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US continues to get China wrong
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT Joe Biden will be meeting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in California in what will be the latter’s first trip to the US since 2017 when he met with Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump…
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Economic policy with Chinese characteristics
China’s economy has been a tailspin recently that is the result of politics as much as of objective economic conditions. There is no doubt that politics played a role in the decision to open up China’s economy in the late 1970s…
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India is not stepping up to the challenge of countering China
t should be easy for the world to criticise China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has completed 10 years. Consider its record, for one. Several countries have realised the Chinese often promised a lot more than they delivered while yet other while yet others — Pakistan and Sri Lanka, in India’s neighbourhood — also…
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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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Xi Jinping skipping G20 Summit says a lot about how China sees India
HOW SHOULD INDIA interpret Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to not attend the G20 leader’s summit in New Delhi? Domestic political crises are common enough reasons for leaders to want to skip foreign visits. There are reports that influential elders of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) have expressed their unhappiness at the present state…
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When a Chinese scholar asked Pakistan to learn from India
CHINA HAS LONG claimed that it does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, but its relationship with ‘iron brother’ Pakistan should suggest otherwise. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), for example, has always been used…
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How to interpret China’s imaginary consensus with India
FOLLOWING A MEETING on the sidelines of a BRICS gathering of National Security Advisers, between India’s Ajit Doval and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign ministry has been reported as saying that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping had reached “an important consensus” to restore bilateral ties…
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New Delhi’s approach to multilateral ties needs clarity
THE CANADIAN DIRECTOR of global communications at the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has resigned, alleging that the bank is influenced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Canadian government has frozen ties with the bank and launched an investigation. India, which has participated in Chinese-led economic organisations, should rethink its involvement, given the…
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China is in no mood to match US’s desire for dialogue
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in China over the past two days attempting to cool temperatures in a bilateral relationship that appears to be going from bad to worse. Beijing had cancelled Blinken’s planned visit in February over the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon over US airspace…