Articles

China’s influence in Asian Geopolitics: Implications for India

China, in Xi Jinping’s words, is a building a “new model” of major-country relations, and crafting a policy of building relations with neighbouring countries, based on “amity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness”. Geographically speaking, C....

December 18, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , China , Commentary , OBOR , Asia , Indian Ocean , BRI , India China Relations , China’s influence in Asian geopolitics

The Chennai Connect in Sino Indian Relations: Assessing the Second India-China informal Summit at Mamallapuram, 11-12 October 2019

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The optics of the second Sino-Indian informal summit held at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage site Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu was great. Chinese President Xi was given a warm welcome by Prime Minister M....

October 14, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , India China Relations , Modi Xi summit , Sino-India informal summit , Mamallapuram

Will DaMo help NaMo and Xi at Mahabalipuram?

S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

It is strategic civilisational diplomacy at its symbolic best. Narendra Modi found that his second informal summit with Xi Jinping at Mahabalipuram in 2019 had been fixed 1,500 years ago by a prince of the Pallava dynasty, which ruled Mahabalipuram f....

October 11, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , China , Article , Xi Jinping , Narendra Modi , India China Relations , Modi Xi summit

Rise of China, History, Technology, Policies: Implications for India

Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd), Consultant, VIF

Since opening up to foreign trade and investment and implementing free market reforms in 1979, China has become the world’s fastest-growing economy. China has transformed itself from a predominantly agricultural economy into a manufacturing powerho....

October 09, 2019 Rise of China , China 2025 , Chinese Involvement in Indian Economy , India China Relations , Monograph