Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Jagannath Panda’s op-ed on China’s role in Korean Peninsula, titled ‘China’s role in the region will continue to remain a defining element in the Korean Peninsula’ was published in ‘The Asian Age’ on May 13, 2018.
The article analyses China’s role in the region as a defining element in the Korean Peninsula.
This book analyses the competing power politics that exists between the three major Asian powers - China, India, and Japan - on infrastructural development across the Indo-Pacific. It examines the competing policies and perspectives of these Asian powers on infrastructure development initiatives and explores the commonalities and contradictions between them that shape their ideas and interests. In brief, the volume looks into the strategic contention that exists between China's "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI; earlier officially known as "One Belt, One Road" - OBOR) and Japan's "Expanded Partnership for Quality Infrastructure" (PQI) and initiatives like the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) and position India's geostrategic and geo-economic interests in between these two competing powers and their mammoth infrastructural initiatives.
Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Jagannath Panda’s article on an informal one-on-one meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, titled ‘Modi’s Mann Ki Baat with Xi in Wuhan’ was published in ‘The Pioneer’ on April 28, 2018.
Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Jagannath Panda’s commentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, titled ‘Modi-Xi Summit: a New Beginning in India-China Relations’ was published in The Global Post on April 23, 2018.
Dr Panda argues that the meeting, scheduled for April 27-28, will not only be a major political rapprochement that could help to rebuild the current low-tide bilateral relations severely affected by the 73-day Doklam border standoff, but it will also redefine the India-China dynamics in the times to come.
Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Jagannath Panda’s opinion piece on Chabahar Port, titled ‘India's Chabahar approach needs grander strategic revisit’ was published in ‘The Pioneer’ on April 14, 2018.
Dr Panda argues how in a regional condition where cooperation comes along with competition, New Delhi needs to adopt a more open and versatile approach towards Chabahar that will enhance multiple strategic opportunities for India while preparing an inroad for an alternate passage to Central Asia.
Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Jagannath Panda’s commentary on the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, titled ‘India, the Quad, and the China Question’ was published in Asia Global Online on April 12, 2018.
The commentary reviews how Australia, India, Japan, and the United States make up the Quad, often seen as a response to an increasingly powerful and competitive China. However, the commonality and contradiction of interests that India shares with China makes New Delhi’s perspective somewhat different from that of the other Quad countries.
India should carefully understand the evolving foreign policy strategy of China under Xi Jinping, and notably, his worldview, and try to position bilateral relations accordingly.
Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Jagannath Panda’s Oped on China’s defence budget, titled ‘Beijing’s defence budget unveils grand security ambitions’ was published in The Asian Age on March 12, 2018.
Dr Panda, in the oped argues that the increase in China’s defence budget is closely linked to the goal of transforming the PLA into a ‘modern, mechanised, IT-based force’.
Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Jagannath Panda’s Op-ed piece on the Maldives crisis tiled ‘Male and the Elephant-dragon Power struggle’ was published in The Asian Age on February 18, 2018. The article analyses how the ongoing Maldivian crisis is emerging as a geopolitical tussle between China and India to influence the island country’ political Affairs, and how the economic powerhouses are trying to stamp a mark on the archipelagic nation’s political future in the Indian Ocean.
Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Jagannath Panda’s commentary on India-China relations in 2018, titled ‘Year of Doklam' points to a conflicting China-India relation in 2018’ was published by WION on December 27, 2017.
