Articles By Sandip Kumar Mishra
President Biden and the Making of a New US Policy on North Korea
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 24 Mar , 2021
The change of leadership in the US means that a new strategy on North Korea will be articulated. This article looks at the developments in this regard: the ways in which the Biden presidency could...
Confronting an “Assertive” China: Nearly All Roads Lead to Taiwan
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Date: 01 Jan , 2021
China’s disruptive behaviour through 2020 has increasingly led the international community to become more vocal about the difficulty of coexisting with a Beijing that is “assertive,”...
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: An Indian Miscalculation?
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Date: 03 Dec , 2020
The conclusion of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) between China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, and 10 Southeast Asian countries is an important...
Japan's 2019 Defence White Paper and the Contest for Southeast Asia
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Date: 17 Oct , 2019
In Japan’s annual Defence White Paper released on 26 September, China’s growing military might has been given priority over North Korea’s belligerence as the country’s main security threat....
The Spectacle and Substance of the Trump-Kim Meeting
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Date: 12 Jul , 2019
US President Donald Trump walked into North Korean territory alongside North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on 30 June 2019. The summit meet between the two leaders in the southern side of the DMZ...
An Allied Approach to North Korea?
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Date: 18 Apr , 2019
South Korean President Moon Jae-in met US President Donald Trump on 10-11 April 2019 to bilateral relations as well as the future course of their dealings with North Korea. Although both these...
Trump-Kim Summit in Hanoi: Optimism Despite Impediments
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 26 Feb , 2019
The second US-North Korea summit meet, eight months after the Singapore Summit, is scheduled to take place in Hanoi on 27-28 February 2019. There is skepticism regarding the potential outcomes of...
Trump and the China-North Korea Equation
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Date: 24 Jan , 2019
US President Donald Trump is going to have a second meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in mid-February 2019. The core objective of this meeting is North Korea’s denuclearisation, which...
On the Sidelines of G-20: India's Third Way
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Date: 25 Dec , 2018
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in several bilateral and multilateral meetings on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Argentina. Such meetings are not unusual. However, this year,...
India-Japan Relations: Proximity to the Indo-Pacific Strategy
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Date: 19 Nov , 2018
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his third visit to Japan on 28-29 October 2018 to attend 13th Annual Summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Both countries reiterated their...
US-China Contestation and North Korean De-Nuclearisation
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 01 Oct , 2018
It is conventional wisdom that China’s role would be the most crucial in the process of de-nuclearising North Korea. North Korea and China share strong historical connections along with...
Trump, Kim, and Denuclearisation
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Date: 22 Aug , 2018
Almost two months since the Singapore Summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a sense of disappointment seems to have been gradually building with respect to...
Enhancing India-South Korea Relations
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Date: 21 Jul , 2018
South Korean President Moon Jae-in visited in India for a four-day trip from 8 to 11 July 2018, and both the countries resolved to add more substance to their partnership. Indian Prime Minister...
China’s Maritime Assertiveness and Repercussions
By: Sandip Kumar Mishra | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 09 Dec , 2015
With Chinese President Xi Jinping’s aggressive posturing in regional politics, Beijing appears to have moved beyond its old doctrine of ‘hide-your-strength-bide-your-time’ and gradually...