East Asia

About Centre

The East Asia Centre is dedicated to studying the domestic and foreign policies of the region as well as India’s multifaceted relationships with the major countries of this region. With respect to China, the Centre’s research foci are its foreign policy, domestic politics, economy, military affairs, and India’s relations with China in all its dimensions. It monitors developments in China’s autonomous and special administrative regions. The Centre also focuses on Taiwan with reference to cross-Strait relations, ties with the US, India-Taiwan relations and domestic politics. The Centre researches Japanese and Korean affairs. Its major research focus is on their domestic politics, foreign policy and comprehensive bilateral relationships with India. It follows the developments in the Korean peninsula and inter-Korean relations. The geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific is studied at the Centre too.

The Centre brings out five monthly newsletters: East Asia Military Monitor, Japan Digest, China Science and Technology, Korea Newsletter, and China Military Digest.

India’s Season of Summits

The world needs India as a balancer – in trade, as a market, as an alternative model, and as a world power.

Sujit Dutta
December 30, 2010
IDSA Comments

India-China Relations: It’s the economy, and no one’s stupid

This Brief uses irony to communicate five propositions, that can be found in several discourses on Sino-Indian ties. It evaluates these propositions in the light of the tangible and intangible gains from Premier Wen Jiabao’s second official visit to India.

Power, Interdependence and China’s Rare Earth Moment

The conflict over rare earths is not only a consequence of the monopoly amassed by China but is also reflective of the current flux in global power hierarchies.

Yogesh Joshi
December 28, 2010
IDSA Comments

Japan’s Revised Defence Guidelines: Proactive Dynamism Pervades “Reluctant Realism”

Would China’s strategic error in inviting Japanese hostility place more blocks to its rise as an unchallenged regional power or would it be able to override the Japanese threat in ample measure by altering its strategic game and finding a meeting ground with the United States?

Preeti Nalwa
December 27, 2010
IDSA Comments

Sino-Indian Relations

China has all along been testing the limits of India’s tolerance and restraint and has once again given the Indian foreign ministry much home work for the next few months.

Ramesh Phadke
December 27, 2010
IDSA Comments

Naoto Kan’s Remarks strain Relations with South Korea

Kan’s statement about sending the SDF to the Korean peninsula to rescue Japanese citizens and people of Japanese origin in the event of an emergency has raised the spectre of a possible revival of Japanese militarism.

Rajaram Panda
December 20, 2010
IDSA Comments

China threat propels a new defence thinking in Japan

Japan’s adoption of a new defence Guidelines to secure its southern “outlaying islands” closer to China suggests major shift in Japan’s Cold War security policy.

Shamshad A. Khan
December 20, 2010
IDSA Comments

Address Sensitive Issues and Build Mutual Trust during Premier Wen’s India Visit

Primer Wen’s visit should be devoted to enhance mutual trust and confidence but this should not be done by brushing longstanding problems under the carpet.

Arvind Gupta
December 13, 2010
IDSA Comments

India-China Economic Engagement: Time to insert COINs

An initiative focusing on collaboration and innovation (COIN) in energy, health, infrastructure, and knowledge-intensive industries has potential to overcome emerging fissures and enhance India-China economic relations.

Kalyan M. Kemburi
December 09, 2010
IDSA Comments

Wen Jiabao’s India Visit: Evaluating the Strategic Context

Wen Jiabao’s visit provides ground to bring better clarity on the Chinese stance over a range of critical issues to India, and to ask whether the sentiments expressed in 2005 were merely rhetorical.