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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.

Days after China-Philippines skirmish in South China Sea, Indian warship at Manila to bolster ties

Smruti Deshpande -
Navy's INS Kadmatt is an anti-submarine warfare corvette equipped with state-of-the-art anti-submarine weapon suite. 'Enhancing cooperation & exchanging best practices' on agenda.

Myanmar crisis has put India in a difficult situation. Can it balance competing interests?

Praveen Swami -
Ever since the Myanmar military regained control of the State in 2021, India—like China and other nations in Southeast Asia—has seen its power as a kind of necessary evil.

Chinese ambassador summoned over South China Sea ‘harassment,’ says Philippines’ foreign ministry

Neil Jerome Morales -
The ministry has asked China to direct its vessels to cease and desist from ‘illegal actions and dangerous manoeuvres against Philippine vessels.’

‘Pure aggression’ — Philippine military chief aboard boat in latest clash with China as tensions rise

Dishha Bagchi -
Chinese coast guard & militia ships targeted Philippine vessels on 2 consecutive days this weekend with water cannon blasts and crashed into one of them, Philippine officials have said.

‘Shadow banking’, ‘rotten tails’ & mortgage boycotts — how China’s housing market unravelled

Cut The Clutter by Shekhar Gupta -
This is the edited transcript of ThePrint CutTheClutter Episode 1363, published on 7 December 2023, on China’s housing crisis & ‘shadow banking’ sector.

China says Japanese vessels illegally entered waters around East China Sea

Reuters -
The waters are around disputed islands, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan, which are claimed by both countries.

As Italy withdraws from BRI after 4 yrs, a look at whether it benefited from China’s initiative

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Italy has reportedly notified China of its intention to exit Belt & Road Initiative. Since joining initiative in 2019, the move has been criticised by Italian politicians like PM Meloni.

As China’s slowing economy faces capital flight, focus is on ‘managing the crisis’

Keshav Padmanabhan -
July-September quarter saw China record 1st FDI deficit. It's also grappling with exit of individual wealth triggered by factors like loss of faith in real estate sector, say experts.

India to become world’s third-largest economy by 2030 says S&P Global Ratings report

Nandan Mandayam -
S&P expects India, currently world’s 5th largest economy, to grow at 6.4% this fiscal. In contrast, it expects China’s growth to slow to 4.6% by 2026 from estimated 5.4% this year.

Decoupling, derisking, China + 1. All Beijing wants is a less hostile, more predictable US

Zorawar Daulet Singh -
For China, the real upside from San Francisco is that a US-led containment strategy has been neutralised.
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Opinion

Why Modi-Shah have failed to develop mass leaders in states the way Vajpayee-Advani did

+TFP D.K. Singh -
BJP had leaders like Modi, Chouhan, Raje, Raman Singh, BSY, and Dhumal who kept the party’s flame burning. Those promoted by Modi-Shah in the last 10 years fail to inspire confidence.

Arikamedu is an ancient Indo-Roman trading port. There’s a reason you’ve never heard of it

Beijing is concerned about anti-China sentiment in India. New Delhi is focused on border

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Economy

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Swenja Surminski -
Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Defence

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Prabhakar Tamilarasu -
Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

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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