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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 hopes India will show goodwill, facilitate journalists, says foreign ministry spokesperson

Reuters -
China barred 2 Indian journalists from returning to Beijing, weeks after India asked a Chinese journalist to leave country, according to Hindustan Times report.

China accounts for two thirds of world’s planned new coal power, says Global Energy Monitor

David Stanway -
UN has urged nations to stop building new plants and phase out coal consumption by 2040 in order to slash climate-warming carbon emissions.

China is launching a two-pronged attack on Bhutan and Arunachal—with strategic ‘lawfare’

Aadil Brar -
Even if Beijing and Thimphu can settle their dispute over non-Doklam areas, China isn’t planning to stop claiming the Doklam trijunction area.

US Speaker meets Taiwanese President Tsai, stresses need to speed up arms deliveries

Michael Martina -
China quickly denounced the meeting, accusing the US of colluding with separatists seeking 'Taiwan independence' and saying that it has been breaching its commitments over the island.

‘Reset’ or risky business?: EU leaders return to reopened China

Michel Rose -
Macron on his first trip to China since 2019, spoke to Biden before the visit about trying to engage Xi on hastening the end of the war in Ukraine started by Beijing's close ally Russia.

China’s renaming of Arunachal locations is no first. It’s done it thrice since 2017

Suchet Vir Singh -
China’s latest list of ‘new’ names for Arunachal locations comes after two earlier renaming rounds in 2017 and 2021. MEA has rejected ‘invented names’.

Led by China, India, the 5 BRICS nations now contribute more to world GDP than industrialised G7

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
BRICS countries overtook G7 in 2020 by making up a larger share of global GDP in PPP terms, with China & India respectively in second and third positions globally that year.

Should India make tactical nukes to counter China? Delhi’s no-first-use rule has no room for it

Lt General Prakash Menon -
The issue that needs reflection is whether our nuclear arsenal, shaped by our nuclear doctrine, adequately caters for a nuclear exchange that commences with use of TNWs.

China’s reopening brightens developing Asia’s 2023 growth outlook, says Asian Development Bank

Karen Lema -
Developing Asia is forecast to grow 4.8% in 2023, the ADB said in its Asian Development Outlook report, more than its previous estimate of 4.6% in December.

For Xi, Moscow trip wasn’t enough. Meeting three world leaders in one day has a message

Aadil Brar -
Xi met Spanish President Pedro Sanchez, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at the Boao Forum in Hainan.
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A frosty start featuring ‘ULFA tapes’, thawed by a love of dogs. My conversations with Ratan Tata

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Besides politics, his frustrations with business environment & inspirational ideas ranging from entrepreneurship to technology, aviation, philanthropy, we discovered a common passion: dogs

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Economy

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

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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

Amid concerns about use of Chinese parts in drones, Army general urges industry to be transparent

Smruti Deshpande -
Maj Gen CS Mann, ADG, Army Design Bureau, cites national security concerns. This comes after intelligence agencies flagged use of Chinese components in drones purchased by armed forces.

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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