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Can China Navigate the Storm? New Economic Hurdles May Test Resilience...
While China has successfully weathered economic challenges before, this time is different, writes Janak Raj. ...
India-China Agreement is Welcome — but we don’t Know Enough...
Delhi-Beijing agreement on patrolling LAC is an achievement of Indian diplomacy, but it is also a limited one, writes Jabin Jacob....
China Pitches Its Model of Modernization to the Global South...
There is a shift underway in China’s Global South diplomacy, as Beijing seeks to compensate for less financial firepower by focusing more on...
When an Admiral gets to Helm China’s PLA...
The choice of a defence minister from the Chinese navy is also an attempt to avoid further embarrassment for China, domestically as well as...
Can a Polarised India Deter China?...
If the smartest thinkers in the US can worry about its political dysfunction and can call for ‘rebuilding support at home’, Indians should worry...
China in Focus, Defence Reforms Get Underway...
Defence reforms reimagine the relationship between the defence ministry and the military and foster greater inter-services collaboration....
Podcast | A Big-Picture Look at the India-China Relationship...
Shivshankar Menon shares his views on the India-China competition, the potential for cooperation or crisis, and what it means for India’s partners...
India-China Rivalry Not Episodic or Contextual but Structural: Experts...
It is not exactly true that India's rivalry with China is spoken of only in hushed tones. The Indian strategic community is quite vocal about this...
Reforms Will Determine Whether China Can Return to Rapid Growth...
Its economy should adjust its growth model again and financial liberalization could set a ball rolling to accelerate expansion....
That Thucydides Trap Again...
Does China have to inevitably face confrontation from the US and seek domination over India, asks Jaimini Bhagwati....
How India Handles China will Determine Success of Foreign Policy...
The issue of how India handles China is likely to remain India's most complex external challenge....
Synopsis of Indian Thinking about China, 2018-2022...
Constantino Xavier and Gil Rozman trace the evolution of Indian thinking about China from 2018-22 and recognize linkages with its response to Russia's...
Why the Corporate Flight From Russia Is No Precedent for China...
Despite the rising tensions with China, it is hard to see how the Ukraine war could set a precedent for a confrontation with a vastly bigger economic...
The ‘Whys’ Behind China’s Breathing-fire-24/7 Foreign Policy...
The pattern of China’s internal politics and development has given a particular cast or shape to China’s external behaviour in the last decade....
Internal Drivers of China’s External Behaviour...
Shivshankar Menon suggests crucial domestic factors which have driven China’s path and examines some implications of the role in shaping China’s...
Can India Push China off its Dominant Perch?...
"A compass to navigate the geopolitical churn with China." Vikram Singh Mehta reviews "Rising To The China Challenge" by Gautam Bambawale, Vijay...
‘The Fractured Himalaya: India, China, Tibet 1949-1962’ review: A...
The history of the critical initial years of a political relationship when India and China tried to manage issues such as the boundary question, and...
Power balance has shifted against us: Shivshankar Menon on India-China...
We have to rely on ourselves to deal with China. We have started military reforms but it is too early to say we have been successful, says Shivshankar...
Indian tech unicorns are gaining at China’s expense. Is this a blessing...
The last thing India can afford is a bubble that bursts and for capital, talent and technology to take flight and seek refuge elsewhere....
Should India Keep Quad Out of the Neighbourhood?...
Constantino Xavier discusses policy consequences and the impact of India being perceived as a part of the "non-China" camp....
How the US Created China’s Dominance...
The US, more than other G7 countries, has called out the bristling hubris of a totalitarian China, writes Jaimini Bhagwati....
India, China, and the stalemate beyond Ladakh...
Behind the ongoing military stalemate at the LAC lies a stifling political stalemate between India and China. ...
China tore up the modus vivendi in 2020, the LAC is now live: Shivshankar...
We are still in the middle of a negotiating a crisis... the crisis is nowhere near over until Depsang, Gogra [are resolved], says Menon....
Why is China aggressively turning to the sea now?...
What is new for China is that it now must think as a maritime power, something it has never done for any extended period of time, if at all, writes...
Modi’s India plans to be ‘vishwaguru’ but forgets soft power is...
In ‘India and Asian Geopolitics’, Shivshankar Menon writes that being a vishwaguru plays well with Modi’s Hindu constituency but is hardly a...
Watch | Understanding ‘India and Asian Geopolitics’...
Shivshankar Menon's new book offers a sweeping survey of India’s strategic history as part of the larger Asian geopolitical narrative....
India-China ties set for ‘hard times’ over next 5-10 years:...
India and China have been working to ease tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh since the Galwan border clash in June...
Chinese social media debates who is in control of Ladakh as India, China...
The February 11 agreement for disengagement on the north and south banks of Pangong Tso and the PLA Daily, for the first time, publicly claiming four...
The Chinese chatter on Jack Ma and his mysterious disappearance...
The world wants to know where is China’s most charismatic business leader Jack Ma, but the issue remains shrouded in secrecy and mystery....
Book review: The Historian’s Eye...
Romila Thapar provides a nonjudgmental cultural perspective on China....
India-China ties: The future holds ‘antagonistic cooperation’,...
The crisis has made it clear that India’s China policy cannot optimise for both security and prosperity....
What China hopes to gain from the present border standoff with India...
China's actions have brought about what it should be trying to deter, i.e. closer India-US coordination. ...
Their ties go back in time but India, China were absent from each...
While exchanging goods, people, and ideas for centuries, India and China did not deal with other as states or impact each other’s politics or...
Following the money: China Inc’s growing stake in India-China ties...
China's total investment in India exceeds an estimated US$26 billion, exceeding official estimates by 25%. ...
India 2024: An interdependent China and India...
China today looms large in India’s consciousness, with implications for India’s neighbourhood and connectivity initiatives, trade policy,...
Narendra Modi-Xi Jinping Meet: What’s On The Agenda...
Are India and China ready to start afresh? Brookings India’s Dhruva Jaishankar discusses in a TV discussion on BloombergQuint....
The rise and rise of Xi Jinping: At 19th Party Congress, he consolidates...
The National Congress of the Communist Party, held every five years, is the closest thing authoritarian China has to an election. The most recent...
India and China...
Dhruva Jaishankar spoke to the Australian Information Industry Association on the historical conflicts between China and India, the...
China’s reaction to Hague ruling could have negative impact on other...
China’s shrill and bellicose response during and after the ruling has only served to heighten alarm over Beijing’s intentions and...
The South China Sea arbitration ruling, and why it matters to India...
The future of the South China Sea has global implications, as jurisdiction over a few seemingly minor islands legitimises control over vast amounts of...
Here’s how the future of the South China Sea will have global...
On Tuesday, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague released its much-awaited ruling on a case brought by the Philippines against China on the...
Xi Jinping’s strategic Middle East gambit...
The Chinese president’s visit to Iran (after summits in Saudi Arabia and Egypt) is of strategic significance. What is the difference between...
Chinese tremors...
China’s path to global economic leadership is bound to be marked by episodes of turbulence Recent developments in the Chinese financial sector...
The merits of going nuclear with China...
This column first appeared in Mint, on September 15, 2014. Like other products of the Brookings Institution India Center, this is intended to...
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India-China Agreement is Welcome — but we don’t Know Enough
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