#37
18 September 2015 		‘CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING’S FIRST STATE VISIT (SEPTEMBER 23-28, 2015) TO USA’
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first state visit to the US later this month is important and comes amidst escalating testiness in the Sino-US bilateral relationship and growing wariness in the higher echelons of the Chinese leadership about US intentions.
#22
15 September 2014 		INDIA CHINA RELATIONS – AN INTROSPECTION
Analyses the trends and fault-lines in India-China relations after 1962
#15
09 May 2014 		THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS
Mr. Menon's speech at the inauguration of CCAS on the significance of India-China relations
#14
09 May 2014 		CHINA'S NEW POLICY OF PERIPHERAL DIPLOMACY
The end objective of China's peripheral diplomacy is to use alternative strategies to achieve global leadership.
#16
09 May 2014 		CHINA IN TRANSITION
Valedictory Address at the Chennai Centre for China Studies on March 8, 2014
#17
09 May 2014 		BEIJING: A BULL in AFRICAS CHINA SHOP?
Deconstructs the recent visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Africa
#20
05 July 2014 		GEOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS
Analyzes China's foreign and strategic policies and particularly in the context of India- China relations
#21
17 July 2014 		CHINA'S PROPOSED MARITIME SILK ROAD (MSR): IMPACT ON INDIAN FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICIES
Analyzes the repercussions of the Maritime Silk Road (MSR) proposal for India
#42
06 November 2015 		CHINA: THE FIFTH PLENUM OF THE 18TH CCP CC (OCT 26-29, 2015)’
The 4-day (October 26-29, 2015) eighth session of the 18th Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s Central Committee (CC)’s Fifth Plenum has, as expected, further strengthened and consolidated Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s authority and position. The 5,923-character Communique issued promptly after the Fifth Plenum on October 29, 2015, exuded confidence as it firmly set out the path for reforms with the focus on all-round development and asserted China’s goals for the next five years including that of “building a moderately prosperous society by 2020”. There were, interestingly, few references to ‘stability’ despite the steadily growing number of popular protests which China officially estimates at more than 500 each day, and the ‘Chinese Dream’ unveiled by Xi Jinping at the 18th Party Congress in November 2012 was enshrined in the Plenum Communique.
#43
11 January 2016 		‘MAJOR STRUCTURAL REFORMS IN PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY (PLA): BRIEF INITIAL ASSESSMENT’
The crucial phase of the major military reforms -- described as 'far reaching and unprecedented' -- that were publicly announced on September 3, 2015, by Xi Jinping, who is concurrently the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), President of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), began to be implemented over New Year’s Eve. While the reforms have yet to be fully implemented, an initial assessment of the difficulties in implementation and their scope would perhaps be useful.
#40
03 November 2015 		XI JINPING AND CHINA’S MAJOR MILITARY REFORMS -- 2015
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s public announcement downsizing the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at the grand military parade on September 3, 2015, was a major event. It signalled that the final stages of reform and reorganization of the PLA would begin now that internal consensus had been reached. Despite the transparently thin attempt to package the 300,000-personnel troop reduction as a move towards promoting peace, the troop reduction is actually part of a long-planned effort to streamline and strengthen the PLA and fashion it into a hi-tech, lethal, ‘informationised’ force capable of defending China’s national interests at home and abroad while expanding China’s strategic space.
#33
08 June 2015 		‘BRIEF ANALYSIS OF CHINESE OFFICIAL MEDIA REPORTING ON PRIME MINISTER MODI’S VISIT TO CHINA’
Brief analysis of the Chinese official media reporting on the Indian Prime Minister Modi's visit to China