The Security Risks of CEPC—an Analysis of Balochistan

LuoYawen

Balochistan is an important investment destination for CPEC. Its success has a huge impact on the strategic channel between Arabic Sea and Xinjiang, and also the comprehensive image of OBOR. Therefore, it has a long-term influence on our national interests. However, the severe security environment of Balochistan has affected Chinese enterprises and personnel more frequently, impeding the progress of CPEC projects. This article believes that the key to solve Balochistan issues is to see through the appearance to perceive the essence, so that we can understand the origin of different types of terrorist attacks. Only then we can find solutions and improve the security situation in Balochistan.

India's “Indo-Pacific” Strategic Cognition and Its Impact on the Construction
of the “Maritime Silk Road of the 21st Century”

WangYing

With the strategic concept of “India-Pacific” put forward by Australia and America, India has had a positive response on it. The cognition of Modi government on the concept of “Indo-Pacific” reflects that India is not satisfied with the reality of geopolitics and wants to expand its maritime strategic space with the help of marine powers. This will undoubtedly affect the promotion of the “Maritime Silk Road of the 21st Century”. Although the Indian government has not formally issued any “Indo-Pacific” strategic concept plan, the transformation and position of India's role in the Asia-Pacific region leads it to form a more open strategic cognition, in an attempt to promote its potential strategic combination with America, Japan, Australia and other countries. Therefore, China should take the initiative to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with India, enhance strategic mutual trust, and establish necessary preventive mechanisms so as to promote the smooth implementation of the construction of “the Maritime Silk Road of the 21st Century”.

Analysis of India's “Economic Decoupling” from China under the
“Indo-Pacific” Strategy

WangChunyan&GuoJianwei

Since 2020, India has frequently obstructed China-India economic cooperation on the ground of national security,and used regulatory or non-regulatory methods to suppress and restrict the legitimate investment and trade activities of Chinese companies in India, thereby disrupting normalcy of bilateral economic exchanges and cooperation. This is widely regarded as India's seeking to “decouple” the Chinese economy. This article analyzes the relevant behaviors and major cases of India's “economic decoupling” from China from India's “Indo-Pacific” perspective. The author believes that the gradual formation of India's “Indo-Pacific” strategy on the one hand emphasizes clear demands for economic interests and attaches importance to seeking cooperation with countries in the region in the maritime economy and other fields; on the other hand it plays an important role in the structure and strengthens its ability to compete strategically with China, and India's attempt to “decouple the economy” from China is a concrete manifestation of achieving this goal.

The Current Situation and Future Trend of Economic Containment on China
by the US and India under the Covid-19 Epidemic

NiuWeigan&MaGuibiao

The sudden outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic has had a huge impact on the world economy, politics, and diplomacy, exposing the shortcomings of global governance. In this context, the economic containment on China by the United States has also been further strengthened in this storm. At the same time, the rise of India, another major power in Asia, has become an important resource used by the U.S. In the early stage of the outbreak, the United States and India's containment on China has become a confluence, and they have fully interfered with China from the economic, military, and diplomatic levels. As the adjustment of major power relations caused by the epidemic becomes more complicated, the uncertainty of the China-US-India triangle relationship will increase. However, the normalization of the U.S and India's economic containment against China will not change in a short period of time. At best, the choice of strategies will become more diverse. In this regard, China must always be vigilant and prepare for the challenges posed by the United States and India to China's economic development from the angle of internal and external circulation.

