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India and China: It’s complicated

India and China: It’s complicated

India Inc. Staff2018-09-19T07:49:07+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, India & China, Year|

An assertive China presents Prime Minister Modi with his most intractable foreign policy challenge, but there are indications that Beijing may be getting a little edgy. Mahatma Gandhi had said of his adversaries: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Much to the chagrin of many in New Delhi’s policy circles who saw India as a counterweight to China, Beijing has, at least publicly, refused to treat India as an equal. [...]

Thinking out of the box: Reconfiguring the India-Pakistan-China Triangle

Thinking out of the box: Reconfiguring the India-Pakistan-China Triangle

India Inc. Staff2018-06-12T12:57:35+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, India & China, Year|

A foreign policy observer believes it is time for India to move towards a more flexible approach towards China. It has been suggested that New Delhi’s bid for membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) was an “extraordinary exercise in realpolitik”, that the Indian government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi “is not easily rattled by disapproving noises at home or abroad”. One analyst referring to China’s opposition put it rather colourfully that Beijing behaved “not as an enlightened power but [...]

China is simultaneously a threat and an opportunity

China is simultaneously a threat and an opportunity

India Inc. Staff2018-06-12T12:55:24+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, India & China, Year|

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has struck a delicate balance of engaging with China where there is mutual benefit and standing up to the South Asian neighbour where India’s strategic interests demand. Dealing with China is arguably Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most daunting foreign policy challenge. That’s because it is difficult to fit the Middle Kingdom into any of the comfortable stereotypes that Indian diplomats have got used to. The first problem is one of definition. How does one categorise China? [...]

Fact Sheet: An Indian in Beijing

Fact Sheet: An Indian in Beijing

India Inc. Staff2020-03-12T08:24:01+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, India & China, Year|

Beijing is the capital of the People’s Republic of China and the world’s third most populous city. While its history dates back over 3 millennia, Beijing is known as much for its modernity as its ancient tourist hotspots.

Improving India-China trade relations is key for Asian century

Improving India-China trade relations is key for Asian century

India Inc. Staff2018-08-01T12:20:45+00:00February 8th, 2017|2017/2018, December 2017, February 2017, India & China, India & The World, Year|

Asian equations, specially between the two giant economies of China and India will be in focus with the installation of Donald Trump as the 45th US president. Trump’s belligerent ‘America First’ foreign and commercial policy stance, will in all likelihood, force China to curb its manufactured goods exports to the US, with whom it has a whopping and patently unsustainable trade surplus of nearly half a trillion dollars! It is unlikely that even US MNCs, which have huge export bases [...]