Jagannath P. Panda

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's Piece on Australia-India-Japan  relations, titled ‘The Australia-India-Japan Trilateral Need a Post-COVID Outlook; has been published as Indo-Pacific Analysis Brief, by the Perth USAsia Centre, on June 09, 2020. 

The piece essentially argues that Australia, India and Japan are three powers whose strategic interests have converged significantly in recent years – yet there remains space to turn shared interests into joint actions. In the face of increased Chinese assertiveness and declining US reliability, the Australia-Japan-India trilateral could play an important regional balancing role post-COVID-19.

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• Published: 9 June, 2020

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's piece on G-7 Expansion, titled ‘Trump's Expanded G-7 Gamble’ is published in Japan Forward (an online newspaper of the Japan Forward Association Inc), on June 08, 2020.

The piece essentially argues that, the strategic motivations behind President Trump’s G-7 expansion are at present undeclared. But creating a grouping that combines the top economies of the world, with the exception of China, points towards a major anti-China narrative that seeks to remodel the economic alliance structure in a post-COVID order.

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• Published: 8 June, 2020

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's piece on Indo-China Border Dispute, titled ‘Breaking Down the India-China Border Standoff’ has been published by South Asian Voices, an online portal of the Stimson Centre, Washington DC, on June 03, 2020.

The piece essentially argues that Chinese actions on the border with India seem to be driven by domestic pressures. The trigger for the ongoing border tensions preceded both the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Consultative Conference (CPCC) – the most vital annual political discussions and advisory meetings in China

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• Published: 3 June, 2020

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's Op-ed on China’s digital Silk-Road ambitions, titled ‘India must stay alert to Beijing's techno-national gambit’ has been published in The Sunday Guardian on May 25, 2020.

The piece essentially argues that the increased reliance on the virtual world can prove to be a major boost to China’s digital “Silk Road” ambitions. As India deals with the pandemic, it along with the world must synergise a way to resist Chinese exploitation of the “new normal”. Prime Minister Modi’s “Skill India”, “Make in India” and self-reliance aims must be given added momentum to compete and create alternatives to Beijing’s technological influence to ensure a continued implementation of international standards, security walls and strategic advantages in the increasingly tech-reliant world order.

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• Published: 25 May, 2020

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's piece titled ‘COVID-19 Crisis Highlights Importance of US-India Ties’ has been published at the East West Centre as East West Wire on May 22, 2020.

The piece argues that the US and India both have a lot to gain from greater cooperation, in healthcare specifically and in strengthening international institutions more generally. A stronger India-US partnership can make an important contribution toward improving the leadership of global institutions such as the United Nations Security Council and the World Health Organization and restoring confidence in the global rules-based order.

• Published: 22 May, 2020

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's OpEd on U.S.- China Strategic Competition, titled ‘Amid COVID Pandemic, China Revs Up Its U.S. Strategy’ has been published in Japan Forward on May 18, 2020.

The piece essentially argues that strategic communities in China have always maintained that U.S.-China relations are intertwined in the changing geo-political environment, hence maintaining stable relations has become increasingly difficult. In such a background, Beijing has realized that the current global recession arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic could emerge as a significant game-changer in its strategic competition with the United States in just the way the 2008 global financial crisis contributed to its relations with Washington. In the Chinese outlook, the 2008 global financial crisis exposed loopholes of American soft power by revealing the drawbacks in the Washington Consensus model, originating from a capitalist world framework.

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• Published: 18 May, 2020

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's on piece India-Japan alliance, titled ‘India and Japan should seize chance to form close alliance’ has been published in Nikkei Asian Review on May 14, 2020.

The piece essentially argues that both India and Japan must take note of the potential decline of global dependence on China, especially in the Indo-Pacific region, where they could forge serious cooperation. Such cooperation could also include partnership with the U.S. and Australia.

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• Published: 14 May, 2020

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's chapter titled "India’s Approach to the ‘Quad’ and the Salience of China" has been published in Ash Rossiter and Brendon J. Cannon (eds.), Conflict and Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: New Geopolitical Realities (Routledge, 2020).

The chapter essentially argues that New Delhi’s perspectives towards the Quad consultative forum is not an explicit move against China but rather is a calculated strategic move to protect its own interests, including maritime interests and ambitions, in view of a “revisionist” China in the Indo-Pacific.

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• Published: 11 May, 2020

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's article on India and Japan’s bid for UNSC Seat, titled ‘India, Japan Must Shift Strategies to Get U.N. Security Council Seat’ has been published by Japan Forward, the English online edition of the Japanese newspaper, ‘The Sankei Shimbun’, on May 06, 2020.

The Op-ed argues that an asymmetric alignment, while representing a lack of symmetry, must not be taken to mean a lack of balance. Combining the best of their strengths, a united India-Japan bid for permanent membership will gain broader support by powers like the U.S. for whom both nations are key Indo-Pacific partners.

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• Published: 6 May, 2020

Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's co-authored commentary on North Korea’s COVID-19 claims, titled ‘What Does North Korea’s Zero COVID-19 Claim Signify?’ has been published in 38 North, at Stimson Centre in Washington DC, on April 28, 2020.

The commentary essentially argues that North Korea has claimed from the outset of the coronavirus pandemic that it has no COVID-19 patients within its territory. The political motivations for this bold claim, which can only be validated with a nationwide testing program, are likely public pressure to address national anxiety over COVID-19 and the regime’s desire to assert its authority. However, the North’s deteriorating health care system and its clandestine relations with China and Russia might encourage Pyongyang to disclose the number at some point.

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• Published: 28 April, 2020