By portraying growth as somewhat defensive, Chinese commentary downplays how a defence budget of 1.91 trillion yuan may influence global strategic calculations.
Chinese discourse places particular emphasis on the role of the US, evaluating both the strategic feasibility of deeper American involvement and the broader geopolitical consequences.
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.
Electoral competition now appears dominated by welfare delivery and governance metrics, but ideology has not disappeared in Tamil Nadu. Instead, it has become strategic.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan says India’s nuclear capability will not be considered a separate domain, but part of cognitive war in multi domain operations.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
Deep seek breakthrough, typically, in India will be called out for various faults, gaps, unethics and so on. But it cannot be denied that what deepseek has been able to achieve is democratisation of hithertofore monopoly of American tech giants. Its affordability does more benefit to humanity. Strategic thinkers in India need to talk more about the positive lessons brought about that may benefit us- as against deriding deepseek as nothing more than a sasta chinese maal.
Deepseek must make it clear to the jingoistic Indians how far behind we are, compared to the Chinese, in technology and engineering.
The Hindutvawadis are itching for a chance to claim that AI and ML were mentioned in the Vedas or Upanishads or Puranas and our ancestors were masters of these technologies.
Deep seek breakthrough, typically, in India will be called out for various faults, gaps, unethics and so on. But it cannot be denied that what deepseek has been able to achieve is democratisation of hithertofore monopoly of American tech giants. Its affordability does more benefit to humanity. Strategic thinkers in India need to talk more about the positive lessons brought about that may benefit us- as against deriding deepseek as nothing more than a sasta chinese maal.
Deepseek must make it clear to the jingoistic Indians how far behind we are, compared to the Chinese, in technology and engineering.
The Hindutvawadis are itching for a chance to claim that AI and ML were mentioned in the Vedas or Upanishads or Puranas and our ancestors were masters of these technologies.