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Chinese Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe’s official visit to Sri Lanka on 27 April 2021 has sparked a conversation on strengthening defence ties between the two countries. This paper sheds light on the gradual growth in military relations and explains the significance of adding this new dimension to the existing solid bilateral relationship.
Introduction
General Wei Fenghe, Defence Minister and a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, officially visited to Sri Lanka between 27 and 29 April 2021, with a delegation of 37 high-ranking officials. General Wei is also a member of the Central Military Committee and State Councilor. He is the second senior official to visit Sri Lanka in less than a year. In October 2020, foreign policy chief Yang Jiechi visited Colombo, marking the first-ever Chinese visit in the South Asian region since the COVID-19 pandemic. While the visit has been reported to be a
The Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) at the National University of Singapore held a virtual roundtable on 27 May 2020, a year after India’s 2019 general election. The purpose of the roundtable was to discuss the medium-term implications of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) victory on India’s political system. In particular, a key question that we posed to the participants was whether India is living through a phase akin to that of the 1950s and 1960s a phase when the Congress party exercised an overwhelming dominance over India’s politics, the “Congress system,” as Rajni Kothari (1964) put it. Is a “BJP system” in place in post-2014 India? The collection of articles in this section looks at the kind of system that has come into being since the 2014 elections. In this introduction, we briefly highlight some of the themes that the authors analyse in their essays.
India has reason to be anxious about China stance on J&K â foreign policy analyst Raja Mohan
C. Raja Mohan says underneath the principle of India-China non-intervention lies mutual concerns about issues relating to territorial sovereignty.
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New Delhi: India has reason to be anxious about Chinaâs position on the Jammu and Kashmir issue with Pakistan, given the Narendra Modi governmentâs 2019 decision to alter the constitutional status of its territories, according to Dr C. Raja Mohan, director of the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore.
Raja Mohan made these remarks at the K. Subrahmanyam Memorial Lecture organised by the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA) in New Delhi Thursday, while explaining the complexities behind the principle of non-intervention.
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