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Chinascope is a weekly roundup about China that digs into the minds of China’s leaders, scholars, thinkers, business tycoons and Chinese people.

Chinese debating who to support — India or Canada. They don’t even get the Khalistan issue

Aadil Brar - September 25, 2023

China’s third aircraft carrier is ready for the sea even as defence minister goes missing

Xi Jinping toured Northeast China during G20. His way of showing he has ‘other priorities’

If Xi skips G20, India may have to host one of the weakest number 2 in Chinese politics

China’s Xinjiang Uyghur policy had a face. And that’s who Beijing got rid of this week

Aadil Brar - December 27, 2021

Chinascope — The Week Behind The Wall is everything you need to know about what’s happening in China this week.

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Xi Jinping wants Chinese artists and writers to practise ‘morality’. And a big editor quits

Aadil Brar - December 20, 2021

Chinascope — The Week Behind The Wall is everything you need to know about what’s happening in China this week.

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Bipin Rawat to Galwan, what kept China occupied this week. And why Taiwan is losing friends

Aadil Brar - December 13, 2021

Chinascope — The Week Behind The Wall is everything you need to know about what’s happening in China this week.

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This Nagaland hashtag trended on Weibo. And Xi wants China’s religions to first follow CCP

Aadil Brar - December 6, 2021

Chinascope — The Week Behind The Wall is everything you need to know about what’s happening in China this week.

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China has a negative celebrity list of 88, as Xi doubles down on 3rd term

Aadil Brar - November 29, 2021

Chinascope — The Week Behind The Wall is everything you need to know about what’s happening in China this week.

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‘Prepare to fight,’ China tells citizens. Xi Jinping has big plans for party and security

Aadil Brar - November 22, 2021

Chinascope — The Week Behind The Wall is everything you need to know about what’s happening in China this week.

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Historic Chinese resolution whitewashes Mao legacy, puts Xi Jinping at centre stage

Aadil Brar - November 15, 2021

Chinascope — The Week Behind The Wall is everything you need to know about what’s happening in China this week.

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China says Indian ‘govt-backed’ group Evil Flower is attacking it, shuts down airlines data

Aadil Brar - November 8, 2021

Chinese Weibo users are also asking why the country hasn’t ‘recovered’ Chumi Gyatse waterfall in Arunachal Pradesh from India. Some suggest occupying it.

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China’s Taliban strategy is taking shape. But it wants to secure its border regions first

Aadil Brar - November 1, 2021

Chinascope — The Week Behind The Wall is everything you need to know about what’s happening in China this week.

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China passes border law to formalise its actions at LAC. And Jack Ma is back

Aadil Brar - October 25, 2021

Chinascope — The Week Behind The Wall is everything you need to know about what’s happening in China this week.

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Opinion

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Johan Jose - November 5, 2025

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

Nitish Kumar’s journey from endurance to exhaustion

November 5, 2025

India’s think tanks double up as lobbyists, give no disclosures. Hurt policymaking

November 5, 2025

Economy

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

Tejas Bhatotia - November 5, 2025

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan - November 5, 2025

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta - November 1, 2025

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.