Category: Political Parties

• Decoding China’s economy — Part I

  

  CHINA HAS BEEN facing economic headwinds for some time now. Its domestic problems are long-standing – high local government debt, low consumption, and overcapacity in several industries, among others. This is the broad context against which Chinese…

• Making sense of China’s anti-corruption agenda

  

  CHINESE PREMIER LI QIANG presented his first government report on March 5 at the annual legislative session of the National People’s Congress, one-half of the country’s rubber-stamp parliament…

• Xi Jinping, Not The PLA: A Simpler Explanation for India-China Tensions

  

  The principle of Occam’s razor states that if you have two competing ideas to explain a phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one. In other words, the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually the correct one…

• Can a polarised India deter China?

  

  IF THE SMARTEST thinkers in the US can worry about its political dysfunction and can call for ‘rebuilding support at home’, Indians should worry too, about how our country’s external aspirations are articulated and achieved…

• How to read the churn in Chinese politics

  

  CHINA’S DEFENCE MINISTER General Li Shangfu is the latest top official in the country to suddenly go missing from scheduled engagements. He did not turn up for an annual bilateral meeting with the Vietnamese earlier this week on account of supposed ill-health but he had not been seen for several internal meetings before that. ..

• Border management more than just domestic politics

  

  DURING HIS VISIT to Arunachal Pradesh earlier this week, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah declared, “Today, we can state with pride, gone are those days when people could encroach into our land. Now, they cannot even take a pin’s tip worth of our land because the ITBP and the Indian Army are now present here.”…

• China Protests: The party-state can’t be underestimated — neither can the Chinese people

  

  WHILE THE CHINESE party-state has, until now, been able to subdue or prevent protests using traditional means as well as new technology, protestors in the past have also been wary of embarrassing either the CCP or the central government. The latest protests are, therefore, astonishing precisely because they undermine these long-standing trends…

• Takeaways from Xi’s Congress

  Originally published at The Indian Express, 24 October 2022. p.14. Published online as ‘Xi Jinping’s Congress: What are the implications for China, the world, and India?’ What are the main takeaways  from the CPC Congress?  The CPC’s 20th Congress underlined General Secretary Xi Jinping’s role not just as the core of the Central Committee but also…

• A Third Term For Xi Jinping Holds Little Assurance For India

  Originally published at BQ Prime, 22 October 2022. India has several reasons to pay close attention to the ongoing 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).  As a neighbour to China and as a country of similar size of population and length of history, it would be natural for India to assume…