Tag: Communist Party of China (CPC)

• 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…

• Decoding China’s economy — Part II’

  

  IN HIS GOVERNMENT work report delivered on March 5 at the opening session of the National People’s Congress, Chinese Premier Li Qiang drew a link between global problems and the Chinese economy…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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.

• 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. ..

• 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…