NEW DELHI: The pandemic and lockdowns in Chinese cities has added a new edge to the rivalry between President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. Although the former has done much to weaken the political clout of the latter, the pandemic and successive lockdowns in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities have hit the economy hard, […]Read More

NEW DELHI: In the past seven years, China created and developed its first overseas military base for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at Djibouti. Djibouti is strategically situated astride the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in the northern Indian Ocean, which separates the Gulf of Aden from the Red Sea, and functions as a “choke point” for maritime […]Read More

NEW DELHI: After 15 rounds of dialogue at the level of military commanders, and a 16th round in the offing, India appears no closer to getting the Chinese out of Patrolling Point 14 which they occupied in the wake of the Galway clashes. In this chat on The Gist, Jayadeva Ranade of the Centre for […]Read More

NEW DELHI: On #TheGist, from Miami, Florida, Cleo Paskal, Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ms Paskal discusses China Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s island-hopping blitz across Pacific Island Countries days after the Tokyo Quad Summit, visiting seven […]Read More

NEW DELHI: There’s a new wannabe trading alternative in the Indo-Pacific but it modestly styles itself as an economic framework and its proponents in Washington have made it clear that it’s not about free trade or lower tariffs or even market access. But the reading among diplomats and trade specialists in New Delhi is that […]Read More

NEW DELHI: On #TalkingPoint, Niva Yau, Senior Researcher at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Niva Yau discusses her testimony before the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission during its hearing this month on “China’s […]Read More

NEW DELHI: This decade could be fateful for Asia: China has begun an ambitious power play with the goal of emerging as the predominant power on the Asian continent, says Dr. Srikanth Kondapalli, professor of Chinese Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. In a chat on StratNewsGlobal, he warned that Beijing sees the US as distracted […]Read More

NEW DELHI: On #TalkingPoint, Jayadeva Ranade, President, Centre for China Analysis & Strategy, Former Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat and Author, ‘Xi Jinping’s China’ and Jennifer Zeng, Video creator, ‘Inconvenient Truths’ and Author, ‘Witnessing History: One Woman’s Fight For Freedom and Falun Gong‘ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses […]Read More

NEW DELHI: China takes India very seriously and sees this country as crucial to its long term economic prosperity. So far so good, now comes the negative part: India must put off resolving the border dispute with China, it must join the BRI as that would help Beijing move legacy industries from the east coast […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The news from Shanghai, China’s commercial metropolis, speaks of tightening Covid restrictions, homes and apartments being disinfected and subway stations being shut down. The Tesla factory halted production on Monday as the lockdown, now in its sixth week, has halted the production and supply of components. In this chat on The Gist, Jeffrey […]Read More
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