He is Member of the National Security Advisory Board and President of the Centre for China Analysis and Strategy. He was formerly Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India.)

Contributions 
China’s Deteriorating Economy has Created Instability for Xi Jinping China’s economy is in dire straits. While assessments of China’s economic situation by foreign banks and economists is worrying, the views of some Chinese economists are even more pessimistic. They question the Chinese government’s projected ec...

Former Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s Absence Points to Discord in Senior Echelons of the CCP The decision taken by stern faced members of China’s National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) at an emergency meeting on July 25 to replace Qin Gangas Foreign Minister with his predecessor Wang Yi was very unusual. The NPCSC did not, h...

Assessment of US Secretary of State Blinken’s Two-Day Visit to China The Western media, in sharp contrast to China’s tightly controlled official media, seems to have gushed at the apparent success of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit to China on June 18-19. China’s official media, in contrast, afforded...

Xi Jinping’s Latest Campaign: ‘Theme Education’ Within months of securing a third term at the 20th Party Congress last October and successfully packing the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) with loyalists, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee (CC) General Secretary Xi Jinping launched...

Indications of Elevated Military Preparations in Tibet Monitoring developments in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) has become even more important after India's 4057-kms Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China became active along its entire length since at least May 2020, when the clash at Galwan Valley ...

VIF Briefs 
China’s New Central Military Commission China unveiled its new military leadership the day after the 20th Party Congress concluded on October 23. The composition of the new Central Military Commission (CMC), each of whose members is a hand-picked loyalist of Chinese President Xi Jinping, s...

An assessment of the Second Plenum of China’s 13th National People’s Congress .. convened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in the first fortnight of March 2019, the annual plenary sessions set the agenda for the year ahead and accorded formal approval of the entire 89 million-strong Chinese Communist Party to the pol...

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