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 …
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Lessons for India from Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit
Originally published at Moneycontrol, 4 August 2022. How is United States’ House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan relevant to Indian citizens? One, it should teach Indians a thing or two about the value of separation of powers and the options it creates for conducting smart foreign policy. At a joint press conference …
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In the new cold war China is not Russia
China’s decades-long pursuit of asymmetric military capabilities garners a great deal of attention but the victory of the US at the end of the Cold War taught it much else
How Russia-Ukraine crisis works in China’s favour
China’s tendency to privilege naked self-interest over principles in its international affairs suggests it seek advantages from the crisis created by the Russian invasion
China in Afghanistan: Not Ready for the Burden
Despite the US withdrawal, it is too early for anyone to declare victory for China in Afghanistan
China’s Possible Approaches to the US under Joe Biden
The new American president faces a China that believes increasingly in taking the fight to the opposition.
Biden’s China Agenda: Two Missteps Require Repair
The US should do better on supporting countries that are both aligned with it in values and actually doing the standing up to China.
Book : China’s Search for ‘National Rejuvenation’: Domestic and Foreign Policies under Xi Jinping
Asian perspectives on China’s domestic and foreign policies
Journal Article : China’s External Propaganda during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jabin T. Jacob, ‘“To Tell China’s Story Well”: China’s International Messaging during the COVID-19 Pandemic’, China Report, Vol. 56, No. 3 August 2020. 374-392. Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has dented China’s image as an efficient Party-state given how an effort to cover up the outbreak and the resulting delays in reporting led to the virus spreading …
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Thinking about China in India 