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India watches as China ‘accelerates’ construction along border with Bhutan

US allows international banks to transfer aid money to Afghanistan China speeded up construction in 2021, according to new satellite images and experts, erecting more than 200 structures in six…

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Himalayan bridge project sparks fresh China – India tension

By Bilal Hussain The tension between India and China is mounting again in the Himalayan region of Ladakh over a new bridge constructed by the Chinese on the banks of…

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Xijinpingistan is why India should co-opt Pakistan

By Bharat Karnad It is my perennial lament. I pen it again, with sorrow, on the country's 73rd Republic Day. (Yea, I watched the parade but what's with the marching…

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Mixed signals from Ladakh

By M. K. Bhadrakumar Is the glass half empty? Or, is the glass half full? How would you choose to describe the recent meeting of the Indian and Chinese army…

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Pearl Harbor! Lessons for the emerging China

By Bismah Mirza Almost 80 years ago, on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor took place. It is believed that the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese was in retaliation to…

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Special Address by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 2022 World Economic Forum Virtual Session

Answers must be given to major, urgent questions of how to beat the pandemic and how to build the post-COVID world, Chinese President Xi Jipning said at the 2022 World…

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China has increasingly hardened its position

By Talmiz Ahmad Maroof Raza, distinguished commentator on India's security challenges, has in this well-researched and lucid book provided the various dimensions of the border dispute that lies at the…

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China’s BRI crown jewel joins the era of defiance and dissent

The crown jewel of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) increasingly looks like a powder keg that has exploded By Dr. James M. Dorsey Mass protests have for the past…

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Beware China’s taking the gloves off over Taiwan

By Tom Fowdy Beijing's had enough of Taipei's posturing and the stream of support being drummed up for Taiwan across the West. Military action's unlikely, but it will use its…

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Ladakh! ‘There will be more and more trouble’

'Once positions are hardened and troops start building defences, it is difficult for soldiers to step back’ By Archana Masih "It is nearly 20 months since the standoff. Achieving status…

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