy towards China

  India’s economic policy towards China is currently in a state of confusion and needs significant reconsideration from the new government. What explains this state of affairs?…

• This Election Season, What Do Indian Political Parties Say About China?

  

  China is the primary foreign policy and security challenge that India faces in its neighbourhood. Alongside New Delhi’s apprehensions is a fascination in sections of the Indian political elite for the way China has grown its economic and diplomatic heft. China is a reference point – a model even – to benchmark and achieve domestic economic…