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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.

How China combined authoritarianism with capitalism to create a new communism

Tomasz Kamusella - 30 October, 2021

Technology and AI are communism 2.0’s largely bloodless methods for extending total control over the population, making sure that every individual toes the party line.

The era of Chinese optimism in Africa may be finally getting over

Malancha Chakrabarty - 30 October, 2021

Given the importance of Africa in China’s foreign policy, Beijing is likely to course correct.

‘Please smoke to keep me company’ – What a tired Mao told Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit in China

Nirupama Rao - 30 October, 2021

In ‘The Fractured Himalaya’, former foreign secretary Nirupama Rao writes how in the India-China relationship, the past shadows the present.

In this nuclear arms race, China’s hypersonic missile test is a ‘wake-up call’

Andreas Kluth - 29 October, 2021

The mental games by China demonstrate once again how, in the perverted logic of nuclear war, everything is interconnected.

If Indian states were countries, Delhi beat China’s TFR, but population policy still lost

Ankur Bhardwaj - 29 October, 2021

India's focus on population control policy is misplaced. According to SRS 2018, urban India TFR fell below the UN limit.

India dropped the ball in Kashmir, but it can’t afford to along the LAC

Snehesh Alex Philip - 29 October, 2021

For those who have been following the Kashmir and India-China developments closely, both outcomes are no surprise.

China’s hypersonic missile test very close to ‘Sputnik moment’, top US general says

Peter Martin - 28 October, 2021

Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley's comments are the most significant acknowledgment by a US official of reports that China conducted possibly two hypersonic weapons tests.

‘Taiwan has no right to join United Nations’ — China slams US support

Bloomberg News - 27 October, 2021

Day after Blinken urged countries to support Taiwan's participation in the US, China said the island should 'abandon the illusion of relying on ÚS for independence'.

India says China border law a ‘concern’, asks Beijing not use it to alter border situation

Nayanima Basu - 27 October, 2021

China passed ‘Land Border Law of the People's Republic of China’ on 23 October. The law deals with managing China’s land borders with greater firmness. India calls it 'unilateral'.

John Oliver’s Taiwan sketch receives backlash from Chinese media over ‘dodged facts’

Bloomberg News - 27 October, 2021

During the segment, Oliver sought to untangle China-Taiwan relationship and concluded that the island’s fate should be left up solely to the Taiwanese people.

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