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Inner-Party Differences on Hong Kong Issue Pose Problems for Xi Jinping
Jayadeva Ranade

China’s leadership will have been incensed by the photographs and videos of protestors in Hong Kong carrying American flags and chanting “America please take over Hong Kong” on September 9, in apparent escalation of the protests against Chinese

September 16, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, Hong Kong protests, Chinese leadership’s Hong Kong dilemma
Recent Transgressions by China in the South China Sea
Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Activities of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
China along with Vietnam is the largest claimants of islands in the South China Sea. China has built military bases to include berthing sites for war ships, air strips for fighter a

September 06, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, China’s latest territorial transgressions, South China Sea and Vietnam
The Hong Kong Imbroglio
Gautam Sen

The present public upsurge in Hong Kong, administratively known as the Hong Kong Special Administered Region (HKSAR) of Peoples Republic of China (PRC), is now nearly three-month old. The latest trigger for the present unrest has been the HKSAR admin

September 05, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, Hong Kong protests, China’s domestic differences, China’s ‘two systems’ on test
दबाव के बावजूद चीनी राष्ट्रपति के शी जिनपिंग की दखलकारी नीतियों में कोई बदलाव नहीं
Jayadeva Ranade

चीनी राष्ट्रपति शी जिनपिंग और चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (सीसीपी) पिछले 18 महीनों से अमेरिका के साथ �

September 03, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Hindi, Article, चीन की हठधर्मी नीतियां, चीन की आक्रमणकारी भंगिमाएं
US-China Trade War: Fall Out in China
Jayadeva Ranade

The mood in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hierarchy is sombre. The US-China trade war, as it is called, marks a substantive change in the US-China relationship. Mutual suspicion now taints what Beijing has for decades described as its most import

August 21, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, Chinese economy, China-US trade, China’s policy issues
Defending China in the Xi Jinping Era
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

China’s White Paper on defence titled ‘China’s National Defense in New Era’ of 2019, coming after a gap of four years, bears a strong imprint of President Xi Jinping on Beijing’s defence and security policies and strategies. Though t

August 08, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, China’s White Paper 2019, China’s military assertion, PLA under Xi Jinping
2019 Hong Kong Protests: A Series of Contending Perspectives
Saumya Joshi

Introduction
The 2019 Hong Kong (HK)’ protests were one of the biggest street protests in the last three decades. The protests were against the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment)

July 30, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Article, Hong Kong protests, Hong Kong’s democracy, Hong Kong extradition bill
No Change in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Assertive Policies Despite Pressure
Jayadeva Ranade

Since more than the past 18 months Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been under increasing pressure because of the US-China Tariff war. Washington has also been trying to create an adverse international environme

July 29, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, China’s assertive policies, China’s aggressive posturing
Tiananmen Square Incident @ 30
Dr Gunjan Singh

The year 2019 is very special in the calendar of China as it marks some of the most important anniversaries. But the one anniversary which Beijing refuses to acknowledge is the thirty years since the Tiananmen Square Incident. On June 3 and 4, 1989 h

June 14, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, Tiananmen 89, Party surveillance in China
The Second Belt and Road Forum
Dr Gunjan Singh

The second Belt and Road Forum (BRF) was held in Beijing from April 25-27, 2019. The first BRF was held in 2017. This BRF saw the participation of more than 150 countries underscoring the argument that the appeal for Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) ha

May 06, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, Second Belt and Road Forum, Global interest on BRI, Xi Jinping’s benign narrative
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