Tag: string of pearls

• The Age of the Lilliputians

  The Asian century might not be so much about China and India as their neighbours who get these giants to behave themselves.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 November 2011

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Chinese foreign policy, democracy, Indian foreign policy, Myanmar, Nepal, South China Sea disputes, Sri Lanka, string of pearls, Vietnam

• Not India’s Ocean: Perceptions of Chinese Presence in the Indian Ocean

  It is important to start with that oft-repeated statement made by a Chinese admiral, “We can no longer accept the Indian Ocean as an ocean of the Indians.” Apart from a sense of nationalist hurt that Indian reactions to the statement portrayed and continue to portray, the statement succeeded also in evoking a realization hitherto…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  27 August 2011

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  energy security, Gwadar, Indian Navy, MOOTW, Myanmar, Pakistan, PLAN, Sino-Indian relations, SLOCs, string of pearls, United States