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On India-China ties, Delhi takes one step forward, two steps back
WHILE INDIAN STATEMENTS on the bilateral relationship with China are exercises in brevity, Chinese statements are more expansive by comparison. Taken together, however, they provide a picture of how the relationship is evaluated by each side. With the 23rd meeting of the Special Representatives (SRs) on the India-China boundary…
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Doval-Wang SR Talks: Back to the Grind
Originally published as, ‘Two steps forward, one step back’, The Indian Express, 21 December 2024. p.11. Published online as ‘On India-China ties, Delhi takes one step forward, two steps back’. While Indian statements on the bilateral relationship with China are exercises in brevity, Chinese statements are more expansive by comparison. Taken together, however, they provide…
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For China, Age is More than a Number
ON ONE OF his state visits to Egypt in the 1990s, the then Chinese President Jiang Zemin is said to have discovered that the Egyptians showcased their civilisation as being 5,000 years old. On his return, he ordered that Chinese history…
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New India-China Patrolling Agreement: More Questions from Kazan
Originally published as, ‘Path to normalisation of India-China ties not easy’, Deccan Herald, 26 October 2024. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held “their first proper bilateral meeting at delegation level in nearly five years” on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia.[1] Coming in the wake of an announcement earlier…
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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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India-China agreement is welcome — but we don’t know enough
INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY Vikram Misri announced on October 21 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 “in these areas in 2020”. The question that remains to be clarified…
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തായ്‌വാൻ രാഷ്ട്രപതി തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിന്റെ ദിശാസൂചിക
അങ്ങനെ പ്രതീക്ഷിച്ചതു പോലെ, ഡെമോക്രാറ്റിക്‌ പ്രോഗ്രസ്സിവ് പാർട്ടി (ഡി.പി.പി) സ്ഥാനാർഥിയായ, ലായി ചിങ്-ത തായ്‌വാൻ രാഷ്ട്രപതിയായി തെരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടു. തുടർച്ചയായ മൂന്നാം തവണയാണ് ഡി.പി.പി രാഷ്ട്രപതി തെരെഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് വിജയിക്കുന്നതെന്നത് ഒരു അഭൂതപൂർവ്വമായ സ്ഥിതിവിശേഷമാണ്. ഭരണഘടനാപരമായ രണ്ടു തവണയെന്ന കാലപരിധി പൂർത്തികരിച്ച തായ്‌വാനിലെ ആദ്യ വനിതാ രാഷ്ട്രപതി സായി ഇങ്-വന്റെ …
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China in Madagascar: Building Centrality through Economic Development and Maritime Engagement
Madagascar’s location and natural resources give it a certain weight in geopolitics despite its low population and weak political and economic indicators. This essay explains how China has used Madagascar’s internal weaknesses and…
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The geopolitics in ‘Tibet border’ reference
RAJYA SABHA MEMBER Dorjee Tshering Lepcha from Sikkim hit the headlines last week for his call to the Union government to instruct the Indian Army and other agencies working in border areas to start referring to the ‘China border’ as the ‘Tibet border’…