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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 begins ‘unprecedented’ military exercise around Taiwan after Nancy Pelosi’s unannounced visit

ThePrint Team -
China’s warning to Pelosi not to visit the self-ruled island, which it considers its own, fell on deaf ears as the US pushed forward its agenda on ‘democracy and human rights’.

Resolve crisis of students back from China & Ukraine mid-course, House panel tells MEA 

Nayanima Basu -
Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs says it is 'deeply concerned' as students have neither been able to return to China & Ukraine nor complete their training in India.

‘Joint blockade’, live-fire drills — how China is retaliating after Pelosi’s Taiwan visit

Suchet Vir Singh -
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Tuesday became first high-ranking US official to visit Taipei in 25 years, after which China launched swathe of military exercises in zones around Taiwan.

Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan with a burden of course-correction — ‘US has lost China’

Aadil Brar -
The failure at turning the People’s Republic of China into a ‘liberal democracy’ has brought back the long shadow of the Cold War and US’ entrenchment in Asia.

Irked by Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei, China bans import of Taiwanese food products

ANI -
Beijing has also announced economic sanctions and import bans on several Taiwanese companies producing pastries, baked goods and sweets.

Why Maldives’ Nasheed vs Solih is trouble. Delhi doesn’t want to rock the boat in Indian Ocean

Jyoti Malhotra -
Delhi knows China’s favourite politician in Maldives will benefit if the political chaos spreads. Keeping the Indian Ocean democratic is a priority.

Talk of Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit has China on edge. PLA ‘preparing for war’

Aadil Brar -
The People’s Liberation Army has announced a live fire exercise off the coast of Taiwan as a show of force ahead of Nancy Pelosi’s possible visit.

BJP is remodelling India as a one-party state. And there’s a striking resemblance to China

+TFP Shruti Kapila -
Modern China gave the world capitalism without democracy. Now India looks set to give the world a one-party state in a multi-party polity.

Taiwan off the itinerary, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi begins Asia tour

Pia Krishnankutty -
This comes after a week of heightened US-China tensions and Chinese President Xi Jinping's warning to US President Joe Biden to not ‘play with fire’ over Taiwan.

Navy monitoring Chinese research vessel headed for Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port

Suchet Vir Singh -
The Yuan Wang 5 is a space-tracking ship used to monitor satellites, rockets and intercontinental ballistic missile launches. Exact purpose of its visit to Hambantota unclear.
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Prajwal Revanna case shows why and how sexual crimes by men in politics can go unchecked for years

Shubhangi Misra -
It would be a disservice to the women of Hassan to look at Prajwal Revanna’s alleged abuse of power as a ‘sex scandal’. Allegations against him show what ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ actually means.

Have Hindus passed the test by letting Droupadi Murmu enter Ram temple? Not yet

Manusmriti in a London church? 18th-century Britain’s Indomania loved everything Hindu

Economy

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Yuthika Bhargava -
Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

Defence

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

Snehesh Alex Philip -
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

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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