A commentator attributed the supposed surge in demand for Chinese arms to three factors: Pakistan’s self-declared May 2025 victory, rising geopolitical uncertainty, and China’s price advantage.
The views of analysts reflect a wider Chinese tendency to emphasise regime resilience and caution against overstating the impact of what they are calling as ‘street mobilisation’.
China’s long-standing loans and investments, usually repaid through oil exports and settled in RMB, are now at risk, while US control threatens Beijing’s influence in Latin America.
Across the varied reading of the NSS in Chinese media, one thread recurs: The more Trump leans toward isolationism, the more volatile the global order is likely to become.
‘India has 200 Russian aircraft and multiple S-400s. Now Putin brings Su-57s and S-500s. Given China-India and India-Pakistan dynamics, what game is he playing?’ wrote a Weibo user.
Trump’s announcement of a security arrangement that would allow Riyadh to acquire jets like Israel’s F-35 is seen in China as much more than a routine arms deal.
Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of the ‘Global Times’, described Takaichi’s behaviour as political sleepwalking and said that Japanese leaders must become more self-aware.
While export values have increased, India’s share in the global dairy trade has remained largely stagnant, despite being the world’s largest milk producer.
Initial talks held on the possibility of India entering the programme that was started in 2017 between France, Germany and Spain to ensure European sovereignty in defence and security.
China’s GDP size is five times ours. For the manufacturing sector, the asymmetry widens further to 10x. So it is not realistic to talk in terms of India replacing China as the world’s factory. What is feasible instead is to analyse the factors and constraints that have kept Make in India not the success it was expected to be. With effects on job creation and exports. And to then diligently work on reducing those limitations, in collaboration with India Inc. With the Trump administration focused on Making America Great Again, this is something we have to do on our own.
China’s GDP size is five times ours. For the manufacturing sector, the asymmetry widens further to 10x. So it is not realistic to talk in terms of India replacing China as the world’s factory. What is feasible instead is to analyse the factors and constraints that have kept Make in India not the success it was expected to be. With effects on job creation and exports. And to then diligently work on reducing those limitations, in collaboration with India Inc. With the Trump administration focused on Making America Great Again, this is something we have to do on our own.