Category: Political Parties

• Purges in China’s PLA and Xi’s tightening grip

  

  THE ANNUAL LEGISLATIVE sessions of the Chinese People’s Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC) — known as the “two sessions” concluded on March 12. The annual government report presented by Premier Li Qiang signalled a broader continuity in economic policy while highlighting problems such as local debt…

• China’s anti-corruption machine tightens its grip

  

  GEN Zhang Youxia, first-ranked Vice-Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission and its senior-most general, has been placed under investigation for “serious violations of discipline and law”, along with another member, Gen Liu Zhenli. This leaves the commission…

• China’s ‘National Rejuvenation’ v/s MAGA

  

  THE WORLD IS currently reeling from US President Donald Trump’s desire to “Make America Great Again.” The MAGA movement and Trump’s second turn at the American presidency is a populist response to years of rising income inequality and social upheaval in the US. Long before Trump came up with MAGA…

• Cooperative Federalism Essential for India’s China Policy

  

  Balanced India-China economic relations cannot happen without balanced centre-state relations in India..

• A ‘Global Community’ with Chinese Characteristics

  

  The Chinese Party-state’s regime interests and worldviews do not allow for the kind of global community that Beijing claims to support…

• For China, Age is More than a Number

  Originally published as ‘For China, Age is More than a Number’, India’s World, 9 December 2024. On one of his state visits to Egypt in the 1990s, then Chinese President Jiang Zemin is said to have discovered that the Egyptians showcased their civilization as being 5,000 years old. On his return, he ordered that Chinese…

• A Patrolling Agreement and Some Questions

  INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY Vikrim Misri announced on Monday that India and China had reached “an agreement … on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control…leading to disengagement and a resolution of the issues that had arisen”  following Chinese transgressions…

• This Election Season, What Do Indian Political Parties Say About China?

  

  China is the primary foreign policy and security challenge that India faces in its neighbourhood. Alongside New Delhi’s apprehensions is a fascination in sections of the Indian political elite for the way China has grown its economic and diplomatic heft. China is a reference point – a model even – to benchmark and achieve domestic economic…

• How China Perceives the World and India: Reading Li Qiang’s Government Work Report

  

  WHILE LI QIANG makes the call “for an equal and orderly multipolar world and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalisation” and claims China will be “firm in opposing all hegemonic, high-handed, and bullying acts and in upholding international fairness and justice”, his country’s record speaks otherwise…