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.
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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.
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In other words: using foreign media to supplement its propaganda.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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