India-China Relations: A Decade of Escalating Border Dispute in the Himalayas, 2013-2023
It is not entirely wrong to link escalating border disputes in the Himalayas between India and China to the gradually intensifying US policy to...
Washington Gears Up to Take on China, Russia, and Iran at the Same Time
Calling President Biden a Cold War “warrior,” Chinese IR experts, by citing Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last August and the recent US decision to...
China’s Zero-COVID U-Turn Lands the Country in Chaos: “Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t!”
For almost three years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, the international media consistently decried China’s zero-COVID strategy as “punishing”...
The Tawang Clash: Chinese Media, Scholars say it is an “advantage to Beijing”
The world’s failure to “transform” China into a liberal polity following the communist nation’s “economic miracle” during the past four decades, is attributed to...
Olaf Scholz was in Beijing, is it Germany’s big bet on China or the other way around?
The visit of German chancellor Olaf Scholz to China this month generated mixed reactions, generally unsupportive, across European capitals as also in Washington. Within...
Xi’s 3rd ‘Mandate of Heaven’ Forces New Delhi to Reassess ‘Dragon Threat’
Critics maintain seeking to strengthen a strategic partnership with the US has been the cornerstone of Indian geopolitical thinking in recent years. Beijing might...
War in Ukraine and the New Delhi-Beijing geopolitical shadowboxing
India and China have separately frustrated and angered many in the West by refusing to condemn Russia’s military action on February 24. The two...
2022: Xi Jinping’s Annus Horribilis or Annus Mirabilis?
At the end of his first 5-year term, Xi is said to have tricked the party elites into letting him “hijack” power beyond two...
Is ‘NATO-ization’ of Finland the end of ‘Finlandization’ in Europe?
The brutal Russia-Ukraine war threatening to go on for “as long as it takes” is believed to be why Finland and Sweden sought NATO...
Did China place a losing bet on Russia?
Early in the Russia-Ukraine war, having placed the bet on Vladimir Putin, China was declared by most international analysts as among the war’s biggest losers....