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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 to build secret base in Cuba to spy on US, says WSJ reports

Matt Spetalnick -
The countries have reached an agreement in principle, the officials said, with China to pay Cuba 'several billion dollars' to allow the eavesdropping station, the Journal reported.

Taiwan activates air defence after reporting 37 Chinese military aircraft entered its zone

Ben Blanchard -
China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has over the past three years regularly flown its air force into the skies near the island.

UK to do away with Chinese-made surveillance systems from sensitive govt sites

Muvija M -
British lawmakers previously called for a ban on the sale and use of security cameras made by Hikvision and Dahua, two partly state-owned Chinese firms, over privacy fears.

Lender on a bender? Why China’s bailing BRI nations out of defaulting on Chinese loans

Keshav Padmanabhan -
President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative & cheque-book diplomacy face real-world test of post-Covid financial distress, as nations indebted to China are confronted with default on loans. 

Overseas CEOs, including Elon Musk, make way to China marking a rare silent, low-key visit

Brenda Goh -
Lack of information from Western CEOs and their firms about China trips can be attributed to wariness given that US-Sino political-trade tensions have worsened to their lowest.

Why close encounters between US and Chinese militaries may continue

Michael Martina -
China and US have accused each other of military interventions. Add to this problem is also the lack of reliable communication channels between the two militaries.

China, Russia conduct joint air patrol over Sea of Japan, East China Sea – alarms South Korea

Albee Zhang -
South Korea scrambled fighter jets, according to its military, after 4 Russian and 4 Chinese military aircraft entered its air defence zone in south and east of Korean peninsula.

UN ‘alarmed’ after Hong Kong police detain 23 people on Tiananmen anniversary

Jessie Pang -
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Twitter for the release of anyone detained for 'exercising freedom of expression and peaceful assembly'.

Scramble for Pacific Islands: China, US, India & now South Korea vie for influence in remote nations

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Global powers are using different approaches to connect with strategically significant region interlinked with global peace. Amid this, 1st Korea-Pacific Islands Summit was held end May.

Chinese state media criticise US diplomat’s visit to Beijing, calls it ‘motivated’

Ryan Woo -
Sino-US relations have sunk to new lows since Antony Blinken scrapped a planned trip to China in February after an alleged Chinese spy balloon flew through US airspace.
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Read the Kashmir verdict. It’s time to stop treating it like a national security crisis

+TFP Praveen Swami -
Election after election has seen Kashmir’s people demonstrate that, like other Indians, they seek a future shaped by democratic rights and norms

Haryana, J&K results hold one lesson—INDIA alliance should be the face in fight against BJP

China must know India is too important for South Asia to abandon. Muizzu visit is proof

Economy

RBI’s policy-setting body keeps rates unchanged for 10th straight time, changes stance to ‘neutral’

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Change in stance signals possibility of rate cuts, potentially as early as December, depending on inflation trends & global economy. Growth projection for FY 2024-25 retained at 7.2%.

Defence

Massive in size & capable of heavyweight strikes. Russia’s S-70 Okhotnik is unlike any other drone

Smruti Deshpande -
No clarity on whether it was shot down intentionally or accidentally.Some reports suggest that it was purposely brought down to prevent Ukrainians getting their hands on the drone.

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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