China has announced that the nine-year streak of declining marriage registrations in the country ended last year. According to the data, the number of newlywed couples rose to 7.68 million, which was a rise of 845,000 compared with 2022. The data comes days after China’s Premier Li Qiang said that the government would work towards […]Read More
NEW DELHI: From Kyaukpyu and Chittagong ports on India’s eastern seaboard to Hambantota in Sri Lanka and Gwadar in Pakistan, China has strategically invested all along this country’s maritime borders, with serious implications says Alok Bansal, former naval officer who has been writing and researching on India’s neighbourhood. He was on The Gist talking about […]Read More
NEW DELHI: When it comes to shaping China’s foreign policy, it’s the Chinese Communist Party that decides. That’s how Chinese President Xi Jinping wants it to be. It’s a stark departure from what Deng Xiaoping, credited as the architect of modern China, did (kept the party and the government separate), says Dr Lance L.P. Gore, Senior Research […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The announcement of the India-Middle East-Europe Corridor (IMEC) at the G20 summit in Delhi, is drawing considerable interest from Chinese social media. Some of the comments are negative, others say these represent opportunities Beijing would do well to plug in to. Guancha.cn, a Shanghai-based news site, published an article titled “Competing against the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The official announcement by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs ends speculation whether Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the G-20 Summit in New Delhi on September 8-9, 2023. It is certainly not a snub to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi as some commentators have surmised, since he has backed out of other foreign […]Read More
GOA: In a first sign of a possible rethink on easing tension in Eastern Ladakh, China has expressed its readiness to “cool down” the situation along the border. “Both sides should continue to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, consolidate the existing achievements, strictly abide by relevant agreements, take […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “This has become an institutional policy and position of China obviously arrived at with internal deliberations … de-escalation or de-induction is not on the cards.” Lt. Gen. Rakesh Sharma, former Corps Commander in Ladakh, believes this is the singular lesson to be drawn from recent rounds of the India-China dialogue. China wants India […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s media is almost entirely state-owned and controlled. Even private media, few in number, need to follow government mandates rendering freedom of speech non-existent. Social media is a little different with government laws, regulations and troll armies ensuring the state sanctioned and controlled narrative is always dominant. And if the country happens to be […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Nearly three years after Chinese incursions into Eastern Ladakh, some friction points still remain. Beijing now wants to re-engage politically with India ahead of Xi Jinping’s possible visits to India for the SCO and G20 leaders’ summits later this year. Every time an adversary, be it China or Pakistan, makes a conciliatory gesture, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China appears to be keen on resuming higher political level contacts with India even as it has pushed for resumption of the Corps Commanders level talks to discuss disengagement and de-escalation at the remaining friction points in Eastern Ladakh, latest developments and inputs seem to indicate. China’s Defence Minister Gen Li Shangfu is […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Has China shown greater strategic imagination and flexibility in leveraging its two-front threat perception than India? Amit Kumar, Research Analyst at the Takshashila Institution believes so. In a chat on Borderline Xi!, a special series on StratNews Global marking 10 years since the Depsang incident, Kumar believes China has successfully manipulated India’s concerns […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In our series ‘Borderline Xi‘, Ambassador Nirupama Menon Rao, Former India Foreign Secretary, Ex-Envoy to China, the U.S. and Author, ‘The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet China 1949-62′ in Kunnur, Tamil Nadu and from Washington, D.C., Lisa Curtis, Director, Indo-Pacific Security Programme at the Centre for a New American Security(CNAS), Co-author, ‘India-China Border Tensions […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The intensity of China’s air and naval drills around Taiwan were less this time compared to previous occasions, says Dr. Shen Ming Shi, director of security research at the INDSR think tank in Taiwan. In this conversation on The Gist, Dr Shen believes China needed to send a message in the wake of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India figures extensively in a policy paper titled ‘Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China’ released by the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative American think tank. In his keynote address before the launch of the 143-page paper, Republican Senator from Florida Marco Rubio spoke about how China had become increasingly aggressive […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As Sri Lanka desperately awaits a bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China is unwilling to follow the debt sustainability targets set by the IMF. China is Sri Lanka’s biggest bilateral creditor—accounting for about 20 per cent of the island nation’s foreign debt—and hence plays a key role in its debt […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the past year. An unprecedented but not unexpected economic crisis and the ensuing food, fuel and power shortages sparked violent protests that forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country in July. His successor, interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, declared a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It seems there’s something wrong with India’s understanding of China, even among top diplomats. That’s the view of Hemant Adlakha, professor of Chinese at JNU who answered questions on the The Gist programme. Prof. Adlakha argues that India needs to carefully track whatever China says and what it does. While both may seem […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In 2007, the Chinese economy recorded a stupendous growth of 14.2%. Fifteen years later, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects that economic growth will slow to 3.2% this year. In fact, the country may be lucky to log this, given the rapidly deteriorating global situation. Indeed, this is a stunning slowdown. And that […]Read More
Taiwan, Tibet, Xi Jinping’s CCP Congress & India’s Non-Reaffirmation Of ‘One China Policy’ Post 2010
New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point’, from Taipei, Dr Sana Hashmi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation and Scholar, Research Institute for Indo-Pacific Affairs and in Delhi, Antara Ghosal Singh, China Fellow, Observer Research Foundation in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th National Congress, Xi Jinping’s Tibet, Taiwan strategies, India’s non-reaffirmation of the ‘One China Policy’ in official documents […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s land grab exercise is not limited to its attempt at altering the status quo in East China Sea, South China Sea and with India but with the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan too. According to reports coming from Washington DC, China raised a new, non-existent dispute with Bhutan at a virtual meeting of […]Read More
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