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India's China challenge: A journey through China's rise and what it means for India; Author: Ananth Krishnan; HarperCollins India; 2020; ISBN: 978-9390327683; Pp 420; Price Rs 449
Akarsh Srivastava

Introduction
“You can change your friends but not your neighbours.” This quote by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee aptly captures the theme of the book India’s China Challenge written by seasoned journalist Ananth Krishnan. Author with hi....

July 14, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , International Relations , Book Reviews , India China Relations , WTO , The Economic Challenge , Kailash-Manasarovar
Interaction with H.E. Mr. Xu Feihong, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to India

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) hosted an interaction with H.E. Mr. Xu Feihong, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to India, on 28 May 2025. The meeting was chaired by Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF and attended by Lt Gen Ra....

June 23, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Interaction , China , India China Relations , Broader issues
China Weekly Digest 1 March -15 March 2023

India-China Border: tactics, talks and Transgressions: Takshashila Institution Newsletter, March 11 2023
People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) objectives behind assertion along the LAC extended beyond mere territorial claims. Using sus....

March 15, 2023 India China Relations , China Daily Digest , China’s foreign policy , Chinese Domestic Politics , Li Qiang , Unipolar Asian Order , Xi’s Speech , Sino-U.S Relations , Chinese-style Modernization
China’s influence in Asian Geopolitics: Implications for India
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

China, in Xi Jinping’s words, is a building a “new model” of major-country relations, and crafting a policy of building relations with neighbouring countries, based on “amity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness”. Geographically speaking, C....

December 18, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , OBOR , Asia , Indian Ocean , BRI , India China Relations , China’s influence in Asian geopolitics
The Chennai Connect in Sino Indian Relations: Assessing the Second India-China informal Summit at Mamallapuram, 11-12 October 2019
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The optics of the second Sino-Indian informal summit held at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage site Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu was great. Chinese President Xi was given a warm welcome by Prime Minister M....

October 14, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , India China Relations , Modi Xi summit , Sino-India informal summit , Mamallapuram
Will DaMo help NaMo and Xi at Mahabalipuram?
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

It is strategic civilisational diplomacy at its symbolic best. Narendra Modi found that his second informal summit with Xi Jinping at Mahabalipuram in 2019 had been fixed 1,500 years ago by a prince of the Pallava dynasty, which ruled Mahabalipuram f....

October 11, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , Narendra Modi , India China Relations , Modi Xi summit
Rise of China, History, Technology, Policies: Implications for India
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

Since opening up to foreign trade and investment and implementing free market reforms in 1979, China has become the world’s fastest-growing economy. China has transformed itself from a predominantly agricultural economy into a manufacturing powerho....

October 09, 2019 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Rise of China , China 2025 , Chinese Involvement in Indian Economy , India China Relations , Monograph
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