Tibet’s sealed road network nears 1 lakh km
China’s strategic highways have extended not just within and across Tibet, but also to the Nepal border. T he...
Now that Xi Jinping is the Eternal President of China
Contrary to being “surprising” as many are terming it, the removal of term limits on the office of the Chinese...
China working on frontier border defence construction with fabricated fortification
In what should be deciphered as a vital indicative pointer for China’s neighbours, State Councillor and Defence Minister Chang Wanquan...
China’s illegal oil trade with N. Korea fuels Kim’s missile programme
As North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un continues to push Northeast Asia towards increasingly mounting strategic turmoil owing to its sequential...
Sino-Indian summer of 2017 strained ties
By upping the ante on Doklam yet again, China’s military has defended its sizeable troop presence around the area where...
Xi makes aggressive pitch near Arunachal border
By enshrining Xi Jinping in the Chinese Communist Party’s Constitution, political winds in Beijing have rendered him the nation’s most...
China’s stance on Kashmir will never be static
Global isolation for Pakistan is rising with each passing day on the twin issues of terrorism and Kashmir. Islamabad’s latest...
China globally isolated on Doklam
TOKYO: By providing support to India’s position during the Doklam standoff that lasted nearly 73 days, major regional players have...
China struggles with religion and identity
In a mandate released on 15 July in the Qiushi Journal belonging to the Party’s Central Committee, the State Administration...
In Africa, it’s China vs India and Japan
China’s policy of injecting investments and reaping disproportionate economic and strategic benefits out of it, is strikingly reminiscent of mercantilism,...
India should have let Australia participate in Malabar Exercise
By choosing, reportedly, to decline Australia’s request of participating as an official observer in the multilateral Malabar maritime exercise to...
‘Anti-terror drive’ is China’s ruse to target Uyghurs
China’s approach of political caution and alacrity to crush ethnic identities and cultural selves has struck again with the recent...
In China, a garrison called Xinjiang
China’s political and military vigilance and readiness to crush ethnic identities within its northwestern region of Xinjiang is on the...
There’s a military fallout of China-Pak corridor
By virtue of being the two most significant players in Asia, India and China display a peculiar mix of competition...
America First may become America Alone
While delivering his inaugural address as President of the United States of America, Donald Trump made a reference to the...
Core leader Xi tightens grip on military, state
Chairman Mao Zedong’s famous dictum “…political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” continues holding ground in present...
Japan’s loans should focus on Northeast
India’s relationship with Japan has steadily clasped on to the changing dynamics and realities in Asia and assumed growing vitality...
China’s Kashmir policy taking definite shape
The recent and latest standoff, in a series of many, between the Indian Army and Chinese border guards, over laying...
India’s Rafale deal flusters China
India’s decision to seal the deal and fast-track the acquisition of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft from France in flyaway condition...
China’s lecture on Kashmir best ignored
In a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hangzhou, Chinese President Xi Jinping is assumed to have...
China not neutral on Kashmir, anymore
The first joint patrolling undertaken by Chinese and Pakistani troops along the Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) border has been propped up considerably...
China raises Tibet Military Command’s rank
As His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, celebrated his 81st birthday on 6 July, China chose to coincide the occasion by...
Does Pak’s Shaheen-3 bear Chinese imprint?
Much in contrast to the position of the United States (reaffirmed by President Barack Obama in 2015) that India does,...
China develops a maritime militia, quietly
As China becomes increasingly forceful in the maritime realm with reference to multiple maritime disputes in its “near seas”, the...
