Category: Political Parties
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. ..
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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.”…
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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…