Gunjan Singh

Contributions

Pelosi’s visit: Who Won? An after Review

September 01, 2022 Gunjan Singh

United States’ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan can be regarded as one of the most surprising events in the international politics. The last visit by a United States speaker to Taiwan was 25 years ago. The major reason given by her fo...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, Xi Jinping, Taiwan, Chinese Communist Party, United States, China-Taiwan relations, Tsai Ing-wen, Chinese Domestic Politics, Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, China-US relations, One China Principle

कोरियाई उपमहाद्वीप में नए अंत का आरंभ

August 06, 2018 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

उत्तर कोरिया में प्योंगचांग शीतकालीन ओलिंपिक खेलों से पहले लगभग साढ़े तीन महीने की उच्चस्तरीय �...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Hindi, Commentary, अमेरिका-उत्तर कोरिया संबंध, उत्तर कोरिया परमाणु निरस्त्रीकरण

Beginning of a New End in the Korean Peninsula

June 28, 2018 Dr Teshu Singh

After almost three and a half months of high-powered diplomacy leading up to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in North Korea, the first meeting between a sitting United States and a North Korean leader took place on 12 June 2018 in Singapore. The mee...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Indo-Pacific, Commentary, US-North Korea relations, Denuclearisation of North Korea

Modi Xi-Summit: All About ‘Feel Good’!

May 10, 2018 Gunjan Singh

The informal meeting between the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on April 27-28, 2018, has raised a lot of hope that there may be a new policy direction to improve the bilateral relations. Both the leaders showed ...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, Modi-Xi talks, Building Sino-India trust

Commentary : Xi Secures his Wish List for the ‘New Era’

March 26, 2018 Gunjan Singh

The past month has witnessed significant political developments in China which have altered the structure of the Chinese domestic political system and may lead to an acute concentration of power and Mao-style personality cult. The developments have a...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, China’s 13th NPC, China’s CPPCC, New Era, political developments in China, NPC, Xi, CPC, Chinese Parliament

Book Published / Book Reviews

‘China’s Future’, by David Shambaugh, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016, Pages: 203, Price: $ 19.95, ISBN: 978-15095-0714-6

August 28, 2018 Gunjan Singh

The path which China will pursue in the coming future is one of the most debated and discussed topic among the current academic and policy making circle. The direction which Chinese politics, society and economy adopt almost directly impacts a large ...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Xi, Chinese economy, CCP, Book Reviews, Chinese society, Chinese politics

VIF Briefs

Evolution of China-Sri Lanka Relations

September 26, 2018 Gunjan Singh

Over the last ten years China has been paying renewed attention to its ties with Sri Lanka. There has been a large rise in Chinese investments in various projects in Sri Lanka. Beijing has also diplomatically supported Colombo on various issues, espe...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, China, Sri Lanka, China-Sri Lanka Relations, South Asian region

Xi Jinping Continues China’s Repressive Policies in Xinjiang

June 29, 2018 Gunjan Singh

… The CCP has adopted harsh repressive measures towards Xinjiang since the very beginning … has been pushing policies to change the basic religious and cultural fabric of Xinjiang as it wants a more ‘tailor made’ Uighur population, which will...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Repressive measures in Xinjiang, Persecution of Uighurs, Uighurs

Xi's Tightening Control over the Media

May 18, 2018 Gunjan Singh

... The Chinese media has successfully invented novel ways to bypass the authority of the state since 1978. But after Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, the balance has shifted heavily in favour of the government. Xi has adopted a host of new methods ...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Chinese Media, Media Control in china, CCP

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