Avinash Godbole

Avinash Godbole is Research Assistant at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.

A Year since Xinjiang Riots: Are the faultlines manageable?

July 9, 2010

Nationalistic imaging of the People’s Republic based on the Han identity could be the biggest obstacle to the pluralist solution that the contemporary situation in Xinjiang requires.

Ideology sans Jargon? Contextualising Xi Jinping’s Politics of Simplification

May 24, 2010

Xi Jinping's attempt to dejargonise political language is timely. however, how it impacts the ideology is going to be important.

Google China ‘Warfare’: Turning a non issue to win-win strategy

April 5, 2010

If freedom of expression was the issue then other American internet service companies like Microsoft and Yahoo! should have also exited China along with Google.

Contradictory Tendencies in the India-China Relationship: Does it help the bilateral relationship?

March 10, 2010

Contradictions in India-China relations provide the rationale for greater engagement exactly like it has done in the case of US-China relations.

Sixty Years of The People’s Republic of China

September 23, 2009

Once an exporter of Chinese style Communism and isolated internationally, today’s China is the mainstay of the capitalist world exporting a large quantity of what the world imports.

Sino US Climate Pact: Context, text and subtext

August 10, 2009

The United States and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral cooperation on energy, climate change and environment during their recently concluded strategic and economic dialogu

Finally, US action on Climate Change takes the first baby step

July 1, 2009

The United States House of Representatives passed a landmark legislation H.R. 2454, the "American Clean Energy and Security Act," by a narrow margin of 219-212 on 26 June 2009.

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