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India-Maldives Relations, Changing Contours

Image Credits- VOA I have been away from active blogging for the last few months and had not written any blog. In the meantime, the world has changed considerably. North Korea- South Korea in the path of reconciliation. Many things have changed. But today I intend to deal with a particularly troubling relationship between two close allies at one time, that is India and Maldives.  Maldives is an island nation in the Indian Ocean. It is lies adjacent to the Indian territory of The Lakshadweep Islands. India and Maldives established bilateral relations in the year of 1966. Since then the relationship has grown by leaps and bounds. The high point of the relationship was "Operation Cactus" when India militarily intervened to save Maldives from invading Tamil militants from Srilanka. India has been the main provider of aid and assistance to Maldives for many years. That is until Maldives started tilting to China. China sees Maldives as the main cog in it's ambitious B

India resets it's engagement with China

Image credits- VOA As India resets it's relationship with China entering a face of pragmatic diplomacy where India seek to protect it's vital national interest and stand up to China, The Diplomat examines the issue in detail. You can read the entire article by clicking here

China-India Relations After the NSG Plenary ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Deep pal)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping ( Image credits- Flickr/ MEA, Govt of India) Source- The Diplomat Author- Deep Pal Few analysts following developments at the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) plenary in South Korea expected India’s membership bid to sail through. As the dust settles, what is clear is that Xi Jinping’s China differs considerably from Hu Jintao’s China. The latter did not want to stand alone; the former is on the path to establishing China as the challenger in the global order – and understands that such a project is necessarily a lonely pursuit. Beyond the arguments of whether or not joining the NSG accords India additional advantages, what stood out over the past month is the Modi government’s impressive ability to set a concrete objective, and pursue it with great coordination. While Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar was leading India’s charge in Seoul, the prime minister himself brought up the issue with Xi in Tashk

This Is What Could Start a War between India and China ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Palmo Tenzin)

INS Jalashwa underway ( Image credits- Indian Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Palmo Tenzin While everyone’s anxiously watching and analyzing the events unraveling in the South China Sea, there’s another resource conflict involving China that also deserves attention. In the Himalayas, China and India are competing for valuable hydropower and water resources on the Yarlung Tsangpo–Brahmaputra River. The dispute offers some important lessons for regional cooperation (on more than just water), and highlights what’s at stake if China and India mismanage their resource conflict. The Yarlung Tsangpo–Brahmaputra River is a 2,880km transboundary river that originates in Tibet, China as the Yarlung Tsangpo, before flowing through northeast India as the Brahmaputra River and Bangladesh as the Jamuna River. The resource conflict began on June 11, 2000, after a natural dam-burst in Tibet caused a flash flood that resulted in 30 deaths and serious damage to infrastr

Modi’s China Visit: Beijing Remains Unyielding – Analysis ( Source- Eurasia Review / Author- Namrata Hasija)

Image credits- Flickr / MEA Official gallery Source- Eurasia Review Author- Namrata Hasija The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, recently concluded his three-nation tour of China, Mongolia and South Korea. Of the three, the most anticipated was the visit to China, after which both sides have claimed to have achieved ground breaking results. From the Indian point of view there were some important issues that were on the table for discussion, such as the border issue, trade imbalance, water sharing and Chinese investment in India. The imperative question is what did Prime Minister Modi bring back for India? A record 45 agreements were signed during the visit, including 24 inter-governmental agreements in outer space, cyberspace, earthquake preparedness, maritime science, smart cities, consular establishment, finance, education, exchanges between political parties, states and provinces, think tanks and so on. In the field of economics, 21 business agreements were

The Chinese 'Century' Is Already Over ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Gordon G.Chang)

Image source- Flickr / Credits- MEA Official gallery Source- The National Interest Author- Gordon G. Chang On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry completed a two-day trip to Beijing. The day before, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi wrapped up his three-day visit to Xian, Shanghai, and Beijing. Everyone, it seems, is going to China, implicitly acknowledging that this is indeed its century. In reality, however, the period of Chinese primacy, if it ever existed, is just about over. Neither Modi nor Kerry was in any mood to accommodate Beijing on core issues. We start with Modi. The Indian leader was happy to travel to China to pick up commitments for Chinese investment into his country, and on this score, he appeared successful. On Saturday, he inked twenty-six memos of understanding for business deals valued by his government at $22 billion.  Modi, however, was not persuaded to agree to what Beijing wanted. He did not, for instance, endorse Chinese pre

