This is a linked brief with the previous work titled ‘Power Behind Arrogance’ carried on the VIF portal on 23 Jun 2020.1 The previous article dealt with the analysis of the air and missile arsenal of China. It analysed how the Chine....
Tags : Article , Chinese threat , PLAAF threat , IAF air and missile power
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Floods in China are an annual phenomenon. This year’s flood comes at the time when China is already battling the COVID-19 which has hit 27 out of 31 provinces of China. Since June, torrential rain in China has broken all records. It is the most dev....
Tags : Article , Xi Jinping , Disaster , PLA , Li Keqiang , COVID-19 , Three Gorges Dam , Yangtze River , Floods , Black Swan
China-U.S. relations are deteriorating at a rapid pace and some scholars have wondered whether we are witnessing the beginnings of Cold War 2 between the two biggest economies? On 21st July 2020, the U.S. State Department ordered that Chinese C....
Tags : Article , US , China , Taiwan , Trump , Japan , Globalisation , COVID-19 , UN Security Council , Hong Kong , Cold War , Nixon
On 30 July 2020, the Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong delivered an important speech at the Delhi based Institute for Chinese Studies in which he spoke about the current state of Sino Indian relations after the Galwan incident on the Line of Ac....
Tags : Commentary , LAC , Ladakh , Galwan , expansionism , China's Ambassador speech , One China policy , Modi-Xi consensus , hegemony
“China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world” (Xinran, 2011). This quote, attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte acknowledges the unprecedented change the rise of China will bring about in the world. In the fiel....
Tags : Article , China , Xi Jinping , Doklam , Galwan valley , Atmanirbhar Bharat , expansionism
In analysing the aggression shown by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Eastern Ladakh since May 2020, and the intransigence apparent in the consequent negotiations to return to status quo, it is imperative follow the hierarchy dictating the sam....
Tags : Article , CPC , PLA , Ladakh , Mao , Western Theatre Command , political commissar , 2019 White Paper China National Defense , C4ISR
लद्दाख में कई स्थानों पर और सिक्किम के नाकू ला में भारत और चीन के बीच जारी टकराव के कारण दोनों दे�....
Tags : Hindi , Article , भारत , चीन , LAC , लद्दाख , फिंगर्स क्षेत्र , गैलवान घाटी , संयुक्त राष्ट्र मानवाधिकार परिषद
The recent accusation and allegations by the opposition parties particularly Congress with regard to the government’s handling of the India-China relations, in the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the India-China border was unfortunate and irrespons....
Tags : Article , China , foreign policy , opposition parties , Territorial integrity , LAC , Tibet , national interest , Members of Parliament , India-China war 1962 , Prof. NG Ranga , McMahon Line , forthcoming Parliament Session
The European Union (EU) is today facing a major contradiction. Its traditional ally, the USA has in several ways turned its back on Europe and is entering into trade and defence related quarrels. China which is the EU’s ‘systemic rival’ is on t....
Tags : Article , US , China , Climate Change , trade , Brexit , NATO , EU , UK , COVID-19 , FDI , TTIP , 2020 EU China Cooperation Agenda
A resurgent China seeking a pie in every corner in the world has chosen to pursue a ruthless policy of expanding its global footprint by cajoling, coercion, policy of economic domination (read BRI), infringing on another country’s territorial sover....
Tags : Article , Donald Trump , Xi Jinping , Taiwan , Senkaku Islands , New national security law , Basic Law , mini-constitution , Antony Dapiran , The Hague , Mike Pompeo , Emmanuel Macron , Abe Shinzo , Carrie Lam , Xiao Jianhua , Lee Bo , Simon Chesterman