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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.

Mean or nice? It’s time for India to decide what kind of economic policy it wants to follow

TN Ninan -
Hypocrisies of yesterday’s rule-makers contribute to India’s nationalist impulse, but it must choose if it wants to be admired for its soft power or be seen as an arbitrary state.

Chinese-Canadian actor & former K-pop idol Kris Wu sentenced to 13 years in jail for rape

Reuters -
A Chinese court in Beijing said investigations showed that from Nov to Dec 2020, Wu raped three women. He was also found guilty of assembling a crowd to engage in sexual promiscuity.

Covid infections in China hit record high, cities impose lockdowns, mass testing

Reuters -
The curbs are taking a toll on locked-down residents as well as output at factories, including the world's biggest iPhone plant, which has been rocked by clashes.

Xi’s promotion of technocrats has two goals—compete with US, reduce challenge to his power

Aadil Brar -
Xi is looking towards the promoted technocrats to achieve his home-spurred scientific innovation goal and ensure they can’t challenge him at the next Party Congress.

As Australia clears free trade pact, India hopes to tap into its minerals, curb reliance on China

Nayanima Basu -
Australian Parliament ratifies Australia-India Economic Cooperation & Trade Agreement as Delhi, Canberra aim to take on Beijing in two-way trade.

36 killed in factory fire at ‘high-tech zone’ of China’s Anyang city

Reuters -
The fire broke out Monday afternoon at a private firm, Kaixinda Trading, the state media reported. Two people have been sent to the hospital for treatment and two others are missing.

Schools shut in several Beijing districts as China reports over 26,000 Covid cases in a day

Reuters -
On Sunday, China reported 26,824 new local cases, nearing April’s peaks. It also recorded two deaths in Beijing, up from one on Saturday, which was China’s first since late May.

Why artillery, Russia’s ‘god of war’, couldn’t crush the Ukrainians & what it means for India

+TFP Snehesh Alex Philip -
Massed guns have proved unable to compete with precision-guided modern weapons. The final piece of a 3-part series on lessons for India's military from the Ukraine war.

FBI chief ‘very concerned’ by existence of Chinese ‘police stations’ in US cities

Michael Martina -
According to a report, the stations were an extension of Beijing's efforts to pressure some Chinese nationals or their relatives abroad to return to China to face criminal charges.

Many factors led to Army giving up in 1962. But psychological collapse played a big role

+TFP Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
The Army had studied PLA tactics in the Korean War and knew the antidote to its strategy. But on ground, it violated all the fundamentals.
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Opinion

Indira, Manmohan, Modi, all raised income inequality. Until Hindu fears took the driving seat

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
The issue of inequality has assumed the blazing limelight at a time when inequality in India is said to be higher than it was in the British Raj. It's a ripe situation for half-truths and incendiary statements.

Modi’s speech rightly questions politics of appeasement. Wrongly targets all Muslims

Russia has a window to exploit & defeat Ukraine. Otherwise, it will get sucked into endless war

Economy

Foreign policy resonating among more Indians in 2nd & 3rd tier towns of India, says EAM Jaishankar

Pia Krishnankutty -
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.

Defence

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

National Interest

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

Shekhar Gupta -
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.

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