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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.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk willing to expand business in China, says foreign ministry

Josh Arslan -
In the meeting, Musk told Chinese foreign minister Qin that he opposed a decoupling of US-Chinese economies, according to a statement from Chinese foreign ministry.

China launched 79 AI large language models since 2020, says report by govt research institutes

Qiaoyi Li -
The report says that Chinese organisations released 2 large-language models (LLM) in 2020, compared with 11 in US. In 2021, there was a total of 30 LLMs released in each country.

China launches Shenzhou-16 mission, send astronauts to its fully operational space station

Liz Lee -
The astronauts on Shenzhou-16 will replace the three-member crew of the Shenzhou-15, who arrived at the space station late in November.

More Chinese now regard India as a security threat. Only 8% consider it favourable

Aadil Brar -
The survey conducted by Tsinghua University reveals that the Chinese view Russia favourably and say US has the most impact on China’s security environment.

China urges Japan to correct its ‘wrongdoing’ of imposing chip export controls

Joe Cash -
Japan, along with the Netherlands, in January agreed to match US export controls that will limit the sale of some chipmaking tools to China.

China will launch Shenzhou-16 mission to Chinese space station on 30 May

Reuters -
The spacecraft Shenzhou-16 will lift off atop a Long March 2F rocket at 9:31 a.m (0131 GMT).

China hinting enlarged buffer zones at LAC. Here’s what India can do

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
The Chinese incursions in Eastern Ladakh in May 2020 and the ongoing creeping forward along the McMahon Line are aimed at reimposing it’s version of the LAC.

Rick Waters, US top China official, to step down amid tensions

Michael Martina -
Waters, deputy assistant secretary of State for China and Taiwan, will leave his role on 23 June and remain a member of the senior foreign service, according to the US State Dept.

Telecom to transportation hubs, Microsoft says Chinese hackers spying on US critical infrastructure

Zeba Siddiqui -
The espionage has also targeted the US island territory of Guam, home to strategically important American military bases, Microsoft said in a report.

Chinese provinces built big-ticket infra on debt. Now a $23-tn crisis threatens to derail Xi’s BRI

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Economic troubles have left Chinese provincial governments on a sticky wicket, leading to the slowdown of the country's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative.
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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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