Joe Thomas Karackattu is Associate Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. <a href="/profile/jtKarackattu">Click here for details profile</a>
Writings on India–China relations in recent years are increasingly seen to be imputing Machiavellian realism to the political and, increasingly, economic sphere of interaction.
The SED should eventually create a greater interface at the sub-national level by including other arenas of cooperation like defence, tourism, sports, and cultural interaction involving a wider exchange at the level of people.
This Brief outlines the practical and ideational role that BRICS can play as a grouping, in reforming the global financial system and in the norm-setting processes in world politics. The Brief also discusses some challenges BRICS countries are facing to realise their goals in the short to medium term.
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.
Exciting times for Taiwan
Like in earlier elections in Taiwan this time too the polls are a close contest both at the Presidential and Parliamentary levels.