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
NEW DELHI: As the China virus ravages people’s lives and economies globally, and with more than 50 per cent of the people on this planet in lockdown, it has had a deep impact on digital economy. For starters, people have moved towards a more digital approach to work and life. A cultural change that would […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Hours after India tweaked its FDI policy to screen all investments by its neighbours who share land borders, the Chinese embassy in Delhi registered its outrage. A long statement on the embassy website attributed to Counsellor Ji Rong deprecated India’s new policy by invoking the principles of free and open trade, non-discrimination and so […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Victories in battle generally carry more resonance than defeats but that’s the odd thing. Most Indians, even those of the current generation, know about India’s defeat in the 1962 war against China. But the Nathu-La/Cho La face off in 1967 evokes little response even though India came off better in those encounters. In […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the wake of the Coronavirus, China is unlikely to figure in any popularity contest anywhere in the world. And particularly in the Indian context, China is viewed in almost adversarial terms for a range of reasons, including its huge bilateral trade surplus, the cosy strategic nexus with Pakistan and so on. Which […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In the midst of the black clouds of the Coronavirus, or Covid-19, spreading uncertainty around the globe and governments grappling to stop the immense loss to human life and damage to their economies, world leaders have begun assessing the possible contours of the post Covid-19 world. The U.S. and West particularly are trying […]Read More
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