Tag: Taiwan

• China-Taiwan crisis: Implications and options for Japan

  Co-authored with Chisako T. Masuo and originally published at India Today, 9 August 2022. It would be easy to portray the tensions generated by the visit of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan as something largely involving the US and China; sometimes, even the Taiwanese are not considered as part of the…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  9 August 2022

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  East China Sea, maritime disputes, maritime security, Senkaku/Diaoyutai, Sino-Japanese relations, Taiwan

• Two Years After Border Clashes, India Still Lacks a Coherent China Policy

  Originally published at World Politics Review, 13 July 2022. It has been over two years since Chinese incursions in the summer of 2020 along the disputed India-China boundary in eastern Ladakh led to a series of skirmishes that left dozens of soldiers dead on both sides. Yet unlike a February 2019 confrontation with Pakistan, which…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  13 July 2022

  Foreign Policy

  boundary dispute, Chinese foreign policy, Doklam, Hambantota, India-Pakistan relations, Indian foreign policy, Ladakh, Line of Actual Control (LAC), Narendra Modi, Quadrilateral Initiative, Russia-Ukraine crisis, S. Jaishankar, Taiwan, Tibetan government-in-exile, Wang Yi, Xi Jinping

• 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

  Jabin T. Jacob

  25 May 2022

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), cultural chauvinism, democracy, economic development, ideology, new cold war, Russia, Sino-US relations, Taiwan

• 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

  Jabin T. Jacob

  1 March 2022

  Borders, Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  Chinese foreign policy, Chinese renminbi, economic sanctions, Russia-Ukraine crisis, Sino-Russia relations, Sino-US relations, Taiwan

• Of Elections, Fake News and China

  Indian citizens could perhaps learn much from the Taiwanese election campaign, where various civic groups actively fact-checked each candidate’s speech and confronted them in real time over inconsistencies and inaccuracies.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  24 January 2020

  Comparative Politics, Political Parties

  Aadhaar, Chinese investments, Communist Party of China (CPC), data security, elections, fake news, Indian economy, political donations, propaganda, Taiwan, telecom, Tsai Ing-wen

• Chinese Expectations from Modi 2.0

  In the second Modi term, New Delhi will have to do a better job than issuing statements on the BRI or ignoring it altogether and be willing to offer credible alternatives if it is retain any standing among its neighbours and further afield.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  22 June 2019

  Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  ‘belt and road’ initiative (BRI)/(OBOR), Asia-Africa Growth Corridor, Bangladesh, BBIN, BCIM, Chinese foreign policy, Dalai Lama, Indian foreign policy, Pakistan, Quadrilateral Initiative, Sino-US relations, Taiwan, Tibetan government-in-exile, Wuhan informal summit

• Tsai-Trump Telephone Call: Reading Trump and the Chinese Response

  As US president, Donald Trump might be more amenable to testing Chinese limits and using Taiwan as a bargaining ploy.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  5 December 2016

  Foreign Policy, War and Conflict

  China-Taiwan relations, democracy, Donald Trump, one-China policy, Sino-US relations, Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen

• India-Taiwan Relations: Promise Unfulfilled

  India-Taiwan relations lack both ambition and creativity and suffer from not a little pusillanimity.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  14 September 2016

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), economic cooperation, education, Indian foreign policy, infrastructure development, Kuomintang (KMT), people-to-people contacts, Sino-Indian relations, sub-nationalism, Taiwan

• Parsing Tsai Ing-wen’s Inaugural Presidential Speech

  Tsai Ing-wen’s inaugural speech as President of the Republic of China suggests that Taiwan will continue to chart a course differentiating itself from mainland China.

  Jabin T. Jacob

  3 June 2016

  Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political Parties

  Cross-strait relations, democracy, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), elections, federalism, Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen