Tag: infrastructure development

• Dealing with India’s China Challenge

  

  WHEN ASKED IN 1924 why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, the British mountaineer George Mallory is reported to have replied, “Because it’s there.” He would disappear on Everest later that same year during an attempt to reach the summit…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis: The Chinese Model in Operation

  The unrest created by the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka has now resulted in the imposition of a political emergency over the island. The causes for the crisis are many and China has been criticised regularly in recent years for being at least partially responsible for Sri Lanka’s ballooning external debt and for the…

• China in Afghanistan: Not Ready for the Burden

  Despite the US withdrawal, it is too early for anyone to declare victory for China in Afghanistan

• Xi Jinping in Tibet: What India Needs to Look Out For

  The non-military uses of China’s civilian infrastructure build-up in TAR or Xinjiang must not be ignored

• Xi Jinping Visits the Tibet Autonomous Region

  Constant references to the ‘new’ to describe the Party-State’s views of developments on the Tibetan plateau underline Xi’s attempts to leave his personal stamp on Tibet policy.

• 印中關係新常態

  固然，中印雙邊關係不僅僅是邊界爭端，但印度也越來越清楚，中國不願意考慮合作的潛在利益.