Comparative Study on the Competitiveness of Chinese and
Indian Pharmaceutical Industries

WangLiu&HuZhiyi&LuoYongjun

In order to explore the way to improve the competitiveness of China's pharmaceutical industry, this paper takes India, which holds an important position in the international pharmaceutical market, as the comparison object, through establishing the evaluation system of pharmaceutical industry, using THE GRA-TOPSIS method and introducing THE RCA indicative comparative advantage index, to describe the evolution characteristics and driving factors of the competitiveness of Chinese and Indian pharmaceutical industry. The results show that in the global pharmaceutical industry competition, both China and India belong to the second tier, and both China and India have achieved rapid rise and lead each other in segments. The driving factors for the comprehensive competitiveness of the pharmaceutical industry in the two countries are different. China is more competitive in pharmaceutical products and medical devices, while India is better at competing in the pharmaceutical field represented by generics of ANDA. China should continue to expand its global dominance in pharmaceutical products, medical devices and other fields represented by APIs. In the pharmaceutical field, China should strengthen its learning from India and continuously improve the competition and cooperation structure of the pharmaceutical industry of the two countries, and establish a multi-level cooperation mechanism from the national level to the private level.

Indian Presidential Power and Its Significance to the Ruling Party under
the Background of the Strong Rise of the BJP

MaoYue

The Indian Constitution has broad and vague provisions on the powers of the president. The president has legislative power, executive power, and advisory power, as well as considerable space for autonomy. In the history of political development in India, the president has repeatedly used power when the prime minister-parliamentary system is not functioning properly to push the country's political life back on track. He has also repeatedly sought to expand the power within the constitutional boundary and to establish clear, operable, and sustainable political conventions to exercise presidential powers more effectively. In the history of Indian political development, there are many examples of powerful ruling parties using the power of the president to achieve political goals. In the context of the strong rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the power of the president is unlikely to directly restrict the ruling party, but the ruling party has begun to use the power of the president to realize its political aspirations within the constitutional framework.

China-India Boundary Issues Since Modi Came to Power: Research Based
on Indian Public Opinion

GuanPeifeng&WanJia

Since Modi came to power, China and India have experienced peace and harmony with frequent high-level exchanges of visits, and have faced the difficulties of bilateral relations caused by border confrontations several times. This article takes the reports and comments of mainstream Indian media and think tanks on the Sino-Indian border issue after the events such as the Doklam confrontation, the Wuhan-Chennai summit and the 2020 confrontation on the western section of the Sino-Indian border as the research objects, then clarifies their main concerns and representatives. On the basis of clarifying their main concerns and representative views, this paper focuses on the analysis of the causes and effects of India's negative public opinions on the Sino-Indian border issue. Based on the above, this article believes that it is necessary to effectively suppress the negative influence of India's China-related public opinion. On the one hand, we need strengthen cooperation and exchanges between the mainstream media and think tanks of the two countries. On the other hand, the governments of both China and India need to actively guide public opinion to make media reports and comments as objective and neutral as possible.

Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Its Cause and Impact
on Politics and Diplomacy

BaiLu&ZouZhengxing

India is one of thecountries most severely affected by the COVID-19. Since April 2021, the second wave of the pandemic in India has spread rapidly at home and abroad due to its high pathogenicity and contagiousness. This is mainly the result of multiple factors at the pathological level, social level, policy level and international level. The second wave of the pandemic has a profound impact on India's domestic politics and diplomacy. Regarding domestic politics, the Indian government's ineffective response to the pandemic has damaged Modi's image as a political strongman, and the process of unifying India's political arena by BJP with Modi at is core has been blocked. In addition, the Indian government has adopted a “double standard” policy in the fight against the pandemic. Hindu nationalists have used the pandemic to stigmatize domestic Muslims and marginalized minority groups, resulting in more prominent ethnic and religious contradictions in India. Diplomatically, the loss of control of pandemic domestically, the spreading of pandemic peripherally and the end of “vaccine diplomacy” are not conducive to the establishment of India's image as a responsible major country; the international blockade under the pandemic has also greatly delayed the Modi government's diplomacy process; the pandemic has also compressed India's policy space for maintaining strategic autonomy, and the US-India coordination has been further strengthened; India's politicized manipulation of the pandemic has also exacerbated the security dilemma between China and India. The aftermath of the second wave of the pandemic in India is still existing, coupled with India's low vaccination rate and serious shortage of supplies, the future prospects are still not optimistic.