Tag: Sino-Indian relations

• How India should read Prabowo Subianto’s China visit

  

  Outgoing Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited China eight times in 10 years and met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping 12 times during this period. Jokowi, as he is more commonly known, visited China three times before his first visit to — for the India-ASEAN summit in January 2018, and the G20 in September last…

• China’s Undeclared Competition with India in Regional and Global Institutions

  India-China bilateral relations are at their most difficult point in decades. China violated a host of bilateral treaties when it conducted a series of incursions across the Eastern section of the disputed India China boundary in the summer of 2020. In one particular clash, 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese soldiers were killed…

• India can’t afford to ignore China challenge

  AS WE IN India enter another election season, it is also an opportunity to draw attention to the challenges that China poses to our national security interests. If one were to pick just the last fortnight, there are at least three developments that draw attention to the inadequacy of India’s responses, or of its relative…

• How China Perceives the World and India: Reading Li Qiang’s Government Work Report

  

  WHILE LI QIANG makes the call “for an equal and orderly multipolar world and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalisation” and claims China will be “firm in opposing all hegemonic, high-handed, and bullying acts and in upholding international fairness and justice”, his country’s record speaks otherwise…

• Time for India to be proactive on China

  APRIL MARKS FOUR years since the Chinese initiated a series of transgressions all along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh eventually leading to the Galwan Valley clash in June 2020. As India gears up for national elections, it is also an occasion to assess the Indian response and implications for its foreign…

• China and India’s Intense Contest for Influence

  

  UNDER A NEW defense cooperation agreement with the Maldives, China is set to offer free military assistance to the island nation. Coming soon after the presidential order to remove Indian naval personnel from the Maldives and after a so-called Chinese research vessel visited Malé, the agreement is no doubt a provocation to India…

• Xi Jinping, Not The PLA: A Simpler Explanation for India-China Tensions

  

  The principle of Occam’s razor states that if you have two competing ideas to explain a phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one. In other words, the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually the correct one…

• Taiwan defies China through the ballot. India must bite the bullet on its security concerns

  

  AS EXPECTED, LAI CHING-TE has won the Taiwanese presidential elections gaining for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) an unprecedented third successive term in the post. Lai succeeds Tsai Ing-wen, the first woman to serve as President, who will step down after serving the constitutional limit of two terms…

• Can a polarised India deter China?

  

  IF THE SMARTEST thinkers in the US can worry about its political dysfunction and can call for ‘rebuilding support at home’, Indians should worry too, about how our country’s external aspirations are articulated and achieved…