Category: Sub-nationalism

• Why China is building villages near LAC

  

  ON MARCH 26, China’s State Council announced the creation of a new county — equivalent to a district-level administrative unit in the Chinese political-administrative system — in Xinjiang, called Cenling…

• 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…

• Cooperative Federalism Essential for India’s China Policy

  

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

• Beyond the Military Prism: China’s Development Objectives in Xiaokang Villages in Tibet Autonomous Region

  

  In 2017, China unveiled a policy to develop more than 600 bianjing xiaokang cun, or ‘moderately well-off border villages’, in 21 border counties in the Tibet Autonomous Region. This study examines how the policy is being implemented in 44 villages in four border counties in Ngari prefecture and in Droma county in Shigatse City using…

• 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…

• When an admiral gets to helm China’s PLA

  

  AS 2023 WOUND to a close, China announced a new defence minister in place of General Li Shangfu, who had been removed from the post several months earlier. On December 29, Admiral Dong Jun, who had just stepped down as the head of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) was announced as Li’s replacement…

• Threats in Xi Jinping’s ‘civilisational’ claims

  

  While the Chinese economy will continue to face problems because of the country’s political structure as well as the international context, what the rest of the world must pay attention to is how the Chinese leadership seeks to overcome these challenges.

• 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…