Tag: Xi Jinping

• India’s China policy at a crossroads

  

  THE IRONY IS that this ‘normalisation’ of ties with China is not one that is the result of hard bargains or one that showcases any advantages for India

• 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…

• A ‘Global Community’ with Chinese Characteristics

  

  The Chinese Party-state’s regime interests and worldviews do not allow for the kind of global community that Beijing claims to support…

• For China, Age is More than a Number

  Originally published as ‘For China, Age is More than a Number’, India’s World, 9 December 2024. On one of his state visits to Egypt in the 1990s, then Chinese President Jiang Zemin is said to have discovered that the Egyptians showcased their civilization as being 5,000 years old. On his return, he ordered that Chinese…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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. ..