China’s new white paper on Tibet is the 15th in a series that began in 1992, and one can presume more will happen. At one level it would appear to reflect China’s confidence in its hold over Tibet and what it has accomplished since it invaded and occupied the roof of the world 70 years […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The pandemic could well rank as the ultimate whodunit! Was it the work of Chinese scientists trying to develop a bioweapon, as many widely believe? If that is indeed the case, did the Chinese do it alone? Was there international collaboration which the Chinese benefited from? There is no doubt that the pandemic […]Read More
There’s a lot of baggage in the India China relationship, says Prof Bali Deepak of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. In a chat on Books Corner about his latest work India & China: Beyond the binary of friendship and enmity, he argues that the 1962 war is only one element of this baggage. The current economic […]Read More
Chinese Vaccines Can Handle ‘3,000 Indian Covid Strains’ China’s health authorities have rushed to assure the public that their vaccines will be able to handle the ‘Indian variant’. This comes after local media reported on May 5, of 18 cases of double mutant coronavirus among Chinese nationals, living near Delhi, who had returned home via […]Read More
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar stated that the future of the India-China relationship would not only depend on whether Beijing was willing to follow previous agreements, but also on whether it was willing to work to “stabilise” the relationship. Pointing to history, he said not only did it take 26 years for the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: For years, the narrative about the Tiananmen incident in China’s capital Beijing in June 1989 has focused mostly on how the Chinese authorities suppressed a pro-democracy uprising by students. But in a remarkably candid—even controversial—take, Ambassador Vijay Gokhale, China specialist and India’s former Foreign Secretary, provides a nuanced and deeper insight into the […]Read More
Operation Bright Eyes China’s Ministry of Education has launched “Child and Adolescent Myopia Prevention and Control Bright Action Work Plan (2021-2025)” or ‘Operation Bright Eyes.’ Statistics show that the overall myopia rate of children and adolescents in the country exceeds 50%, and high school students are as high as 80%. Even children under six years […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “We will keep standing up and speaking out until China’s government stops its crimes against humanity and the genocide of Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a UN virtual meet. The event was organised by Germany, the U.S. and Britain, co-sponsored by Canada, Australia, New […]Read More
New Delhi: China has been increasing the number and extent of fighter jet, bomber and surveillance flights into Taiwan’s Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ). The People’s Liberation Army’s Navy(PLAN) continuously sails warships and its aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait, while U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Groups move through the area in regular freedom of navigation […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Chinese salami slicing tactic isn’t limited to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) about whose alignment India and China have differing perceptions. China has been trying the trick with some amount of success in the tiny nation of Bhutan as well. Both sides have been in talks to settle the boundary but […]Read More
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