India-China relations

Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A Maestro of Foreign Policy

TP Sreenivasan

As Prime Minister, Vajpayee’s contributions far exceeded his foreign policy successes

The Power of Choice

Shashi Tharoor

India can leverage its partnership with the US to advance its geopolitical interests without provoking a volatile and vindictive China

Buffer Story

Open

The buffer zones, which involved a pullback from specific friction points on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) by Indian and Chinese troops, remain but patrolling has been restored to full extent

India in Today’s World

Krishnan Srinivasan

And the way forward

Resumption of Indian Patrolling Along LAC Reduces Salience of Buffer Zones

Rajeev Deshpande

Border breakthrough happened as keeping troops locked up in Himalayas delivered diminishing returns to China more than four years after the bloody clash at Galwan

Beijing Backs Down

Rajeev Deshpande

The India-China border thaw indicates Chinese tactical incursions along the Line of Actual Control have reached a point of diminishing returns

BJP in America

Open

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with BJP volunteers in the US who worked behind the scenes for his public engagements

Tread Carefully

Brahma Chellaney

Any peace deal should not be about formalising China’s strategic advantages

Modi 3.0 Faces the Dragon

Harsh V Pant

Is greater economic engagement with China feasible at a time when New Delhi is moving closer to Beijing’s red lines on Taiwan, Tibet and South China Sea?