Pragmatism in international politics ensures that there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interests. However, one seeming exception to this is the Sino-Pakistani “all-weather friendship.” It was precisely this friendship Prime Minister Imran Khan was banking on when he recently visited Beijing to seek an aid package to avert an economic crisis […]
Author Archives: Sriparna Pathak
Dr Sriparna Pathak is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, Nowgong College, Assam. Prior to this, she was an assistant professor at the Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, Gauhati University. She is also a Fellow at the South Asia Democratic Forum, Brussels. Previously she was a consultant in the Policy Planning and Research Division of the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. She received her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and has spent two years in Beijing as an advanced research scholar on a joint scholarship from the Indian Ministry of Human Resources Development and the China Scholarship Council.
