Articles By Kanwal Sibal
India’s China Syndrome
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 29 May , 2013
India-China relations are complex enough not to be seen in black and white terms. Amidst all the good reasons for India to mistrust China and deal with it as an adversary, it makes sense to work...
Bowing down to the dragon
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 14 May , 2013
Our statements on the recent India-China face-off in Ladakh continue to confound. One would have thought that we would have analysed the incident in depth, tried to figure out China’s...
Guns, Helicopters and the Treaty
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 27 Apr , 2013
The United Nations general assembly has approved the arms trade treaty on April 2, causing India some discomfiture. India participated actively in the negotiations but could not endorse the final...
Let’s not get too relaxed on China
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 24 Apr , 2013
Reports of Chinese soldiers intruding 10 kilometres into Ladakh challenge once again our assumptions about the stability of the situation on the unsettled India-China border. Our expanding...
India: Strategic Challenges and Responses
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Apr , 2013
At the outset let me clarify that I will discuss the subject primarily from the foreign policy and security point of view. Many believe that strategic challenges should now include those...
Anti-Lanka vote was a bad idea
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Mar , 2013
India has ended up looking opportunistic and unprincipled, a victim of its internal political wrangling, with a government in New Delhi not fully in control of foreign policy. India has once...
Italy goes back on its word
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 16 Mar , 2013
The latest turn of events in the Italian marines case is most unfortunate for both India and Italy as the bilateral relationship is being put under serious strain. The Indian side had greater...
Adrift Without A Strategic Culture
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 12 Mar , 2013
Does India have a strategic culture? If strategic culture is defined narrowly in the context of the nuclear age alone, then India, as a recent entrant to the nuclear club and still in the process...
Build a stronger partnership with France and Britain
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 06 Mar , 2013
The back-to-back visits of the president of France, Francois Hollande, and the prime minister of Britain, David Cameron, last month have put the spotlight on India’s relationship with Europe....
Failing On Terror Yet Again
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Feb , 2013
Hyderabad is bloodied again by terrorism, exposing once more our failure to marshal the political will, the legal instruments, the organizational structure and the required technical skills and...
Giving Delhi Some Parisian Delight
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Feb , 2013
The French President’s visit will further strengthen the strategic relationship between both countries France was first to offer a strategic dialogue after our 1998 nuclear tests, forswear...
India's compass on terror is faulty
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Feb , 2013
Afzal Guru’s hanging shows the ineptness with which our political system deals with the grave problem of terrorism. The biggest challenge to our security, and indeed that of countries all over...
Friendly Handshake: Change is unlikely in India-US relations
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 29 Jan , 2013
Looking ahead, what could President Barack Obama’s second term mean for relations between India and the United States of America? Will the relationship stay more or less at the level that it has...
Pakistan the nettlesome neighbour
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jan , 2013
India-Pakistan ties: Pakistan has to act like a civilised country and do serious introspection about its destructive attitudes and policies. We need to take proper stock of our policy towards...
Pakistan: Time to end unilateral concessions
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 19 Jan , 2013
Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh’s remark that there can be no business as usual with Pakistan after its troops mutilated the bodies of two Indian soldiers they killed, and that those...
India and the South Asian Neighbourhood
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013
India’s relations with her neighbours need to be analysed frankly and unsentimentally, without recourse to the usual platitudes when pronouncing on the subject. It is fashionable to assume that...
Still comrades after all these years
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 28 Dec , 2012
The India-Russia summit saw positive formulations on many issues, while providing an opportunity to address difficult questions like Kudankulam. Russia was the first country with which India...
Method in the madness
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 27 Dec , 2012
If it was wrong to invite Pakistan’s interior minister Rahman Malik to India because he prevaricates on investigations into the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and lets Hafiz Saeed make hate...
Rehman Malik’s visit: Going by the script
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 18 Dec , 2012
All those who have criticized the Indian government’s decision to invite Pakistan’s interior minister Rahman Malik to the country to operationalize the revised liberalised visa regime have...
Bested by China’s Strategy
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Dec , 2012
China’s two-track policy towards India, that of targetting our territory as well as our market is proving effective. The Chinese calculate that they can periodically rile India politically...