Tag: Sino-Indian relations

• US continues to get China wrong

  

  UNITED STATES PRESIDENT Joe Biden will be meeting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in California in what will be the latter’s first trip to the US since 2017 when he met with Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump…

• Economic policy with Chinese characteristics

  

  China’s economy has been a tailspin recently that is the result of politics as much as of objective economic conditions. There is no doubt that politics played a role in the decision to open up China’s economy in the late 1970s…

• India is not stepping up to the challenge of countering China

  

  t should be easy for the world to criticise China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has completed 10 years. Consider its record, for one. Several countries have realised the Chinese often promised a lot more than they delivered while yet other while yet others — Pakistan and Sri Lanka, in India’s neighbourhood — also…

• Xi Jinping skipping G20 Summit says a lot about how China sees India

  

  HOW SHOULD INDIA interpret Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to not attend the G20 leader’s summit in New Delhi? Domestic political crises are common enough reasons for leaders to want to skip foreign visits. There are reports that influential elders of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) have expressed their unhappiness at the present state…

• When a Chinese scholar asked Pakistan to learn from India

  

  CHINA HAS LONG claimed that it does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, but its relationship with ‘iron brother’ Pakistan should suggest otherwise. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), for example, has always been used…

• How to interpret China’s imaginary consensus with India

  

  FOLLOWING A MEETING on the sidelines of a BRICS gathering of National Security Advisers, between India’s Ajit Doval and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign ministry has been reported as saying that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping had reached “an important consensus” to restore bilateral ties…

• India’s inaction is encouraging China’s bad behaviour

  

  LATE LAST MONTH, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held bilateral talks with his Chinese counterpart, General Li Shangfu on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) defence ministers meeting in New Delhi…

• Border management more than just domestic politics

  

  DURING HIS VISIT to Arunachal Pradesh earlier this week, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah declared, “Today, we can state with pride, gone are those days when people could encroach into our land. Now, they cannot even take a pin’s tip worth of our land because the ITBP and the Indian Army are now present here.”…

• Lesson for India from China’s balloon war

  

  BILATERAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN India and China proscribe air intrusions across the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The 1996 Agreement on Confidence-Building Measures in the Military Field specifically states that flights of combat aircraft within 10 kilometres from the LAC need to be notified in advance, and that other aircraft cannot fly across the LAC except…