India-China relations

New Delhi’s plan to rename sites in Tibet – a response to China’s own renaming blitz in Arunachal Pradesh – is “tantamount to India reopening the Tibetan question.”

Political and security tensions are on the rise, but so is the value of China-India trade. 

Despite flashes of actual conflict along their border, and New Delhi’s increased outreach to the West, relations between China and India have never completely broken down.

India has kept a close watch on China’s activities and responded strongly where its security was directly affected.

As bilateral ties strengthen, will India disrupt its ambiguous Taiwan policy?

Authors Shivaji Das and Yolanda Yu explore the “love and turmoil” faced by Indian-Chinese interracial relationships.

There was no thaw, but 2023 brought some promising stabilization in the relationship between Beijing and New Delhi.

Once again, the pending visit of a Chinese research vessel to Sri Lanka has touched off Indian objections.

China views India’s growing security cooperation with concern, especially since the revival of the Quad in 2017 and in the context of border tensions since 2020.

India dabbles in opposing camps, for example, engaging in simultaneous military exercises with both the U.S. and Russia in an effort to balance its strategic interests. 

This has brightened the prospects of a Xi-Modi handshake at the BRICS summit and of Xi attending the G-20 summit in Delhi.

With Xi possibly visiting India for the G-20 Summit in September, some hope for a tempering of tensions. But that might just be wishful thinking.