Tag: Sino-US relations

• China-Pakistan Relations after Osama bin Laden

  Domestic instability in Pakistan, the continuing spread of religious radicalism from Pakistan into China, and threats to Chinese economic interests are conditions that would amplify the need for Beijing to take a sterner line with its “all-weather friend”. This could well be a serious dilemma confronting the Chinese leadership at some point in the near…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  September 22, 2011

  Borders, Foreign Policy, Sub-nationalism, War and Conflict

  ‘war on terror’, Afghanistan, Chinese investments, Chinese media, Gwadar, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Sino-Pak relations, Sino-Pak trade, Sino-US relations, United States, Xinjiang

• Hillary Clinton’s India Visit: Chinese Elephant in the Room

  If “much of the history of the 21st century will be written in Asia”, then New Delhi will need to find the energy and resources to focus not just on its troubled western frontiers but also on its sprawling and diverse eastern neighbourhood.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  September 21, 2011

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Afghanistan, Asian century, Australia, democracy, India-Japan-US trilateral, Indo-US relations, Indonesia, Japan, Look East Policy, maritime security, Myanmar, Quadrilateral Initiative, Sino-Indian relations, Sino-US relations, South China Sea disputes, strategic partnership, Vietnam

• China and the end of Osama

  The killing of Osama bin Laden shook the Chinese in more ways than one. From ordinary netizen to government-run media, there was disbelief, sarcasm and worries of a geopolitical sort.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  September 18, 2011

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  ‘war on terror’, Afghanistan, Chinese media, Gwadar, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, PNS Mehran attack, Sino-US relations, United States

• Of Strategic Dialogues and Talk-shops

  Empty plaudits for multilateralism and championing a multi-polar world cannot hide the fact that New Delhi’s current method of engagement with China avoids the intense domestic public scrutiny that comes from a sustained high-level and exclusive dialogue with Beijing.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  September 18, 2011

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  BRICS, Russia-India-China trilateral, Sino-Indian boundary negotiations, Sino-Indian relations, Sino-US relations, Sino-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue (SED), Special Representatives