International Relations in India & Beyond
Located between the Indian Subcontinent and the Central Asian region, Afghanistan is one of the earliest nation-states that came into being in the broader region. Despite this, the nation has been marred with conflict...
Introduction “China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one. If one day China should change her colour and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant...
“This is a good time for India to up its investment in the quad. The appearance of privileging BRICS/RIC meetings over engagement with like-minded partners is discordant” tweeted by Alice Wells, now retired acting...
Book Review: Dexter Roberts The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World (St Martin’s Press, 2020) CCP’s discriminatory hukou system is a great obstacleto changing from world’s factory to a...
Indo-Pacific is a geopolitical construct which emerging and being popular in contemporary global politics. The Indo-Pacific construct is based upon maritime space. It connects both the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean region. 60%...
In the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, China has worked hard to emerge as the major aid-provider to the World rather than the epicentre of the outbreak, deploying aggressive and ambitious health diplomacy. As part of...
October 1949 – People’s Republic of China Established Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong establishes the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1 after peasant-backed Communists defeat the Nationalist government of Chiang...
China was at the top of the global news agenda when a panel of experts recently gathered online to interpret its response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Democracy Forum conference, hosted online for the...
The most distinctive aspect of China’s “socialist market economy” is that it relies on a precisely set and regularly reviewed strategy. Defined in its plans (the Five Year plans, alongside other longer-term objectives, the...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has asked the People’s Liberation Army to step up their war preparedness. In a meeting with the Chinese military leadership on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress, the Chinese...
