With 2014 marked as the Chinese New Year of the Horse, India and China have galloped together into taking new strides in their bilateral relations.
India-Israel Defence Cooperation and the Modi-led Government
China is about to operationalise a 1 GigaWatt (GW) nuclear power reactor at Karachi in Pakistan, highly-placed sources within the scientific community warn. Two more are in the pipeline in Karachi and three more in other parts of the country. This represents a quantum leap from the much smaller reactors hitherto supplied by Beijing to Islamabad, and is also the first time that such advanced technology has been demonstrated globally.
Future Weapon Technology-Directed Energy Weapons
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been trying to promote Yunnan as a gateway to both South and Southeast Asia for nearly two decades now, in order to bring in much needed investment for developing its south-western hinterland, covering more than 60 percent of its total landmass. With an area of 394,000 square kilometres, Yunnan shares 4.1 percent of the PRC’s landmass and is its eighth largest province.
The Sino-Indian Border Talks and its Implications for Bilateral Relations
A passage or a corridor is that geographical entity which represents a connection between two or more places. In international relations, a corridor becomes significant not merely because of the places it links but also because of the relative location where it is situated. Hence corridors demand and deserve a lot more attention than just those places that it attempts to unite. However, very often instead of focussing on the significance of the corridor, value is given to those two or more regions which are linked with the help of the former.
China Gifts Pakistan Mega Nuclear Power Plants
More than half-a-century ago, in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet to take refuge in India after the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Prior to the signing of the Agreement on Trade between Tibet Autonomous Region and India in 1954, India had acknowledged Tibet’s de facto independence’. However, subsequently, India modified its position on Tibet by recognising Chinese suzerainty over Tibet.
‘Opening Up’ Yunnan: What are the Chinese Objectives?
Holistic Approach and ‘Enduring International Rivalry’
The Siliguri Corridor: The Insecurity Within
Problematizing the Individualistic Approach
India’s Vulnerabilities vis-a-vis Tibet and China
Allegations of Aggression: The Blame-Game between India and China
Sino-Indian Border Dispute: The Impossible Settlement, and Need of a New Framework – Part 4 of 4
History is a contested space for political narrations, and no single country can lay undisputed claim over the narratives of past happenings. Sino-Indian border dispute falls under a similar realm of contested history. Despite sixteen rounds of talks between India and China on the ‘contentious boundary issue’, both countries have till date failed to come to agreeing terms on the issue of resolving border dispute.
Sino-Indian Border Dispute: The Impossible Settlement, and Need of a New Framework – Part 3 of 4
No First Use (NFU) and punitive retaliation have been core components of India’s deterrence based Nuclear Doctrine. As much as this is an a priori concept, the fact that New Delhi has never been embroiled in an all out nuclear war with either Pakistan or China, is testimony enough of its credibility. After all, it is argued that the only utility of nuclear weapons is to prevent a nuclear war in the first place.