NEW DELHI: The Tibetan government-in-exile in India has not taken “any official position on Chinese villages in Arunachal Pradesh,” said Penpa Tsering, the newly elected Sikyong or political head of the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala. But he sensed insecurity in the Chinese leadership. He believes the Chinese are pushing Tibetans towards the boundaries with […]Read More
Patients Or Criminals? Hundreds of people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have become unexpected targets in China’s war on drugs. The country’s health system has made it extremely challenging for adults with the disorder to access vital medication. Many have turned to the black market as a result but that’s now putting them in […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Jennifer Zeng, Video Creator of the YouTube channel, ‘Inconvenient Truths’ and Author, ‘Witnessing History: One Woman’s Fight For Freedom and Falun Gong’ and Yaqiu Wang, Senior China Researcher at Human Rights Watch and China Commentator & Columnist in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panellists discuss […]Read More
Government Wants More Vigilante Groups Vigilantes are looked on unfavourably but not in China where vigilantism connotes social activism and the authorities want more. The Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau released a plan earlier this month to increase the number of community social organizations in the capital that will function like the highly influential Chaoyang […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Presidents Biden and Xi Jinping set the tone early for the world’s most awaited virtual conference. Their opening remarks, with Xi describing Biden as my “old friend”, and the latter reciprocating that both leaders “had never been that formal with another”, suggested that if not friendship, a new equilibrium would be found and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Dr. Roger C. Liu, Associate Professor and Chair, South & South East Asia Studies at FLAME University in Pune and Dr Raymond Kuo, Political Scientist with Rand Corporation and Author of ‘Confronting China’s Grey Zone Strategy’ in analysis with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi on the Joe Biden-Xi Jinping virtual summit.Read More
Covid Worries For Oil Firm China National Petroleum Corp, the world’s third-largest oil firm, has told all of its Beijing units to enter a “state of emergency” after four of its employees tested positive for COVID-19. The state-owned giant said it immediately started to conduct nucleic acid testing for all employees. The move came after […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Chinese Communist Party’s central committee comprising the top brass, has ended four days of deliberations behind closed doors in Beijing. The meeting is seen as giving Xi Jinping another leg up in his push for a third term, one that seems pretty certain to happen next year. Ananth Krishnan, correspondent of The […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’, Dr Ming-shih Shen, Director of the National Security Research Division at Taipei’s Institute for National Defence & Security Research and a retired army Colonel and Dr. Roger C. Liu, Associate Professor, Chair, South & South East Asia Studies at FLAME University in Pune in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor […]Read More
New Delhi: On ‘The Gist’, Jack Detsch, National Security Reporter, Foreign Policy in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi on the U.S. Secretary of Defence’s annual report to the U.S. Congress on ‘Military and Security Developments Involving China’.Read More
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