He is Member of the National Security Advisory Board and President of the Centre for China Analysis and Strategy. He was formerly Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India.)

Contributions 
China is Raising Tensions in the Taiwan Strait Tension across the Taiwan Strait has increased since Taiwan's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the Presidential elections for the third consecutive time in January 2024. The victory of the DPP's Lai Ching-te clearly signalled t...

Xi Jinping Reinforces Security Apparatus Amidst Growing Popular Discontent The slowing economy and increasing joblessness have contributed to the growing popular discontent in China. This has affected China’s entrepreneurs and there are indications that discontent has spread also to the ‘princelings’ and cadres in the...

Chinese President Xi Jinping Beset by Growing Popular Discontent Faced with increasing popular discontent, Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese leadership have since the 19th Party Congress in 2017 been focussed on trying to assert the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s pre-eminence in all sectors and ensur...

Indication of Disarray in PLA and Imminent ‘Rectification’ Campaign The senior echelons of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) appear to be in disarray. The unexplained long absences of Central Military Commission (CMC) Vice Chairman General Zhang Youxia and sudden removal of Defence Minister Li Shangfu, both ...

Tibet: The Fulcrum of China’s Strategic Policy in the Himalayas China is positioning Tibet as the fulcrum for its strategic policy in the sensitive Himalayan region thus directly and adversely impacting India. Beijing appears to have assessed that it has sufficiently calmed the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) to fe...

VIF Briefs 
China’s New Central Military Commission China unveiled its new military leadership the day after the 20th Party Congress concluded on October 23. The composition of the new Central Military Commission (CMC), each of whose members is a hand-picked loyalist of Chinese President Xi Jinping, s...

An assessment of the Second Plenum of China’s 13th National People’s Congress .. convened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in the first fortnight of March 2019, the annual plenary sessions set the agenda for the year ahead and accorded formal approval of the entire 89 million-strong Chinese Communist Party to the pol...

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