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Understanding the Complexities and Paradoxes of the Chinese Dream
Aakriti Vinayak Commentary

The oft-quoted slogan “Chinese dream” by the President Xi Jinping, which was under spotlight when it was introduced, has gained widespread attention and jitters in China and the outside world. Inside China, the Chinese dream is everywhere, on str....

December 09, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Belt and Road Initiative , Xi Jinping , Chinese Dream , CCP , COVID-19 , China's perfidy , Rejuvenation
PLA: Reading Tea Leaves1
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Any study of PLA gets hit by the wall of opacity or broad based sources, lacking as it is of military transparency and accountability. Xinhua or People’s Daily or Global Times tend to enjoy official patronage and state the official line in t....

October 26, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , CMC , CCP , LAC , Ladakh , corruption PLA , Gen Zhang Yang , peace disease , 1959 Line
Xinjiang: China’s Playground for Repressing Uyghurs
Anurag Sharma, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

“Great crimes feed on great silences. And the Uyghur today have fallen into a kind of black hole”.1

- Dilnur Reyhan, President of the European Uyghur Institute

The quote is a part of an....

September 24, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Xi Jinping , Uyghur , United States , Xinjiang , Human Rights , Uighur , Han , Kashgar , Urumqi
इस सहमति में कई पेच हैं
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

गुरुवार को भारत और चीन के विदेश मंत्रियों की मुलाकात के बाद पांच बिंदुओं का एक साझा बयान जारी कि....

September 13, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Commentary , Xi Jinping , India-China , NSA , LAC , Line of Actual Control
India-China Face Off- Has China Committed a Faux Pas?
Amb Kanwal Sibal Article

China has committed a grave error in triggering a military confrontation in Ladakh. It has underestimated the Indian resolve to stand up to its bullying tactics. Doklam should have been a warning to China that its military efforts to gain territorial....

September 09, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Xi Jinping , CCP , PLA , LAC , Ladakh , Pangong Tso , Wang Yi , economic front , military conflict , Defence Ministers meeting
Floods in China: Yet another critical test for Xi Jinping
Dr Teshu Singh Article

Floods in China are an annual phenomenon. This year’s flood comes at the time when China is already battling the COVID-19 which has hit 27 out of 31 provinces of China. Since June, torrential rain in China has broken all records. It is the most dev....

August 07, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , Disaster , PLA , Li Keqiang , COVID-19 , Three Gorges Dam , Yangtze River , Floods , Black Swan
India’s Chinese Conundrum
Vivek Sugandh Article

“China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world” (Xinran, 2011). This quote, attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte acknowledges the unprecedented change the rise of China will bring about in the world. In the fiel....

July 28, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Xi Jinping , Doklam , Galwan valley , Atmanirbhar Bharat , expansionism
Beijing’s New National Security Law: What it means for Hong Kong?
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

A resurgent China seeking a pie in every corner in the world has chosen to pursue a ruthless policy of expanding its global footprint by cajoling, coercion, policy of economic domination (read BRI), infringing on another country’s territorial sover....

July 14, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Donald Trump , Xi Jinping , Taiwan , Senkaku Islands , New national security law , Basic Law , mini-constitution , Antony Dapiran , The Hague , Mike Pompeo , Emmanuel Macron , Abe Shinzo , Carrie Lam , Xiao Jianhua , Lee Bo , Simon Chesterman
China’s Strategy to Overcome the Virus Stigma is “Belligerence”
Praveen Menon Article

On June 15 2020, Col. B Santosh Babu probably didn’t expect to walk up to a Chinese observation post at the vertex of the bend in Galwan River. It was strange because the PLA themselves had dismantled the post after the talks few days back. A sense....

July 11, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , China , Xi Jinping , COVID-19 , Col. Santosh Babu , belligerence , wolf warriors , Gen. Zhao Zongqi
An Assessment of China’s 13th National People’s Congress – May 2020’
Jayadeva Ranade Article

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