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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.

US sanctions 3 Chinese firms for ‘supplying materials’ to Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme 

Smruti Deshpande -
Pakistan reportedly has 170 nuclear warheads. US State Dept claims firms were 'materially contributing to proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery’.

Will Xi’s ‘dear friend’ Putin help stop the economic damage China faces? Question for BRI at 10

Seshadri Chari -
Manufacturing in China has contracted for the fifth straight month, prompting authorities to announce a series of tax reliefs and incentives to fuel consumer spending.

China’s envoy to Middle East says lack of guarantees for Palestinian rights caused Israel-Hamas war

Liz Lee -
In Qatar, China's envoy Zhai Jun reaffirms Beijing's alignment with Russia to help de-escalate Israel-Hamas war. Crisis has also increasingly put China, Russia in separate camps from US.

Taliban says it plans to formally join China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Joe Cash -
Beijing has sought to develop its ties with the Taliban regime since it took over in 2021, even though no foreign government has recognised the administration.

China seeks quick end to Israel-Hamas conflict, ceasefire ‘imperative’, says Xi

Liz Lee -
The Chinese president's remarks are among the first he has made about the conflict which erupted after Hamas launched an assault on Israel on 7 October.

Putin, Taliban and Xi to rub shoulders in Beijing today as China hosts 3rd Belt and Road Forum

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Experts say, by having the Russian President come down, ignoring an international court's arrest warrant against him, Beijing wants to label international law as solely for Western powers.

Putin to visit China this week to deepen ‘no limits’ partnership with Xi

Guy Faulconbridge -
Putin will attend Belt and Road Forum in Beijing from 17 to 18 October in his first trip outside former Soviet states since International Criminal Court issued a warrant for him.

Russia’s power will go down while China will become assertive, predicts CDS Gen Chauhan

Smruti Deshpande -
Gen. Chauhan says military leadership is trying to give reforms certain speed in a particular direction. Warfare characteristics are changing because of new technologies, he adds.

NewsClick owner’s earnings used to be all from India. Within a year, this flipped to 99% from abroad

Mayank Kumar -
ThePrint analyses financial records of PPK NewsClick Studio Private Limited, which owns NewsClick, for the period from 11 January 2018 to 31 March 2022.

Women, children among 29 killed after artillery strike on Myanmar refugee camp

Reuters -
The shelling took place close to midnight on Monday in Kachin State when artillery hit the camp about 5 km (3 miles) from a base in the border town of Laiza run by the KIA.
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India’s diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific has an economic hole. Fill it with trade, investment

Richard Rossow -
Modi govt has made economic diplomacy a key part of its engagement with US, Quad, and others. Yet, India’s economic linkages in Indo-Pacific region remain underdeveloped.

India relied on Western data for cancer care. Now, a platform pulls data from Indian patients

Dear Indian women, leave your fundamental rights at the wedding altar

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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