India-China: Clash or dialogue between civilisations?
Potentials in trade, investment and tourism must be realised, for which both must open up new routes of connectivity. Civilisational...
A new roadmap for the Belt and Road Initiative
BRI 2 incorporates industrial capacity building, technological cooperation and environmental protection. The Second Belt and Road Forum for International...
China’s hard line on Dalai Lama reincarnation not helping Tibet
China has made it clear that it will designate its own Dalai Lama and anyone else would be deemed illegal....
India source of tension, Pak victim: Chinese media
Chinese version of India’s ‘pre-emptive’ and ‘non-military strikes’ matches the reports emanating from Pak. In the wake of India’s...
An attempt to understand China
China has unusually strong textual tradition. Xi Jinping calls to foster and practice ‘socialist core values’ borrowed from the several...
China reformed, 40 years later
As China marks 40 years of reforms and opening up, many analysts are taking stock of the path it has...
Resolution of thorny issues must accompany India-China people to people dialogue
This calls for abandoning the Cold War mentality and the zero-sum games between the two countries. Both must negotiate mutual,...
US-China economic war gets colder
US is trying to stop the export of cutting edge technology to Chinese companies. As US President Donald Trump...
Watch out for Kyaukpyu port and China-Myanmar Economic Corridor
The port will give China access to the Bay of Bengal and cut short almost 5,000 km of sea route....
Made in China 2025: Cause for a Cold War between China and the US?
It is clear that the initiative is geared towards letting Chinese manufacturing move up the value chain in production and innovation...
China’s BRI is unlikely to fail
India and China need to work out modalities for strengthening and deepening cooperation.
China watching India-US 2+2 dialogue with keen interest
Dialogue aimed at enhancing strategic coordination and maintaining peace in the Indo-Pacific region. The new India-US 2+2 dialogue slated...
China riled by the Indo-Pacific construct
Indo-Pacific Strategy is the outcome of the shift of power from the West to the East. Chinese academics, like...
Philosophical foundations of Xi’s New Era
President Xi Jinping is trying to imbue Confucian virtues alongside the legalist measures to the rule of law, thus making...
US-China trade war kicks off
China is filling all possible vacuums left by US abdication from competition in the economic and strategic arenas. On...
China’s soft power is as sharp as sharp can be
China relies on instruments of authoritarian influence by way of co-option and manipulation, to target media, academia and the policy...
China getting marginalised in Korean crisis
The North has circumvented Beijing and left it in the lurch. A four-hour long working dinner between the North...
