THREAD:
Sitting at home during the #JantaCurfew, decided it would be a good time to revisit some of the arguments @samirsaran and I made in our book #PaxSinica. Many of our hypotheses are on full display during the #COVID19 crisis.
Sitting at home during the #JantaCurfew, decided it would be a good time to revisit some of the arguments @samirsaran and I made in our book #PaxSinica. Many of our hypotheses are on full display during the #COVID19 crisis.
International Institutions:
China has steadily occupied leadership positions in international institutions, advancing its agenda and enforcing its domestic politics. We had cited examples from China's behaviour at the @UN, the @icao, the @WHO, @INTERPOL_HQ & @UNESCO.
China has steadily occupied leadership positions in international institutions, advancing its agenda and enforcing its domestic politics. We had cited examples from China's behaviour at the @UN, the @icao, the @WHO, @INTERPOL_HQ & @UNESCO.
The @WHO's behaviour amidst the #COVID19 outbreak strongly suggests continued deference to China's interests:
theprint.in/opinion/chinas…
theprint.in/opinion/chinas…
But China's propaganda on social media during the #COVID19 outbreak better demonstrates a little known strategy that we had explored in our book: "borrowing a boat to go out into the ocean".
In other words: using foreign media to supplement its propaganda.
In other words: using foreign media to supplement its propaganda.
Divide and Rule in Europe:
China has long attempted to break key states from Central and East Europe away from the EU's orbit.
It sees in the #COVID19 outbreak an opportunity to accelerate this process through targeted emergency aid.
China has long attempted to break key states from Central and East Europe away from the EU's orbit.
It sees in the #COVID19 outbreak an opportunity to accelerate this process through targeted emergency aid.
Economic Coercion:
China has used control over supply chains to punish those that displease Beijing.
It has already threatened to cut essential supplies to the Philippines and the US amidst the #COVID19 outbreak, just as it did to Japan in 2010 during another crisis.
China has used control over supply chains to punish those that displease Beijing.
It has already threatened to cut essential supplies to the Philippines and the US amidst the #COVID19 outbreak, just as it did to Japan in 2010 during another crisis.
The Paradox of Power:
It is unsurprising that China has used a crisis of its own making to deflect attention away from its failings and advance its bid for global power. #COVID19
Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power has made him uniquely vulnerable. #PaxSinica
It is unsurprising that China has used a crisis of its own making to deflect attention away from its failings and advance its bid for global power. #COVID19
Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power has made him uniquely vulnerable. #PaxSinica
The Indian Imperative:
How should India respond? It must demonstrate that the #IdeaofIndia is a better proposition in the post-COVID19 world than #PaxSinica.
#PaxSinica is available online: amzn.to/2Up8weh
How should India respond? It must demonstrate that the #IdeaofIndia is a better proposition in the post-COVID19 world than #PaxSinica.
#PaxSinica is available online: amzn.to/2Up8weh
