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Sunday, August 31, 2025
TopicIndia-China relations

Topic: India-China relations

India-China ties — improvement signs are loud, problems sliding under the radar

Do India and China share a strategic or geopolitical alignment? Are there signs of improving relations in this aspect? Yet again, the evidence points in the other direction.

China is enjoying the strain in India-US ties and Trump cosying up to Pakistan

In Chinese discourse, India is portrayed as playing both sides, indecisive, and lacking strategic coherence, a “fence-sitter” unable to secure the confidence of either Washington or Beijing.

India is showing signs of trusting China again. Beijing sees a window of weakness

India’s episodic tactical pivots towards better ties with China to enhance its bargaining position vis-à-vis the US are not new or unfamiliar.

India’s ‘triple anxiety’—What Chinese media sees in Jaishankar’s Beijing visit

Chinese perspective underestimates the nuance of Indian foreign policy, which is shaped by strategic interests, not submission, appeasement, or fear.

‘Continued normalisation of ties can lead to mutually beneficial outcomes’—Jaishankar in Beijing

External affairs minister is on 2-day visit to China, his first since 2020 Galwan clashes. He’s set to meet Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi before going to Tianjin for SCO meet.

NSA Ajit Doval meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing discusses bilateral ties

Doval emphasised the need to counter terrorism in all its forms and manifestations to maintain overall peace and stability in the region following the recent India-Pakistan conflict.

Dance of elephant, dragon is the only right choice for India and China, says Chinese FM Wang Yi

In remarks Friday, Chinese foreign minister urged New Delhi to deepen cooperation with Beijing and to not let boundary issues impact overall ties. China is amidst a trade war with the US.

China’s strategy is working—India’s neighbours are drifting away

India knows that it cannot expect help from external powers in managing its neighbourhood. Without improved ties, its strategic threats will only pose greater security risks.

Why India needs to take its ties with China ‘sincerely’ & the inconvenience of US indictment of Adani

Global media, however, acknowledges that India does indeed face a Chinese threat. It also notes that controversy surrounding Adani Group creates problems for India’s own domestic growth.

As India & China’s LAC talks gathered pace, so did Chinese envoy’s India push on social media

Since the arrival of Ambassador Xu Feihong, the Chinese embassy has increasingly promoted India-China synergies on social media, including pressing New Delhi on policies.

On Camera

From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.