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No Reincarnation for India’s Tibet Card
THE JULY 2 announcement by the 14th Dalai Lama stating that the traditional process of his reincarnation will continue is an occasion to examine Indian and Chinese responses, the reasons for the Dalai Lama’s decision and to ask the question of what Indian policy going ahead should be…
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China’s new trilaterals reshaping regional balance in South Asia
FOR OVER A decade, China has pursued its grand strategic project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and more recently its extensions – the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilisation Initiative…
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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…
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India-China Differences Pose challenges to Multilateralism
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INDIA and China are now at the heart of their interactions in multilateral institutions and, thus, of geopolitics
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China and an American Pope in Rome
THE APPOINTMENT OF the United States-born Robert Prevost as the new Pope, Leo XIV has more than religious significance to it. It’s also a matter of geopolitical significance at a time when China is increasingly contending with the US for global domination…
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ചൈനയും, പുതിയ മാര്പാപ്പയും
പുതിയ മാര്പാപ്പയായി സ്ഥാനാരോഹണം ചെയ്ത റോബര്ട്ട് പ്രെവോസ്റ്റിന്റെ (ലിയോ XIV) തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിന് മതപരമായ പ്രാധാന്യം മാത്രമല്ല ഉള്ളത്. അമേരിക്കയും, ചൈനയും ആഗോള മേധാവിത്വത്തിനായി മത്സരിക്കുന്ന വേളയില്, അതിനു ഒരു ജിയോപൊളിറ്റിക്കല് പ്രാധാന്യം കൂടിയുണ്ട്…
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The Moving Needle of China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
CHINA’S “WOLF WARRIOR” diplomacy is a key feature of Chinese foreign policy in the ‘new era’ under Communist Party of China (CPC) General Secretary Xi Jinping. It can be understood as representing a muscular Chinese nationalism that is impatient with the current global order…
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In trade war with the US, China’s strong language hides its frailties
“IF WAR IS what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end”. So declared, a Chinese Foreign Ministry tweet in March when the Donald Trump administration raised tariffs over China’s lack…
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China’s calculated neutrality on Pahalgam
CHINA HAS ISSUED a series of statements in the wake of the terrorist attack in Pahalgam. How do we interpret these and what do they tell us about how it views India and Pakistan?…
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China in Egypt: Converting Economic Engagement into Political Capital
EGYPT OCCUPIES AN important place in China’s foreign policy calculations,a position that is captured by the characterisation of the relationship by the two sides as a ‘comprehensive strategic partnership.’ Even as China achieves concrete diplomatic interests as well as promotes its Belt and Road Initiative through ties with Egypt, its influence over Cairo in the…
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India-China relations at 75: An uncertain thaw
INDIA’S EXTERNAL AFFAIRS minister S Jaishankar has talked about “an unsettled world… one with a lot of turbulence and volatility”. The Communist Party of China general secretary and Chinese President Xi Jinping has similarly stated that the world was undergoing “great changes unseen in a century”…