Articles By Bhaskar Roy
China: Towards the 19th Party Congress
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 18 Oct , 2017
The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scheduled to start on October 18. The date was announced well in advance, indicating everything has been set, including personnel...
Who in China Instigated Doklam Stand – off? And Why?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 23 Sep , 2017
After over two month long military stand-off between the soldiers of India and China on the Doklam Plateau (claimed by Bhutan and also by China), disengaged almost simultaneously, both capitals...
The Doklam Standoff and Chinese Vitriol: Is there an Internal Problem?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 28 Aug , 2017
The incessant vitriolic attacks on India from the Chinese official media, the foreign ministry and the defense ministry on the Doklam issue is becoming tiresome. The tirade has included...
There is a method in China’s Doklam Stand
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 24 Jul , 2017
The basic issue is of making President Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” a success. This a hugely ambitious project that he has launched and he cannot fail. And at the moment, he cannot back...
Doklam Standoff-China Violates agreements with India and Bhutan
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 11 Jul , 2017
On June 16, a Chinese PLA construction party entered Doklam area and attempted to construct a road. Doklam, on the edge of Chumbi valley and adjacent to the India-China-Bhutan tri junction is...
PM Modi’s Date with President Trump
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 20 Jun , 2017
Prime Minister Modi-President Donald Trump summit meeting is finally happening on June 26, in Washington, D.C. Some Indian commentators opined that this meeting should have happened earlier....
Can Moon Jae-in Cool the Korean Peninsula
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 20 May , 2017
Events in the Korean Peninsula have just been pulled back from the brink of a major disaster which could engulf the Asia Pacific region and impact the world at large. North Korea appears to have...
Examining the Strategy behind China’s OBOR
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 09 May , 2017
On May 14, representatives of 110 countries would be gathered in Beijing in one of the biggest international summits, to listen and discuss China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative. ...
China: Signs of an Expansionist Nation
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 26 Apr , 2017
Over the decades the People’s Republic of China has sold to the world the narrative that it is a self-contained power and has no ambition of coveting territories of other nations. This is far...
China’s Brinkmanship on Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 13 Apr , 2017
China has periodically raised the issue of Arunachal Pradesh as a disputed territory, and linked it to the resolution of India-China border issue. It has always protested visits by senior...
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina’s India visit is critical for South Asia
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 03 Apr , 2017
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s forthcoming three-day visit to India (April 07-10), after two postponements, mainly because of the Indian government’s preoccupation with domestic...
China’s Warning: Give us Tawang, or else
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 19 Mar , 2017
India-China relations have broadened over the years with not a single shot fired along the disputed borders since the signing of the Peace and Tranquillity Treaty between the two sides. Military...
India-China Strategic Dialogue – both have core interests
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 21 Feb , 2017
India and China will hold a new round of strategic dialogue in Beijing on February 22. The meeting will be co-chaired by Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister...
Pakistan’s Terror Machinery under International Pressure – China Lone...
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 19 Feb , 2017
Following US President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry of people from seven designated Muslim countries, and hints from the White House that more countries could be added to the...
Why India–Vietnam Military Relation Disturbs China
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 17 Jan , 2017
The Chinese official newspaper, the Global Times (January 11) in an article entitled “Indian arms same to Hanoi disturbing if aimed at China”, warned New Delhi that India must desist from...
China: Strategic Encirclement of India’s Core Interests
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 07 Jan , 2017
Having failed to constrict India within South Asia with its “String of Pearls” (an American euphuism) Strategy, China has now embarked on a new initiative to trip India’s growing...
Pakistan in Deep Deception – India has a Difficult Deal
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 22 Dec , 2016
Depression can be treated. But self-inflicted deception which hurts neighbours can be controlled to an extent if the patient is locked up in a padded cell. This self-deception is like a jigsaw...
China’s Naval Base in Pakistan Revealed: China’s New Global Game
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 08 Dec , 2016
Talking to The Express Tribune (Nov 25, 2016) Pakistani naval officers revealed that Chinese naval ships would be deployed at the Gwadar Sea Port to safeguard the port and trade under the...
Are India and China Drifting Apart?
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 03 Nov , 2016
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...
Goa BRICS Summit brought Terrorism to the fore but blunted by China
By: Bhaskar Roy | Date: 28 Oct , 2016
At the 8th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit held (October 15 to 16) in Goa, India revealed that the world was far from reaching a consensus on international terrorism,...