India’s Newfound Spine in Dealing with China ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Harsh V.Pant)

Prime Minister Modi in China  ( Image source- Flickr ? Credits- MEA Official gallery) Source- The Diplomat Author- Harsh V.Pant For all the pomp and circumstance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to China will likely only be remembered for his plain-speaking. And it is by no means a small achievement. For years, Indian political leaders have gone to China and said what the Chinese wanted to hear. Modi changed all that when he openly “stressed the need for China to reconsider its approach on some of the issues that hold us back from realizing full potential of our partnership” and “suggested that China should take a strategic and long-term view of our relations.” In his speech at Tsinghua University too, Modi went beyond the rhetorical flourishes of Sino-Indian cooperation and pointed out the need to resolve the border dispute and in the interim, clarify the Line of Actual Control to “ensure that our relationships with other countries do not become a source of c

China Unlikely To Give Up ‘Pakistan Card’ In Its Outreach To India – Analysis ( SOurce- Eurasia Review / Author- Dr. Subhash Kapila)

Image credits- Flickr / MEA Official Gallery Source- Eurasia review Author- Dr.Subhash Kapila China’s persistent strategy is to play the ‘Pakistan Card’ against India both as leverage and its strategy of coercion against India. Prime Minister Modi on his visit to China next week will face a more subtle playing by China of its ‘Pakistan Card’. In fact, much before Indian Prime Minister’s visit to Beijing, China played its ‘Pakistan Card’ against India on a more gigantic scale when Chinese President Xi visited Pakistan last month and unveiled China’s massive outlay of $ 44 billion in the proposed China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. It was not an economic move only as it was accompanied by China’s decision to supply Pakistan with six Chinese submarines and over 100 frontline Chinese fighter combat aircraft. So, in actual fact, Chinese President Xi signalled two forceful messages to India, as follows: India-US Strategic Partnership evolving proximity supplemented by

A More Aggressive India ( Source- The Diplomat, Author- Ali Ahmed)

Indian Army in action ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons) Source- The Diplomat Author- Ali Ahmed With the dust having settled after the heaviest artillery and mortar exchange of the past decade on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, the situation is now clearer. India has intimated a change in policy, from merely having a shield to also wielding a sword. Defence Minister Arun Jaitley insisted that Pakistani “adventurism” would meet with “pain.” However, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval also promised that if Pakistan behaved then India would be willing to let the rising tide of its economy lift all regional boats. For its part, Pakistan has used its prime minister’s foreign policy and the NSA to spell out that it will not accept India’s hegemonic designs and will settle only for “meaningful” talks that lead to a settlement on the outstanding issue of Kashmir. Its army chief has vowed an “effective” response, while the more colorful former military d

Coming to the Indian Ocean, the Chinese Navy: How Should India Respond? ( Copy Right @ The National Interest, Author- James Holmes)

INS Kolkata, D-63 ( Image credits- Indian Navy) Sources- The National Interest Author- James Holmes Chinese submarines prowling South Asia’s briny deep? No longer is this some hypothetical prospect. A nuclear-powered People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type 093 Shang-class attack boat was sighted cruising regional waters last winter. Indian naval proponents long maintained that Beijing would cross a redline if it dispatched nuclear subs to the Indian Ocean. It would set Sino-Indian maritime competition in motion—a seesaw process with unforeseeable repercussions. And just last month, a Type 039 Song-class diesel-electric boat put in an appearance in the region, tarrying at Colombo in company with a submarine tender. The Song was presumably en route to counterpiracy duty in the Gulf of Aden. And indeed, these undersea patrols set commentators aflutter on the subcontinent. “China’s Submarines in Indian Ocean Worry Indian Navy,” blared a typical headline. Why get exercised ov