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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.

ISI got Pashtun rights activist named on no-fly list

Manisha Mondal -
Here’s what’s happening across the border: Imran Khan hails China visit and is off to Malaysia late November; Malala’s father’s biography gets published.

Asia Bibi flees, says Pak media, foreign office denies reports

Aastha Singh -
Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistan Television network’s acting MD sacked in ‘begging’ goof-up and government raises the release of terrorist Aafia Siddiqui from US jail. 

Trump threatens Democrats with ‘warlike posture’, and Prince Charles speaks in Pidgin

Priyamvada Grover -
Trump 'compels' US attorney general Jeff Sessions to resign, and Silicon Valley startups continue to take Saudi money.

INS Arihant may be ready, but India shouldn’t pop the champagne bottle yet

Arun Kumar Singh -
INS Arihant deterrence patrol is a significant milestone, but one nuclear submarine isn’t enough to keep Pakistan and China at bay.

As our cities get more crowded & polluted, taking trains to work might be the only answer

David Fickling -
How the world deals with the pressure, as urbanization pushes our metro areas still closer to breaking point, will define the shape of transport over the coming decades.

56 years after China war, India still lacks crucial strategic culture

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
India did not modify its strategy to make optimum use of limited capacity and virtually courted defeat in 1962.

India exempted from sanctions because of its value to Chabahar port & Afghanistan railway line: US

Lalit K Jha -
The Chabahar Port is considered a gateway to golden opportunities for trade by India with central Asian countries.

What are we to make of China’s plans to build a Silk Road railway through the heart of Asia?

David Fickling -
In China itself, rail traffic peaked in 2013 and has never quite recovered, despite an economy that’s grown by half since then.

INS Arihant is welcome, but India is far short of Chinese nuclear submarine capability

Sujan Dutta -
China is also providing support to the Pakistani Navy, including offering to build submarines. India is keeping a close eye on these developments.

Imran Khan’s China visit shows Narendra Modi government oversold Wuhan summit

Ananth Krishnan -
The China-Pakistan joint statement shows close alignment on issues that are thorny irritants in the India-China relationship.
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Indian industry in Bangladesh is staring at a void. New Delhi must give line of credit to Dhaka

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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

You can’t ‘wish away’ China, India must balance economic & security considerations, says Sanjeev Sanyal

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Sanyal, an economist & member of the Economic Advisory Council to PM, also suggests that if India is to import parts from China, why not allow Chinese companies to manufacture in India.

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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