NEW DELHI: Ripples from the Chinese spy balloon downed by a USAF F-22 Raptor off the coast of South Carolina on February 4 have reached Indian shores. The massive balloon, bristling with surveillance equipment powered by solar panels, entered US air space over Alaska on January 28. After crossing over Canada into continental United States, […]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: Earlier this month as China celebrated the Lunar New Year, local media spotlighted the millions of dollars paid out in digital currency to promote consumption. The city of Shenzhen alone doled out more than $14 million dollars worth of digital yuan to help the catering industry. According to the China Daily, Hangzhou, the […]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
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