Articles

Salami Slicing, Fait Accompli and Buffers: What Next?

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The contradictions are stark. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has often opined that relations with China are not normal, because India will not agree to any attempt to change the Line of Actual Control (LAC) unilaterally. Stating again ....

March 23, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , PLA , Aksai Chin , LAC , Tawang , buffers

India China Border Dispute Packets of Information to Continuous Spectrum

Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

China Factor: A Seven Decades Old Dispute Debated on Packets of Information

In recent times - especially after the Galwan incident of 15 June 2020, Sino Indian border dispute is the most intensely debated topic in Indian media. The cont....

January 27, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Aksai Chin , Sino-India border disputes , Depsang Plains , Annexation of Tibet , Kongka incident

India-China Military Standoff at LAC in Ladakh Sector - Whither from here?

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The 14th round of Corp Commander level military to military talks took place on 12 Jan 2022 to diffuse the ongoing military standoff between India and China. The situation emerged almost two years ago in May 2020 after China undertook military build-....

February 11, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , China , PLA , Aksai Chin , LAC , Ladakh , Galwan , Pangong Tso , Podcast , Kailash Range , Buffer Zone , CBM , Chushul-Moldo , Gogra

Origin and Growth of Sino Pak Nexus against India: Suggested Tenets of Indian Response

Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

An Assertive and Proactive India

The Surgical Strike in Uri Sector (2016¹, Doklam standoff (2017)² and air strike in Balakot³ have portrayed an assertive and proactive Indian response to the Chinese and Paki....

July 06, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , China , Pakistan , Article , Belt and Road Initiative , Aksai Chin , Sino Pakistan Nexus

Influences and Performance of Intelligence: Assessment of Intelligence Inputs in 2020 Ladakh Military Standoff

Col Pradeep Jaidka (Retd.) Article

‘The further one looks back, the further he looks ahead’ Historically, military might alone served as the primary instrument of national power and for securing national interests. Later diplomacy, economic power, science and technology ....

February 03, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Tibet , Article , UAV , Aksai Chin , Ladakh , ISR , Pangong Tso , intelligence gaps , PLA Tibet

India-China Line of Actual Control: Increasingly Fuzzier…

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Though comparisons are odious, Line of Control (LOC) and Line of Actual Control (LAC) are chalk and cheese! The Karachi Agreement of 1949 delineated the Ceasefire Line (CFL), following directional paths in the absence of clear landmarks, by demarcati....

January 29, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , LoC , Aksai Chin , LAC , Pangong Tso , salami slicing , Simla Convention , Scarborough Shoal

Inflexion in Sino-Indian Relations: Case for Strategic Pragmatism

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The new China has shown itself as muscular, aggressive, expansionist and determined to force its way to top of the world stage by vigourously establishing Pax Sinica. China’s in the past three decades has been rapidly growing economically ....

August 21, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , QUAD , PLA , BRI , Aksai Chin , COVID-19 , LAC , Ladakh , CBMs , Pangong Tso

Eastern LADAKH (EL) and Siachen: The Geo-Strategic Obstruct

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Indeed, the Soltoro Ridge with the Shyok River to its West, the Siachen Glacier and the Nubra Valley and the Saser Muztagh with the Shyok River to its East, is a great geostrategic obstruct to any collusive designs of Pakistan and China. With the Sha....

June 17, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , China , Siachen , Aksai Chin , Galwan , Eastern Ladakh , Gilgit-Baltistan , Shyok , Trans Karakoram Tract , ISR

Five ‘T’s of China-India ties

Dr. Pankaj Jha Commentary

Following the two informal summits between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Wuhan (2018) and Chennai (2019) the important question that is being asked within the academic circles in China is what could be the possible template....

December 16, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Kashmir , Terrorism , Belt and Road , Informal Summit , RCEP , trade imbalance , Aksai Chin , SR talks