China

Great Game East: India, China and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier by Bertil Linter, Publishers: Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2015

Cchavi Vasisht, Research Associate, VIF

Arthur Conolly, an intelligence officer of British East India Company, conceived the expression “great game” to define the strategic rivalry between the British and the Russian empires to acquire supremacy in Central Asia. It was further used to...

May 26, 2020

Tags: British East India Company, China, Indian Subcontinent, Sino-India, Southeast Asia, China, International Relations and Diplomacy

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor of the Belt and Road Initiative Concept, Context and Assessment by Siegfried O. Wolf, Springer, Switzerland, 2020, £88, ISBN 978-3-030-16198

Aakriti Vinayak, Research Associate, VIF

The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative that was officially launched in April 2015, promised to be a game changer. The economic corridor that would link Kashgar in Xinjiang to Gwadar in...

May 23, 2020

Tags: Belt and Road Initiative, China, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC, China, Neighbourhood Studies

China’s Great Leap Forward-II, by Lt Gen Gautam Bannerjee, PVSM, AVSM, YSM (Retired), Lancer Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, India, 152 pages, INR 595/-, 2019

Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

The Great Leap Forward was a campaign run in the People’s Republic of China from 1958 to 1962. Chairman Mao Zedong led the campaign and the aim was to transform an agricultural economy to a socialist society through rapid industrialisation and...

May 31, 2019

Tags: BCIM, China’s Great Leap Forward, CMEC, CPEC, OBOR, PLA, Republic of China, China, International Relations and Diplomacy

‘China’s Asian Dream’, by Tom Miller, London: Zed Books, 2017, Pages: 256, Price: USD 20.29, ISBN 978-1-78360-923-9

Dr Teshu Singh, Research Fellow, VIF

The One Belt One Road Initiative or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most widely discussed topics in the Chinese Foreign Policy. It has been five years since the launch of the BRI. On 17 May 2013 and 7 September 2013, Xi Jinping...

November 22, 2018

Tags: BRI, China Strategy, OBOR, One Belt One Road, China, International Relations and Diplomacy

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

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...

August 28, 2018

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

Avoiding the Fall; Michael Pettis; Carnegie Endowment 2013; PP 157; Price Rs 1238 & The Great Rebalancing; Michael Pettis; Princeton University Press 2013; PP 219; Price Rs 1859

Amb Prabhat P Shukla

Book Review Imbalances in Global Economy: Averting another Crisis

It makes sense to review the two books together and not just because they are written by the same author, and within a short period of each other [both were written in 2013]. The more compelling reason for doing so is that they deal with the same...

April 7, 2014

Tags: Chinese economy, GDP growth, Global Economy, China, International Relations and Diplomacy