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RTD on Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: A Report

The recently concluded Tenth Summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Kazakh capital Astana was the focal point of a Round Table Discussion (RTD), held at Vivekananda International Foundation on Jun 20, 2011. The discussion revolved aro....

July 01, 2011 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Interaction , UN sanctions , SCO , Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
China and Vietnam: Delicate Balance of Natural Allies
Debasish Chaudhuri

The recent row between Vietnam and China in the South China Sea is yet another illustration of ‘peaceful rise of China’. It began in the last week of May and continued through second week of June, when in two similar incidents, exploration cables....

June 20, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Chinese Moves on the Brahmaputra: Threat or Hype
Jaideep Saikia

Water—one of the most important natural resource on earth—has taken centre-stage in the North East and is steadily becoming a weapon of geopolitics. It began as a mass movement engineered by the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti and its demand to halt....

May 24, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
China in the Af-Pak Region
Debasish Chaudhuri

There have been lot of conjectures and apprehensions regarding the role China would play in Afghanistan since Obama in his New Afghan Policy proposed July 2011 as a dateline for commencing the withdrawal of American troops, eventually leading to a co....

May 24, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
New Leadership and Challenges for Tibetans-in-Exile
Debasish Chaudhuri

Tibetan society did not enter into transformational stage until it had faced brutal forces of the communist China in 1950 which led to the so-called revolutionary transformation of the subjugated community. The real transformation of the traditional ....

May 05, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Defending China: PRC’s Defence White Paper 2010 and Military Transparency
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

As part of its effort towards bringing in more transparency in military affairs People’s Republic of China has been regularly churning out its white papers on national defence since 1998. Progressively, China has been increasing the length of....

April 11, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
China’s Defence Budget (2011-12)
Sanjay Kumar

Amid growing international concerns, the People’s Republic of China presented its latest defence budget on 4 March 2011, a day ahead of the opening of the Republic’s Ninth National People's Congress. The budget shows a marked increase of 12.6 per....

March 16, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Enter The Dragon
Dr Adityanjee

Hu Jintao, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CCP) recently came visiting the US. For the reasons of protocol he donned a different hat and was feted by the mainstream American media as the President of the Peoples' Republic of Ch....

January 27, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Hu's Visit Shouldn't Worry US
Amb Kanwal Sibal

President Hu’s just concluded US visit has naturally attracted international attention, as the challenger was meeting the champion, as it were. The US is seen as a slowly declining power, and China a rapidly rising one. The dwindling of US power w....

January 25, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
PLA Navy’s Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile: Challenge to India
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

Modernisation of PLA Navy (PLAN) is one of the important planks of China’s revolution of military affairs with indigenous characteristics. The Defence White Papers of China issued regularly after every two years have laid great emphasis on developm....

January 18, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Military Affairs_91
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