Rectifying Relationships
If Wen Jiabao's visit to India last month was all about 'rectifying' past relationships, then would the rectification lead eventually to the relationship becoming completely in accordance with the...
View ArticleIndia-China Relations
Wen Jiabao?s forthcoming visit to India comes during an extremely cordial phase of India-China relations, one that has seen a new buoyancy in several spheres, especially trade. While the visit...
View ArticleIndia-China Relations
The series of talks by the two political representatives of India and China can be a new beginning and may provide a framework for an eventual settlement. It is important that we (and the Chinese) move...
View ArticleTalking of and with China
The near-hyperbolic response to prime minister Vajpayee's visit to China shows how far removed the India-China relationship has been from normalcy. It would appear that we shall keep talking of China...
View ArticleA Taibei Diary
In today's Taiwan one comes across a confident economic society. What is at stake is the Taiwanese polity, not because of any internal weaknesses but because the international situation has put a big...
View ArticleA Still Moment in a Volatile Situation
The rise of the Sino-Indian relationship was essentially a political phenomenon. Its fall came when the political climate soured. Its revival, if it is to occur, will have to recover that lost...
View ArticleLi Peng's India Visit:Ritual and Reality
Amidst the 'before' and 'after' of Li Peng's visit and the omissions and commissions of the rhetorical exercises, the impression is unmistakable that Sino-Indian relations are not moving at the pace...
View ArticleA China Diary
Two decades of decentralisation measures initiated by Beijing have provided the provinces of China with a marked degree of autonomy in economic decision-making. Impressions of a visit to Shanghai and...
View Article'Irresistible Attraction' and Implacable Reality
The sobriety that marked president K R Narayanan's visit to China has gone a long way in emphasising both the limits and the possibilities of a relationship that is so vital and central to India's...
View ArticleTwo Eras and After
The legacy of the last 50 years of the People's Republic of China comprises two decades of revolutionary mass mobilisation; two decades of reforms, a 'lost decade' in between. Seemingly, there can be...
View ArticleSino-Indian Relations since Pokhran II
India-China relations deteriorated after India's nuclear explosions. China feels that the onus lies with India to make good the damage done. India expects China to be more sensitive to its security and...
View ArticleCHINA-Leading the Region and Leading the World
Leading the Region and Leading the World Alka Acharya China's preoccupation with economic growth notwithstanding, the role that the country sees for itself is not confined to achieving that agenda...
View ArticleCHINA-Consensus for Reform and Reforming the Consensus
the Communist Party of China (CPC) which opened on September 12, 1997 was both significant and predictable and both in two respects each. Its significance arises first and foremost from the fact that...
View ArticleJiang Zemins India Visit
Alka Acharya The almost exclusive focus, in our response to Jiang Zemin's presidential visit to this country, on the power equation and on China-Pakistan nuclear and missile collaboration and its...
View ArticleIndia-China Relations
There is little doubt that India and China are moving on the path of normalisation of relations - albeit, not quite with fluidity and ease. At best they have acquired a fair degree of political...
View ArticleIndia-China Relations: Towards a 'Shared Vision'
The recent visit of prime minister Manmohan Singh to China covered an entire gamut of issues. Interestingly, economic ties were the centrepiece of the visit, while the contentious issues were...
View ArticleWhither India-China Relations?
The recent extraordinary outpouring of public animosity in India and China towards each other should give us pause and encourage introspection. When the only space that India and China seem to be...
View ArticleOne Step Forward, Three Steps Backward: The Danger of Drift in India-China...
Drift unfortunately seems to have taken hold of India-China relations. For every one step forward, we appear to be taking three steps backward. The danger of drift is that it can easily take you back...
View ArticleThe Strategic Stasis in the India-China Relationship
Why does a serious, rational and realistic discourse on China in India, and vice versa, still elude our respective grasps? A confusing and diffi cult question no doubt, but one which calls for an...
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