NEW DELHI: “The (Coronavirus) epidemic is generally under control and the dawn is beginning to appear through our arduous efforts.” With those words (and a trifle optimistically), Sun Weidong, China’s Ambassador to India, held the first briefing for the Indian media on the virus which has severely damaged his country’s international standing and disrupted global […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s anybody’s guess what the death toll in the Coronavirus outbreak in China will eventually be. It’s even less clear if the final number the authorities come up with is the true figure. But that’s the problem with Xi Jinping’s China. His security-driven approach to his countrymen may have impeded the flow of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Veterans of the Indian Foreign Service will recall the evacuation of over 100,000 Indians from Jordan in 1990 in the wake of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Compared to that, the evacuation of 647 Indian students (and seven Maldivians) from China was a smaller operation but those involved risked infection, possibly even death. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Regime survival dictates that China’s President Xi Jinping is unlikely to lose his head because of his government’s handling of the Coronavirus. More likely some provincial bigwigs will be got rid of, says Prof Raj Verma, who teaches international studies at Huaqiao University in Xiamen, Fujian province of China. In a chat with StratNews […]Read More
WUHAN (CHINA): China has built a makeshift hospital in 10 days to battle against the novel strain of Coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak in central China’s Hubei Province. Huoshenshan (Fire God Mountain) Hospital was delivered Sunday. A total of 1,400 medical staff from the armed forces is tasked with treating patients […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The year 2017 came with a wake-up call for India and lessons on how to deal with a hostile and unpredictable neighbour like China. The Doklam standoff between Indian and Chinese troops subsequently led to several diplomatic efforts by both sides—including two informal summits by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping—to […]Read More
Nearly 30 months after the border standoff at Dolam (popularly known as Doklam) was resolved, China is far from giving up attempts to whittle down India’s influence over Bhutan, the third and most important angle of the triangular mess in the strategically important Himalayan frontier. Throughout 2019, Beijing sought to increase the pressure on the […]Read More
BEIJING: Chinese health authorities have announced that 2,744 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), including 461 in critical condition, had been reported in the country by the end of Sunday. Figures from the National Health Commission showed 769 new confirmed cases, 3,806 new suspected cases and 24 deaths (24 in Hubei) were […]Read More
“Anyone attempting to split China in any part of the country will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones… And any external forces backing such attempts dividing China will be deemed by the Chinese people as pipe-dreaming!” Who were those remarks of China’s President Xi Jinping during a conversation with Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Myanmar last week has left more questions than answers. StratNews Global learns that only two agreements were signed and these were about shoring up the existing agreement on Kyuakhphyu deep-sea port in Rakhine state and the feasibility study of a railway line from Yunnan to Mandalay (feasibility […]Read More
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