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    China vs India: Evolving Security Footprints in Central Asia
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    Dr Daniel Balazs

    Research Fellow
    : [email protected]
    : +65 6513 2038
    : IDSS

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    Biography

    Daniel Balazs is a Research Fellow in the China Programme of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from NTU. His current research interests include international security, Chinese foreign policy, China-Russia relations, China-Central Asia relations; China and the Global South; China and multilateral organizations, such as BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation; China-India relations, especially the China-India border dispute; the Belt and Road Initiative; and China-EU relations. He has also contributed to a book chapter on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. He has contributed various Op-Ed articles that appeared on outlets such as The Diplomat, East Asia Forum, Foreign Policy, among others.

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    Areas of Expertise

    • International security
    • Chinese foreign policy
    • China-Russia relations
    • China-Central Asia relations
    • China and the Global South
    • China and multilateral organizations, such as BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
    • China-India relations, especially the China-India border dispute
    • Belt and Road Initiative
    • China-EU relations

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    External Publications

    Journal Articles

    • “Emerging Soft Turn in China’s Energy Security Cooperation with Southeast Asia” (with Xue Gong) in China Review, Vol 21, No. 4, 2021. pp. 109-140
    • “China’s India Policy in the 1950s: From Friendship to Antagonism” in Strategic Analysis, Vol. 44, No. 6, 2020, pp. 542-552
    • “China’s India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World, by Bertil Lintner” in Journal of Defence Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1-2, 2020, pp. 137–141

    Chapters in Edited Books

    • “Modern Silk Road Imaginaries and The Silk Road” in Maximilian Mayer, Rethinking the Silk-Road: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Emerging Eurasian Relations. London: Springer Nature Link, 2017, pp. 205-226

    Op-Eds

    • “China vs India: Evolving Security Footprints in Central Asia”, The Diplomat, 5 February 2025
    • “What To Expect From China-India Relations in 2025”, China Global South Project, 14 January 2025
    • “China vs India: Economic Outreach to Central Asia”, The Diplomat, 3 January 2025
    • “The Sino-Indian Border Deal And Eurasia’s Emerging Strategic Landscape”, Eurasia Review, 13 December 2024
    • “China–India pact a borderline solution”, East Asia Forum, 29 November 2024
    • “Why the EU and China will not form a united front against Trump 2.0”, Modern Diplomacy, 25 November 2024
    • “EU-China tit-for-tat tariffs aren’t really a trade war”, Asia Times, 7 November 2024
    • “The ‘’New Normal’ of Sino-Indian Economic Relations after Galwan”, China-India Brief #248, 31 October 2024
    • “The overlooked triangle: China, India, and the EU” (with Xue Gong), China-India Brief #188, 14 September 2021
    • “Sino-Indian border spat: do not poke the distressed dragon”, China-India Brief #166, 8 September 2020
    • “What should EU do when China and India lock horns?”, Euobserver, 25 August 2020
    • “Archival Research in China: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way”, War on the Rocks, 27 January 2020
    • “匈牙利视野中的中国“一带一路”, 同济大学出版社,2017年版, 第26-55页, 31 December 2017
    • “Setback in Sri Lanka for China’s silk road”, East Asia Forum, 24 May 2017
    • “Is China on the Road to International Isolation?”, The Diplomat, 21 January 2017
    • “President Xi’s Silk Road Conundrum” (with Patrick Mendis), China-US Focus, 24 October 2016
    • “Why China Isn’t Too Worried by Expanding US-India Ties” (with Walter Andersen), The Diplomat, 17 June 2016
    • “The Maldives Takes its Place in Indian Ocean Geopolitics”, Foreign Policy, 8 June 2016
    • “Sri Lanka’s delicate balancing act” (with Patrick Mendis), East Asia Forum, 2 May 2016
    • “When the TPP and the One Belt, One Road meet” (with Patrick Mendis), East Asia Forum, 26 April 2016
    • “印度对’一带一路’的回应:如何从态度冷漠到寻求合作?” (with 杨烨), 一带一路研究报2016 年第 2 期,总第 4 期, 20 February 2016
    • “Colombo Consensus 2.0” (with Patrick Mendis), Foreign Policy, 1 October 2015
    • “Monsoons on the New Silk Road”, Foreign Policy, 23 June 2015

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