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China is Replacing Ethnic Languages with Mandarin
Jayadeva Ranade Article

Wary of efforts by the US and West to bring about the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), particularly as memories of the disintegration of the erstwhile Soviet Union and collapse of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) still rem....

February 18, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , CCP , Han , Mandarin , Mongolian , Tibetan , United Front Work
Xi Jinping Further Strengthens Chinese Communist Party’s ‘Magic Weapon’-The United Front Work Department
Jayadeva Ranade Article

China is making efforts to arrest the slide in US-China relations and lower temperatures after Joe Biden takes over as President on January 20. In addition to Chinese Politburo member and former Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi’s plans for visiting Was....

January 19, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , CCP , rejuvenation of Chinese nation , United Front Work Department , UFWD
China’s ‘Helmsman’ and the Game of Monopoly
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

China looms large on Indian public consciousness driven by cataclysmic COVID-19 virus that caused the global pandemic, aggression in 2020 and continued tense face-off in Eastern Ladakh. At the turn of the new decade three events stand out for mention....

January 11, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , India , Xi , Chinese Dream , CMC , CCP , BRI , Uighur , National Defence Law , Mongols , National People's Conference
An Authoritative Chinese Assessment of How China Views India
Jayadeva Ranade Article

Far from any signs of an end to the military stand-off between India and China, or that tensions between the two will ease, China’s mood towards India is hardening. There are indications that China sees the current confrontation as the beginning of....

January 08, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , CCP , PLA , Galwan valley , Line of Actual Control , CICIR , Hu Shisheng
China: Path to Hi-Technology
Jayadeva Ranade Article

The world is on the threshold of major technology advances that will translate what has so far been in the realm of science fiction to everyday reality. There is clear promise of transformational changes, with the next couple of decades being witness....

December 24, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , CCP , Robotics , AI , Civil Military Integration , Digital Belt and Road , SOEs , Thousand Talents programme
Understanding the Complexities and Paradoxes of the Chinese Dream
Aakriti Vinayak Commentary

The oft-quoted slogan “Chinese dream” by the President Xi Jinping, which was under spotlight when it was introduced, has gained widespread attention and jitters in China and the outside world. Inside China, the Chinese dream is everywhere, on str....

December 09, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Belt and Road Initiative , Xi Jinping , Chinese Dream , CCP , COVID-19 , China's perfidy , Rejuvenation
PLA: Reading Tea Leaves1
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Any study of PLA gets hit by the wall of opacity or broad based sources, lacking as it is of military transparency and accountability. Xinhua or People’s Daily or Global Times tend to enjoy official patronage and state the official line in t....

October 26, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , CMC , CCP , LAC , Ladakh , corruption PLA , Gen Zhang Yang , peace disease , 1959 Line
India-China Face Off- Has China Committed a Faux Pas?
Amb Kanwal Sibal Article

China has committed a grave error in triggering a military confrontation in Ladakh. It has underestimated the Indian resolve to stand up to its bullying tactics. Doklam should have been a warning to China that its military efforts to gain territorial....

September 09, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Xi Jinping , CCP , PLA , LAC , Ladakh , Pangong Tso , Wang Yi , economic front , military conflict , Defence Ministers meeting
China menace decoded by the USA
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Article

If Sino Indian relations have reached an inflexion point following China's breach of all agreements as demonstrated by their recent actions in Eastern Ladakh so too have Sino-US relations. While the latter had been under stress, since the advent of t....

August 11, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , India , US , China , QUAD , Trump , CCP , Covid , WTO , Huawei , ZTE , LAC , Xi Jinping dreams , Stealing data , FBI cases , Intellectual property , espionage
A Brief Assessment of China’s 3rd Session of the 13th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference - May 2020
Jayadeva Ranade Article

  1. As usual China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), held its annual plenary session in Beijing along with the National People’s Congress (NPC). The plenum was delayed this year a....

    June 23, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Politburo , CCP , PLA , Li Keqiang , COVID-19 , CPCC , PAP , Deputies , critics of Xi , Hong Kong Deputies , National security Law , TAR , Xinjiang
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