Articles

China’s 2024 Review and Outlook for 2025

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

In 2024, China commemorated the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, held from July 15 to 18, 2024, emphasized structural transformation, technological innova....

January 29, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , India , Russia , ASEAN , Xi , BRICS , Corruption , military , AI , GDI , CPC Third Plenum

Views of Chinese Experts on Sino-US Relations

Jayadeva Ranade Article

As China’s economic situation becomes more difficult and its aggressive policies increase tensions in its neighbourhood, the Chinese leadership is concerned at the turn that its relations with the US are taking. This has generated renewed discuss....

January 12, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , China , Article , Xi , CCP , Biden , Wang Yi , CICIR , Cui Tiankai , Yuan Peng , Zhang Baijian

Likely Geopolitical Trends in 2022

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

We should expect a sharpening of great power rivalries and an increase in geopolitical tensions in 2022. If 2021 provides any indications, the world is likely to remain turbulent in the absence of credible mechanisms and effective cooperation to reso....

January 01, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , India , Pakistan , US , China , Russia , democracy , Indo-Pacific , Xi , Taiwan , West Asia , Taliban , Neighbourhood , Biden

China: Daily Scan, November 29, 2021

Chinese premier calls for enhanced coordination with UN: Xinhuanet

November 26, 2021

China stands ready to strengthen coordination with the United Nations to implement the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, strengthen S....

November 29, 2021 Xi , Taiwan , Huawei , China Daily Digest , Tencent , Lambda , Mu , Nu , Omicron , Xiaomi

The Economic and Geopolitical Implications of Evergrande

Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran Article

More often than not, the most objective and well-analysed piece of writing is not possible when a crisis is unfolding. The tendency of journalists and analysts will be to rush information to their readers and clients, respectively. There will be less....

October 14, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi , Fiscal Deficit , Evergrande , Debt crisis , Communist Party , Lehman Brothers , property boom , Yuan

‘Great Rejuvenation’ of the Chinese Nation to Continue: Xi’s Message at the CCP Centenary Celebrations

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The Chinese Communist Party celebrated its 100th birth anniversary. CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a much anticipated speech on the occasion. Being a centenary speech, it had obvious political significance. It sums up the state of affair....

July 06, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Xi , CCP , PLA , Party Congress , Centenary , China rejuvenation

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

Ultra Virus | A Poem

Amb Kanwal Sibal Commentary

The road to the exalted status of Xi-ri Xi-ri Xi-ri Xi-ri Xi-ri Xi

In lanes behind Hotel Raffles In Singapore it still baffles Me how our dear friend Hu Noh Lai Knew I would be passing by. He softly whispered in my ea....

June 13, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , China , Xi , Ultra Plans , Ultra Virus , Propaganda Department

TAKING OFF CHINA’S XI-RT | A POEM

Amb Kanwal Sibal Commentary

The situation seems to be: To responsibility Xi-rk, The Chinese will Xi-lly shally, As long as delay will work To get them out of a Xi-t hole, So they make a lot of Xi-ndig, Knowing their armour has a WHO-le, They think that by some ....

April 28, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , China , Xi , Xi Jinping , Wuhan virus , WHO , COVID-19 , Coronavirus crisis

‘China’s Future’, by David Shambaugh, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016, Pages: 203, Price: $ 19.95, ISBN: 978-15095-0714-6

Gunjan Singh

The path which China will pursue in the coming future is one of the most debated and discussed topic among the current academic and policy making circle. The direction which Chinese politics, society and economy adopt almost directly impacts a large ....

August 28, 2018 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Xi , Chinese economy , CCP , Book Reviews , Chinese society , Chinese politics