NEW DELHI: As the world battles the pandemic unleashed by the Chinese virus and nations increasingly seek accountability from Xi Jingping, internal unease in the Chinese Communist Party is manifesting itself in aggressive behaviour by the PLA in the neighbourhood. While Vietnam and Philippines have been at the receiving end of Chinese muscle-flexing in the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Is China turning up the heat on India? The “scuffle” between Indian and Chinese troops (dismissed as “minor” by the army) at Naku La in north Sikkim is the first such incident to come to public knowledge after a long time. The clash took place because the area where they were (around 5000 […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The latest irritant in India-Nepal ties is a strategically important link road in Uttarakhand, just five km short of the high-altitude Lipulekh Pass that straddles the Line of Actual Control with China. Inaugurated by India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh on Friday, the 80-km Dharchula–Lipulekh road built by Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is an […]Read More
NEW DELHI: US President Trump says he is “turbocharging” an initiative to bring manufacturing back from overseas. “We’ve been working on (reducing the reliance of our supply chains in China) over the last few years but we are now turbo-charging that initiative,” Keith Krach, Undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment at the State Department […]Read More
CHENNAI: The world is clear that the coronavirus originated in China. Whether it originated in a laboratory or a wet market of Wuhan is a matter of debate. However, one thing is certain. Once human to human transmission was confirmed, international travel was allowed by the Chinese while domestic travel was banned. Deliberately? The world […]Read More
NEW DELHI: What is China hiding? The question is not rhetorical, not least because U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s claim of “enormous evidence” linking the Wuhan virus to a Chinese laboratory. Beijing’s unwillingness to share information about the role it has played in unleashing a virus that has wreaked damage on a scale not seen since […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s military played a key role in checking the spread of the coronavirus beyond Wuhan and Hubei province. There were thousands of medical personnel from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) deployed to fight the virus. Additional personnel were deployed to aid infrastructure building and provision of essential supplies. In fact, it appears the military […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Reading Pradip Baijal’s book Containing the China Onslaught brought forth one question: how did an official from the IAS with no experience of foreign policy (his claim to fame was telecom reform and public sector disinvestment), end up writing a book on China? Baijal answered that question at a discussion on his book […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Australia and China are two countries with deep economic linkages that go back many years. These linkages have been mutually beneficial for both countries so much so that Australia’s largest trading partner is China. And yet, regardless of this inter-dependence, relations between the two countries have nose-dived after Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison demanded […]Read More
NEW DELHI: April has been a busy month for much of the world with the Coronavirus ravaging their backyards. China seems to have capitalized on that pre-occupation, pushing forward its claims in the South China Sea with a combination of the physical and the diplomatic. Earlier this month, China announced it had set up two […]Read More
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