Explainer: Why is China’s rare earths ‘model’ not easy to break or replicate
Deng Xiaoping, the second most popular leader after Mao in post-1949 China and known as the “chief architect” of modern China for having launched...
‘Amazing’ handshake fails to amaze markets as Xi unamused by Trump’s G2 offer
It is indeed known that the United States and China have been locked in an economic war. All possibilities of a further “pause” agreement...
China accused of preventing the new LDP leader Takaichi from becoming Japanese PM
When Sanae Takaichi was elected the first woman president of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party early this month, she was also expected to be...
Nearly a month after Wang Yi’s assurance, no sign of end to China drought of rare earths to India
On Tuesday, August 19, the entire Indian media citing authoritative sources claimed that following a meeting between the visiting Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi...
India Must Define Its Own Position in the Great Power Contest
A Chinese scholar who is a veteran media professional living in Germany for the past decade and focuses on Germany and EU in comparison...
How a faster than expected US decline is a cause for worry in China?
Something rather unusual happened this April. CSIS, a Washington-based leading US think tank on foreign affairs, suggested in an article its website carried on...
Trilateral Diplomacy: East Asia’s Response to U.S. Tariff Pressures
Undoubtedly, Trump’s “tariffs” shock wave is being viewed as the key driving factor behind the March 2025 trilateral ministerial gathering of China, Japan, and...
DeepSeek, Mandarin and Alphabet?
Worried for the future of China, the most influential and popular modern Chinese writer, essayist and thinker Lu Xun (1881-1936) dared his fellow Chinese...
Russia-China Relations: Can Trump create a Wedge between Moscow and Beijing?
It follows that in the aftermath of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine in February 2022, as the West “attempted to ‘cancel’ Russia by...
Whither India-China Relations?
In April 1924, standing next to a lifelike statue of an Indian Buddhist monk in Hangzhou, Tagore promised to the Chinese people saying: “We...