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Could the refusal of Chinese banks to process payments in Rubles or China's reliance on alternative trade routes that circumvent Russia be considered

There are clear limits to informal summitry, as India has found out since Wuhan. Despite all the rhetoric and symbolism on display at Mamallapuram, the substantive outcome remains clouded in mystery.

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have not really been travelling a lot since the Covid pandemic but they manage to find time for each other amidst the fragmentation of the global order

A lookback at Angela Merkel’s 16-year leadership of Germany

The challenge for policymakers is to identify the means necessary to tackle the threat China poses to security while also addressing threats to human

Australia’s reformed policy towards China is not a turn to China; it’s a return to normality

Xi Jinping's foreign policy gives acute emphasis to the development of silk roads. The closer Moscow and Beijing get, the more Russia will have to adjust to China's interests. It is important to understand that while Moscow depends heavily on Beijing, the situation is not true in the reverse.

India’s position made others buy into the idea and incorporate it in their security outlooks

Why The Sage’s Ideals Matter To Xi Jinping

Xi will need all the authority he has in the coming period as the trade war with the US intensifies.

As the global debate on the Chinese model, and especially its domestic political system intensifies, there is a tendency to regard the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a monolith. This paper corrects such a view and argues that any attempt to comprehend elite politics in China requires an understanding of the factional dynamics within the party. The paper outlines the evolution of factional politics in China, and shows how two factions – the Sh

India may well find itself being dragged into a confrontation that is not of its own making, especially if the Chinese perceive our closeness to the A

The expression "economically warm and politically cold" is perhaps very apt to characterise their relations in recent years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reference to Balochistan, POK and Gilgit in his Independence Day speech has caused a considerable flutter in Pakistan and India.

In the wake of the Ukrainian war, Europe is trying to end its dependency on both Russia and China

On the surface, the two-day summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama seems to be yet another step signalling that the world is headed towards a bipolar polity dominated by the US and China. But a deeper analysis will show that it is part of a more subtle effort by the US to protect its global dominance, which from the Indian point of view may not be such a bad thing.

The real undercurrent of US concerns relates to how China's advancement in technologies that can enhance its rising military capabilities.

As liberal democracies struggle to deal with their domestic crises, China is finding it opportune to fill the gap in global leadership. China’s economic growth in four decades—called by many analysts as a “miracle”—has made its “state-controlled capitalism” model attractive especially to countries facing massive development challenges. More importantly, President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have their ey

America’s leader has signalled the continuity of its China policy but Indo-Pacific countries aren’t yet sure of it

China doesn’t have the money to fulfill its infrastructure-building ambitions. That doesn’t mean the West should pay up.

The virtual summit between Biden and China might define the new policy shift that will govern US-China relations in the coming days

Before the rise of Xi Jinping—before the Beijing Olympics and the South China Sea tensions and the China-India border crisis—the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had already sensed that a rising China would pose daunting challenges to its neighbours and the regional order. This brief argues that without Abe, there would likely have been no ‘Quad’ grouping joining Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. His re

The UK is waking up to the threat to its national security by the Chinese Communist Party

Washington's recent visit to Dharamshala is motivated by its commitment to democratic values and support for freedom, as well as China's increasing ho

Having realised that narrative flow is key to winning modern wars, China is improving its strategic capabilities in information warfare

The biggest battle ahead for Xi Jinping is to protect the country's grand industrial strategy called 'Made in China' which Donald Trump is targeting.

The US appears to lack a coherent strategy for the Asian region.

The Chinese strategy with regard to anything is usually opaque. But the US, being the global hegemon, has no hesitation in putting out just what drive

Aggression today cannot yield leadership. The Asia reset that should have been drafted and crafted by Xi is instead being pushed by Trump.

What will be the impact of the summit on Sino-US relations?

China will have its ear to the ground for noises from the Trump administration in its commitment towards Asian security.

China is instating new measures such as blockchain standardisation and amendment of the Anti-Monopoly Law in an effort to further rein in the Big Tech

Will the world end up underwriting the further rise of China by allowing the CPC to take over global institutions?

Various explanations have been proffered for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s renewed emphasis on ideology. The popular narratives attribute it to either Xi’s power ambitions, or a reaction rooted in his personal trauma during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Meanwhile, an alternative discourse projects the rise of ideology politics as a response to a possible legitimacy crisis facing the Communist Party of China (CPC). This paper weighs i

The emphasis will be on engagement, competition and cooperation

In the public war of words, both the US and China have little room for manoeuvre — both need to exhibit power and control.

US-China relations have been rocky since 2018 when the two sides started a tariff war and the US began to restrict the export of semiconductors to China. And then came Covid-19 and as the situation in the US deteriorated, rhetoric against China began to rise. It has been opportunistic, driven by the hope that it would make the electorate overlook shoddy handling of the pandemic by the Trump administration.

Xi has highlighted ‘severe challenges’ arising out of America’s containment policy

Uzbekistan has embarked on an economic reform drive to unlock Uzbekistan's socio-economic potential through partnerships with China and others

The "Pakistan" thesis doesn’t hold water because no other country can be so self-destructive as Pakistan is in its rivalry with India.

Beijing is not doing as well as it would like us to think. Its economic challenges and isolation have meant it is keener than its put-off partners to achieve some normalcy in ties with other countries.