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Topic: China

China is a South Asian country, sharing borders with 14 countries including India. Its significance lies in its rise in the region and hegemonic influence over smaller countries through loans and the Belt and Road Initiative. China and India have fought a major war in the 60s and have disputes over the Aksai Chin and LAC, and tensions over the Indo-Pacific.

We’ll probably have to work longer than our parents did. Retirement ages are shifting

John Letzing -
China’s plan to 'gradually delay' the legal retirement age shows people can unify around a single sentiment: nobody likes it.

Dark tale of China’s sci-fi industry — how to remain on the right side of CCP’s censorship

Aadil Brar -
It doesn't matter that the plot of a sci-fi book or film is fictitious, the CCP wants to ensure that the imagination of writers and filmmakers doesn’t run amok.

There’s a Chinese ‘storm’ coming. India needs to consider 5 factors to face this challenge

+TFP Raj Shukla -
India must devise a new playbook that recognises national security today is a domain of intense competition. It needs innovation and new talent.

Communist Xi explains capital’s benefits as Chinese executives speak up on economic crisis

+TFP Aadil Brar -
Business leaders now openly say that Beijing’s zero-Covid policies are slowly destroying the economy. It is becoming difficult for many to justify Xi’s ‘common prosperity’ campaign.

China wants to reduce smoking, but its largest revenue comes from tobacco. Solution? BRI

Bhavdeep Modi -
While China hopes to curtail domestic tobacco consumption by 2030, it also aims to control the global tobacco market in its entirety.

Jobs a bigger problem than trade deficit: What India should remember in atmanirbhar push

TN Ninan -
Want of electronic chips has upset auto sector. Tomorrow, battery production may be hit by shortage of cobalt or lithium. You can’t protect yourself up & down the full value chain.

Indian students can return to China, but Beijing to issue permission on ‘need-assessed basis’

Nayanima Basu -
Decision comes a month after External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar raised the issue with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. Thousands of Indian students are enrolled in Chinese universities.

How Xi Jinping’s ‘mole hunt’ led to CIA losing dozens of Chinese informants

Roger Faligot -
In ‘Chinese Spies’, Roger Faligot writes about Chinese intelligence services that now rival CIA, Mossad, R&AW, DGSE, and MI6.

EU moving away from China, patching trade with India. But Modi must retain ‘national interest’

Seshadri Chari -
India and the EU will have to increase the speed of their trade and engagement in new geopolitical realities. New Delhi must watch out for challenges.

India remains first, won’t allow China to ‘grab’ land, says ex-Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed

Nayanima Basu -
Nasheed, who is now Speaker of the Maldivian Parliament, warned against China’s ‘land grab and debt trap’ policy, adding that it put the island nation under massive debt burden.
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Opinion

Drop that cigarette. Smokers are twice as likely to develop skin cancer compared to non-smokers

Deepali Bhardwaj -
A noticeable effect of smoking is premature aging. Studies indicate that the skin biopsy of a 40-year-old heavy smoker can resemble that of a 70-year-old non-smoker.

Indians are musically poor. We aren’t a good market for cutting-edge international bands

Is your boyfriend Dalda or ghee? Try introducing him to your close friends

Economy

10 yrs ago, battery leasing failed to boost demand for EV cars in India. Now, it’s making a comeback

Yuthika Bhargava -
Under this model, battery is provided to EV owners on a subscription basis or lease. With more people open to buying EV cars, the lower upfront cost could likely drive wider acceptance.

Defence

Morocco signs pact with Tata for joint manufacture of WhAP Infantry Fighting Vehicle

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The armoured platform is India's first amphibious infantry combat wheeled vehicle. Last year, the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces had procured 90 military trucks from the Tata Group.

National Interest

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

Shekhar Gupta -
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?

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