South Asia and Beyond

Category : China

India’s Inexplicable Silence Over Taiwan

Surya Gangadharan May 12, 2020

NEW DELHI: Should India stick its neck out for Taiwan by backing its re-admission into the World Health Assembly when it meets next week? The assembly is the decision-making arm of the World Health Organisation and therefore a prominent international forum. Some Indian diplomats support the idea: at a time India-China relations are weathering a […]Read More

After Border Skrimishes By China, Doklam Rerun On The Cards?

Nitin A. Gokhale May 11, 2020

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

India-China Face-Off At Naku La: Pattern To Beijing’s Muscle Flexing

Surya Gangadharan May 10, 2020

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

Lipulekh: The Link Road To India-China Territorial Dispute

Parul Chandra May 10, 2020

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

Diversifying Beyond China: But India Is A Hard-Sell

Ashwin Ahmad May 5, 2020

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