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

The Issue of Dalai Lama’s Incarnation Has Gained a Higher Profile

March 25, 2025 Jayadeva Ranade

The issue of the Dalai Lama is attracting increased attention in recent months. Conscious of the 14th Dalai Lama’s advancing age, many in the Tibetan community in India and abroad are concerned about whether the succession will be smooth. There is ...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, China, Trump, CCP, Dalai Lama, reincarnation, Tibet

Xi Jinping Concerned About Weakening Political Ideology in PLA

March 05, 2025 Jayadeva Ranade

There are adequate signs that Chinese President Xi Jinping and senior echelons of the Chinese leadership are concerned at the levels of corruption in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and China’s defence industry. They are more worried at the wa...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, NPC, CMC, CCP, PLA, Xi Jinping thought, anti-corruption campaign, key minority, nationalization of military

China Preparing for Trouble in Tibet

January 21, 2025 Jayadeva Ranade

Apparently apprehensive about the possibility of sudden untoward developments in Tibet, the Chinese authorities have accelerated measures to ensure stability and consolidate China’s occupation and claims over Aksai Chin, Ladakh etc. China is also a...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, China, Dalai Lama, Tibet, Xinjiang

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

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