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Topic: China

China is a South Asian country, sharing borders with 14 countries including India. Governed by the Communist Party of China (CPC) since 1949, it has rapidly transformed into a global manufacturing hub and technological leader. Its significance lies in its economic rise in the region and hegemonic influence over smaller countries through loans and the Belt and Road Initiative.

As the epicenter of COVID-19, China faced global scrutiny over its pandemic response. Its strict zero-COVID policy and economic slowdowns have affected global markets, while trade disputes and technological restrictions with the US, EU, and India continue to shape its global relations.

China’s foreign policy is marked by its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), expanding influence through infrastructure projects, and territorial disputes, particularly in the South China Sea, Taiwan Strait, and along the India-China border. It fought a war with India in 1962 over Aksai Chin, and tensions persist along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), most recent being the Galwan Valley clash in 2020.

‘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.

‘Privileged strategic partnership with India’, US’s ‘hybrid war’  — what’s in Russia’s new foreign policy

Dishha Bagchi -
The 42-page document referred to India & China ‘friendly sovereign global centres of power’, and highlighted Moscow’s growing enmity with the West.

India, Sri Lanka, Maldives have close cooperation on security. But China can test it

Asanga Abeyagoonasekera -
In 'Teardrop Diplomacy', Asanga Abeyagoonasekera explores how a democratically elected regime turned into an autocracy within a few months.

Myanmar’s Great Coco Island near Andamans gets new military infrastructure, Chinese hand suspected

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Great Coco Island is just 55 km north of Andaman & Nicobar. Two new hangars, causeway & accommodation bloc visible in proximity to freshly lengthened runway & radar station, show satellite images.

Bhutan desperate to settle dispute with China. It will change how India looks at its north

+TFP Jyoti Malhotra -
Surely, the Bhutanese would have thought that if Delhi still hasn’t been able to resolve its dispute with Beijing, what chance did Thimphu have?
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Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries are leaning on drones, but they’re also firing cruise and ballistic missiles, some of them relatively new and experimental.

National Interest

Thank you Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of free trade and spur reform

Shekhar Gupta -
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.

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