Jayadeva Ranade

He is Member of the National Security Advisory Board and President of the Centre for China Analysis and Strategy. He was formerly Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India.)

Contributions

Rising Tension in Taiwan Strait is Cause for Concern

July 23, 2024 Jayadeva Ranade

Tension across the Taiwan Strait has risen in past weeks after the leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Lai Ching-te took over as Taiwan's new President. Since then, the Chinese authorities have mounted psychological and military pressure...

Tags: Article, Xi Jinping, Taiwan, CCP, DPP, PLA, KMT, Lai Ching-te, Song Tao

Portents of the Xi-Putin Meeting of May 2024

July 16, 2024 Jayadeva Ranade

Summits between Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are invariably closely monitored in world capitals, especially since the onset of Russia’s war with Ukraine in 2022 and the two having declared a “no limits friendship”! C...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, US, China, Russia, Xi Jinping, Putin, Europe, CCP, Taiwan independence

The People’s Liberation Army’s New Information Support Force

June 12, 2024 Jayadeva Ranade

On April 19, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that a new People's Liberation Army (PLA) Information Support Force had been established. At the same time, he announced establishment of the PLA Aerospace Support Force and PLA Cyberspace Support F...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, NPC, CMC, PLA, Information Warfare, civil military fusion, Gen Dong Jun, Electronic warfare, Aerospace Support Force, Cyberspace Support Force, Information Support Force, Joint Logistics Support Force, Tibet Military District

Initial Assessment of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Three Nation European Tour

May 28, 2024 Jayadeva Ranade

Chinese President Xi Jinping, accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan, Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) member and Director of the CCP CC General Office Cai Qi and Politburo member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, arrived in Paris on May 5, on the first ...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, China, Xi Jinping, EU, France, Ursula von der Leyen, Macron, Serbia, Hungary, Uyghur protests

Tensions Show in US-China Ties During Blinken’s Visit

May 06, 2024 Jayadeva Ranade

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's three day (April 24-26) visit to Shanghai and Beijing was an apparent attempt to arrest the slide in relations and simultaneously make clear the US 'red lines'. Since Biden became US President, Blinken is the s...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, US, China, Article, China, Taiwan, CCP, Wang Yi, Blinken, Dong Jun, Janet Yellen

VIF Briefs

China’s New Central Military Commission

January 20, 2023 Jayadeva Ranade

China unveiled its new military leadership the day after the 20th Party Congress concluded on October 23. The composition of the new Central Military Commission (CMC), each of whose members is a hand-picked loyalist of Chinese President Xi Jinping, s...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Xi Jinping, CMC, PLA, Eastern Theatre Command, Military Commission

An assessment of the Second Plenum of China’s 13th National People’s Congress

April 30, 2019 Jayadeva Ranade

.. convened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in the first fortnight of March 2019, the annual plenary sessions set the agenda for the year ahead and accorded formal approval of the entire 89 million-strong Chinese Communist Party to the pol...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Xi Jinping, Chinese Communist Party, 13th National People’s Congress