NEW DELHI: A study has warned that India and China, locked in confrontation on the Line of Actual Control, may also have to contend in the future with “water wars.” The study by the Washington DC-based Council on Strategic Risks and the Woodwell Climate Research Center, warns that the lack of information on BRI dam […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A year and a half since Covid-19 surfaced in China’s Wuhan, the origin of the pathogen (Sars-Cov-2) that has spread worldwide remains a mystery. As the lab-leak theory (that the virus leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology) makes a comeback, there have been renewed calls for a probe into how the virus originated. […]Read More
Ding Zing And All’s Well In Tibet A Tibetan boy from Sichuan province appears to have taken China’s internet by storm. Ding Zing is his name and his rise to fame was pretty accidental: he featured in a seven second video on instant noodles and despite lack of fluency in Mandarin and a certain shyness, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Dali L. Yang, William Claude Reavis Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of several books including, ‘China and Youth Well-being in China’ and Yaqiu Wang, China Researcher at Human Rights Watch and China Commentator & Columnist discuss how declining birthrates and an […]Read More
NEW DELHI: US Medical Advisor Dr Antony Fauci is turning out to be a U-turn artist. Emails accessed by Buzzfeed News through the courts showed him ignoring warnings that the Wuhan virus could be man-made. Now he’s okay with the theory that the virus may in fact have been “man made.” At a recent public […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India delivered a pointed message to China at the virtual summit of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China South Africa) foreign ministers on Tuesday. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar called for the “territorial integrity” of all states to be preserved. He said, “We strive for a fair, just, inclusive, equitable and representative multipolar international […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s ‘Wolf Warriors’ are known worldwide as its civilian army, but how does the Chinese Communist Party aggressively weaponise and churn out false narratives, fake news, disinformation and misinformation, how successful is Beijing and what can be done to foil it? On ‘The Gist’, Dr. Puma Shen, Chairman of Doublethink Lab in Taiwan, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: For the past 24 hours, Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale has been flooded with enquiries about a video clip of him highlighting the wrong geo-tag (location) for Leh. There was some confusion about the exact date on which the video was recorded. Some thought, it is fresh one; some others knew it to be […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Fifteen white papers since the 1990s and there could be more to come. So what explains China’s issuance of so many white papers on Tibet? It reflects China’s insecurities about Tibet despite invading and occupying it 70 years ago, argues Tenzin Lekshay, director of the Tibet Policy Institute in Dharamshala. Speaking exclusively to […]Read More
Xi Swears Fealty To Marxism Just in case people had forgotten, President Xi Jinping shot off a letter of congratulations to the World Symposium for Marxist Political Parties, an event sponsored by the International Department of the CPC Central Committee. In the letter Xi said that Marxism has been the guiding ideology of the Communist […]Read More
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