Nathu La & the Sino-Indian Trade: Understanding the Sensitivities in Sikkim
As India and China began normalising relations in the mid-1970s they also initiated a process of dialogue. This enabled both countries to explore the feasibility of trade ties and identify areas of...
View ArticleIndia and China: the way forward
This decade is witnessing major geopolitical changes as the US, the sole global superpower, readjusts policies to ensure that its pre-eminent status remains unchallenged and its strategic interests...
View ArticleChina to India: New president, old policy
China’s new leadership wants to improve economic relations and maintain the uneasy pre-2008 status quo on strategic disputes with India. This message came through in the first policy statement on India...
View ArticleOn the borderline with Beijing
When Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits India from May 19-21, the Sino-Indian territorial dispute will be on the top of his strategic agenda. Li will visit against the backdrop of the recent Sino-Indian...
View ArticleChina’s India necessity
As Chinese Premier Li Keqiang prepares for his visit to India, what are the possibilities that could arise from his historic visit? Three issues have, over the past sixty years been prominent in...
View ArticleMoving on from Ladakh
When Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meet on Monday in New Delhi, India and China will project to the world that the two economic marvels — with a combined GDP set...
View ArticleBook review: Talibanistan
The militant groups along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border are far more complex and diverse than is commonly understood. While these groups share many ideological and historical characteristics, the...
View ArticleIndia-China: Diverging, still
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has wrapped up his maiden visit to India – his first port of call after becoming Premier. Throughout the visit, he repeated his theme of ‘handshake across the Himalayas’ and...
View ArticleLessons from Depsang
The recent three-week long incursion by Chinese troops 19 kilometres into Eastern Ladakh, has yet again highlighted the systemic anomalies in the Indian defence establishment. While analysts try to...
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