Tag: Xi Jinping

• 19th National Congress of the CPC: Xi Jinping Firmly in Charge

  Xi places great stress on the CPC in the vanguard role for China. Taken together with his calls for national ‘rejuvenation’, it would appear there is a turn towards greater authoritarianism and centralisation in China.

• Panama Switches Diplomatic Recognition from Taiwan to China

  China under Xi Jinping is engaged in a long-term but steady strategy of trying to isolate Taiwan diplomatically and constrain its international space

• 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

• The Modi-Xi Tango: Missteps and Fluffed Lines?

  If India thinks it has a Tibet card, then it must play it more wisely, not engage in theatrics.

• Assessing the Xi Visit: After the Optics, A Reality Check

  China is not going to make big investments in Indian infrastructure development without adequate policy support from New Delhi and state governments.

• China and Narendra Modi

  Does Narendra Modi’s decisive electoral victory hold significance for Chinese domestic politics? And what is China’s approach going to be to Prime Minister Modi?

• China’s New Foreign Policy Team

  The first annual session of the 12th National People’s Congress in China was notable for, among other things, new appointments to China’s key foreign policy positions. What are the implications for India?

• China’s ‘Parliament’: Clear and Present Challenges

  While the Communist Party continues to be the more powerful than the government in China, the symbols of state such as the National People’s Congress are increasingly vocal.

• 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.