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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.

China reacts guardedly to Japan-America-India partnership

PTI -
Beijing hopes that such cooperation will promote mutual trust and cooperation in this region and play a constructive role, said China. Beijing: China on Monday reacted...

Instead of loans, China to provide multiple bailout packages to Pakistan

Soniya Agrawal -
Here's what's happening across the border: Parents of Pak student killed in Texas school shooting sue shooter’s family, and Reham Khan speaks up against corporal punishment in schools.

India’s military retains 4th spot in global ranking, Pakistan drops to 17

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
In the Global Firepower List 2018, third-ranked China leads India in terms of active military personnel with its 21.83 lakh personnel as against India's 13.62 lakh.

Khashoggi’s WhatsApp messages offer new clues and US, China declare pause in new tariffs

Anagha Deshpande -
French President Emmanuel Macron moves to end violent protests and G-20 'family' picture sees fewest female leaders. 

Pakistan’s latest weapon from China — state-of-the-art ‘nuclear-capable’ SH-15 howitzer

Col. Vinayak Bhat (retd) -
The SH-15 appeared this week at a defence expo in Karachi. Pakistan is learnt to have ordered more than 50, enough for three artillery regiments.

On GDP, it’s time to construct an Indian version of the Li Keqiang index

TN Ninan -
The NITI Aayog has some explaining to do if the charge of official statistics having gone political is not to gain currency.

PM Imran Khan gives credit to wife Bushra Bibi for his 100 days’ success

Aastha Singh -
Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistan to convert Kapoor family’s ancestral house in Peshawar into museum, and Pak author’s novel to be adapted into Indian TV series.

China condemns scientist’s claim of altering embryo genes but in a bind over its legality

Bloomberg News -
Scientist He Jiankui's claim of altering genes of twin embryos has triggered a backlash from both the China government and scientific community. Shanghai: China is...

Pak PM Imran Khan to address the nation tomorrow, to highlight govt’s performance

Aastha Singh -
Here’s what’s happening across the border: 300 workers of far-right party TLP booked for sedition, and China says any attempt to undermine its relations with Pakistan is bound to fail.

Why Jack Ma the ‘Communist’ shouldn’t surprise anyone

Ananth Krishnan -
China has given its tech giants, Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, space to grow, but never ceded all control.
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Indian industry in Bangladesh is staring at a void. New Delhi must give line of credit to Dhaka

Shibani Mehta -
For New Delhi, SAFTA and CEPA will be critical. Such frameworks could institutionalise economic ties with Bangladesh, making them resilient to political disruptions.


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India should steer clear of an ‘Asian NATO’. Its strategic flexibility is at stake

Economy

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

Defence

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Smruti Deshpande -
Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

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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