Business Now Asia Pacific (BNAP) Today Interview on India-China relations post-Galwan and other developments including Quad- July 15, 2020

On July 15, I did an interview with Australia-based Business Now Asia Pacific (BNAP) Today on the India-China Galwan clash, where I argued that the Galwan clash is pushing a major shift in India’s security and foreign policies and how the changing Sino-Indian relationship is influencing India’s relations with QUAD and QUAD Plus countries.

For the full interview, click here.



Some of the major points I made include:

1. Difficult to imagine that it will be business as usual after Galwan.

2. India has shown growing commitment to groupings such as the Quad, which has now been upgraded to ministerial level engagements; Quad Plus in the Covid context; Australia could be invited to the Malabar naval exercises.

3. India is yet to make a decision on the 5G but in all likelihood, Huawei will be blocked. Even prior to the Galwan clash, India had its apprehensions but after the last month clash, signing up with China is extremely unlikely.

4. India’s pharma industry will be affected for instance because we still buy a lot of the chemicals from China. Like I said, India will need to bite the bullet and go through some hard times because the economic impact will be significant.

5. Here is the need for the Indo-Pacific powers to come together to take decisions to consciously diversify their over-dependence on China and engage with each other even in the face of some difficulties.

my interview with the Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV on the recent Chinese incursions....

Here's the link to my interview with the Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV on the recent Chinese incursions....


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a recent interview of mine on the new Chinese defence White Paper....

Here's a recent interview of mine on the new Chinese defence White Paper, conducted yesterday.

There may have some minor improvements in terms of giving some information on the PLA strength, this does not include the PAP, the militia or the Second Artillery Force (SAF). Information on the SAF is fairly important as they are in charge of China's missiles and strategic weapons.




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an interview of mine on China overtaking the UK as the fifth largest arms exported in the world....

Given here is a link to an interview of mine on China overtaking the UK as the fifth largest arms exported in the world.

The latest SIPRI arms transfer data showed that China has become the fifth largest arms importer in the world, a position that the UK had held for decades.





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an interview of mine on the overal state of bilateral relations between India and China....

Here's an interview with the Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV on the overall state of India-China relations, particularly in the political and strategic domains. This has been a few months old now.

Of course, the state of relations are not the best despite the fact that trade between the two sides has been strengthened in the last few years. However, the impact of trade and economic relations on the overall relations have been limited.




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China's E-Passport row... a few months back. an interview of mine with the Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV....

Here's another interview of mine, again with the Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV on the Chinese E-passport row....





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India-China economic dialogue... does trade alter the nature of interstate relations.... my interview with Phoenix TV

Here's an interview of mine on the strategic economic dialogue that took place between India and China on November 26, 2012. The interview was done a day before the dialogue looking at the prospects and challenges of this interaction.

Does trade really change the nature of relationships between states? If trade had such an influence, US and China should have been the best of friends!




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My interview with the Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV on India's approach to South China Sea, Southeast Asia.....

Here's an interview I did with the Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV on India's approach to Southeast Asia and on South China Sea.... The interview was done sometime in the beginning of the year.

How India approaches South China Sea and how it approaches its relations with countries such as Vietnam and Philippines will significantly impact on India's dealings with China, most particularly the border and territorial issues.





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My interview with the Voice of Russia ....

Here's an interview of mine with the Voice of Russia on the developments in Asia Pacific including US-China relations, the new Chinese leadership.

Burning Point → Asian Pacific region: Cooperation or confrontation

What are the strategies of major regional players? How successful have they been in expanding their ties with other countries in the region? And what is it that we are going to witness there – the development of the working relationship, or rather a stand-off, between China and US over the control of the Asia Pacific?

We’ve been looking into the issue with the help from Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, India, and Alexander Gabuyev, expert on China and participant of the UN Millenium Program.

To hear the full interview, click here.

The text of the interview is available here.



Today we’ll be focusing on the Asian Pacific region – a location that has been playing an increasingly important role in the global politics and hence, has become an arena of growing competition between two of the world powers – China and the US.