IDR Blog
Are India and China Drifting Apart?
Indian and Chinese National Security Advisors (NSAs) Ajit Doval and State Councillor Yang Jiechi are scheduled to meet in Hyderabad, India in the first week of November to review bilateral relations and regional developments. Hugging and selfie diplomacy is over. It is back to the brass tracks. Core interests are to the fore. Doval and...
Special Force needed after India Ignores Border Intrusions on the Chinese Side
India is facing difficult situation on its borders; not only for the LoC with Pakistan, but also for the LAC with China. Between 200 and 300 Chinese intrusions inside the Indian territory occur every year but for the sake of the ‘normalization’ with Beijing, Delhi is keeping rather silent. There is perhaps a solution to improve the...
Russia’s confrontation with NATO by Securing Eastern Flank
Russia’s ongoing confrontation with the US-led NATO Alliance on its Western Flank could not have been strategically possible but for an understanding that its Eastern Flank in Asia Pacific would be secured by China as part of the Russia-China nexus. Such a strategic understanding between Russia and China has serious implications for Indian...
Patel: Why He Died
I am posting today a letter from Sardar Patel to Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, the Secretary-General of the External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations Ministry. It is dated November 4, 1950, four weeks after the Chinese had entered Eastern Tibet. This raises a serious question: very little research has been done on the last weeks of Patel’s...
With Myanmar, India is following a different path from China's
The recent India visit of Myanmar’s National Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (her first official visit) was significant for a number of reasons that allowed both sides to send a clear message that they are keen to expand their relationship and not to look at the bilateral ties through a narrow lens. Suu Kyi, who participated in the BRICS-BIMSTEC...