https://www.scmp.com/rss/325357/feed Prateek Joshi works as a research associate with VIF India, a New-Delhi-based public policy institution. Previously, he worked on a project with IDSA, a think tank funded by the Ministry of Defence. His research areas include Sino-India relations, Indo-Pacific, Indo-Pak ties and colonial frontier policy. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin his second term on May 30 after his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured an expanded majority in the lower house of parliament by winning 303 out of 542 seats. If the election was a referendum on Modi’s leadership, he has emerged with a powerful new mandate: both for his domestic brand of Hindu nationalism and his muscular foreign policy, particularly as it relates to neighbouring Pakistan. Indeed, India’s relationship with Pakistan became one of... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3011827/why-pakistan-believes-narendra-modis-bjp-government-can-bring-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3011827/why-pakistan-believes-narendra-modis-bjp-government-can-bring-it?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 May 2019 02:00:12 +0000 Last month’s suicide attack by the terrorist group Jaish e Muhammad, killing 40 Indian soldiers, and the rise in militancy in the Kashmir valley since 2014 have taken hostilities in the region to new levels. The strikes by the Indian Air Force on a militant training facility in Balakot, followed by the Pakistan Air Force’s retaliatory air strikes (and threats to exercise the nuclear option) showed the difficulties New Delhi faces in responding to such conditions through conventional means. With... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2189036/indias-security-dilemma-pakistan-one-it-cant-bomb?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2189036/indias-security-dilemma-pakistan-one-it-cant-bomb?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Mar 2019 04:02:15 +0000 After the revival of much hyped Quad alliance between Australia, India, Japan and the US last year, Washington has moved towards institutionalising its vision for the Indo-Pacific with the renaming of the US Navy’s Pacific Command as the Indo-Pacific Command. Lately, hostilities have been on the rise between the United States and China against the backdrop of the latter’s deployment of missiles and advanced military equipment in the Spratly Islands. The Pentagon’s plans to confront China with... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2149770/india-reluctant-partner-us-south-china-sea-strategy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2149770/india-reluctant-partner-us-south-china-sea-strategy?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Jun 2018 03:32:40 +0000 After relations between China and India reached a new low during last year’s Doklam stand-off, New Delhi’s China policy has taken a sharp turn this year, in what could be interpreted as a reversal of its previous stance. In recent months, India has not only supported China’s vice-presidency in the Financial Action Task Force, an intergovernmental agency combating money laundering, but Delhi also withdrew its support from a commemorative event marking the 59th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising.... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2139393/why-india-walking-away-its-tit-tat-china-policy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2139393/why-india-walking-away-its-tit-tat-china-policy?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Mar 2018 06:00:30 +0000 Almost a month after the Sino-Indian tensions over the Doklam plateau ended with mutual disengagement, a string of aggressive diplomatic engagements by New Delhi have had distinctly China-centric undertones. During the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to India earlier this month, both nations pledged to embark on an alternative geo-economic vision in response to China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” and resolved to strengthen their footprint in the Indo-Pacific region. US Secretary of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2113179/indias-overtures-us-and-japan-demonstrate-its-post-doklam?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2113179/indias-overtures-us-and-japan-demonstrate-its-post-doklam?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Sep 2017 03:53:35 +0000