One of the ways the Doklam incident should be read is as a way of China putting pressure to end the special nature of the India-Bhutan relationship.
Tag Archives: South Asia
Boxing It In: China’s Approach to India
China appears to believe that India’s unfriendliness and lack of capacity mean that it has to and can be tied down to South Asia
Of Perceptions and Policies
Review of Shishir Gupta’s ‘The Himalayan Face-Off: Chinese Assertion and the Indian Riposte’
China’s Silk Roads in South Asia: Steel in a Silken Glove
It could well be the case that the majority of Chinese investments will materialize not in India, South Asia’s largest economy and market, but in other parts of South Asia.
The Search for a Chinese Model of International Relations
The contradictions evident in China’s neighbourhood foreign policy reflect its continuing search for a model of international relations that can balance its domestic interests and external ambitions.
Foreign Policy under China’s New Leaders: What India can Expect
While India must continue its own defence modernization and engage in partnership and cooperation with the United States and with China’s neighbours, it must also simultaneously be willing to work with China’s leadership on a broad range of economic, political, military and social issues.
Rising India’s Foreign Policy: A Partial Introduction
Current Indian foreign policy is informed by a realization that a combination of economic reforms and the end of the Cold War has steered India into a position of some considerable influence in the post-9/11 world. What then are the patterns of Indian foreign policy behavior in the new century?
Thinking about China in India 