NEW DELHI: Popular discontent and dissatisfaction with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) simmering since March 2018 erupted into overt public criticism from the end of January 2020, prompted by news of the Wuhan virus epidemic becoming public. There is presently little indication of it abating till at least the epidemic […]Read More
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
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