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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.

Pro-India party in Bhutan gets knocked out of polls as Doklam jitters abound

Jyoti Malhotra -
The elimination of outgoing PM Tshering Tobgay’s party is a signal that Bhutan doesn’t want to be seen as either pro-India or pro-China.

There’s no meat to the argument that India is a vegetarian nation

Tani Khara -
Vegetarianism in India has been gradually becoming less strict over the past 30 years.

How Jack Ma made rich capitalists acceptable in communist China

Lulu Yilun Chen -
Ma showed that an innovative private enterprise could thrive under a Communist regime once hostile, and still at times suspicious, of ambitious capitalists.

China’s Silicon Valley dream needs a reality check

Nisha Gopalan -
While China has moved to make it easier for people from Hong Kong and Macau to live and work in the mainland, challenges remain.

The fear of another crisis like 2008 has made banking more boring

Mihir Sharma -
In a bid to make finance safe, we have ended up forcing developing countries to rely on their own resources or on dangerous new benefactors, such as China for funds. 

India cannot take Nepal for granted and has to do more than just optics

Seshadri Chari -
It would be naïve for India to assume that China is seriously interested in a relatively small economy of Nepal.

India meets all qualifications to be NSG member, China’s veto stopping it: US

Lalit K Jha -
China wants India to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty while many NSG members have supported India's membership bid.

US visa restrictions unable to curb China’s rise as a global academic power

Peter R. Orszag -
China has witnessed a rapid scientific expansion between 2000 and 2016, as its share of global scientific publications has quadrupled. 

China proposes a bullet train service between Kolkata and Kunming

PTI -
The high-speed rail network if finalised will pass through Myanmar, Bangladesh and have a cluster of industries along the route. 

China is boosting Pakistan’s power generation but it’s of little use to consumers

Chris Kay -
Pakistan has added half of its power generating capacity in the past 5 years with Chinese help but a weak distribution network isn't helping.
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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

Compete, coexist, confront & contest: Army chief General Dwivedi says on dealing with China

Smruti Deshpande -
Referring to current situation, General Upendra Dwivedi says it is stable but not normal; instead, sensitive. He adds the diplomatic side can only come up with certain options.

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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