Articles

Xi Jinping’s New Slogan of Common Prosperity is Worrying People

‘Common Prosperity’ has become the new buzzword in the People's Republic of China since August 2021. The term provokes varying emotions ranging from fear and apprehension to a sense that the government is finally addressing the rising Gini coeffi....

November 09, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , CCP , Cultural Revolution , common prosperity

China’s Communist Party Revises its History yet again in time for use by Xi Jinping

Jayadeva Ranade Article

History and the power of the narrative have always been important to authoritarian regimes. Communist regimes have elevated their importance by using them to indoctrinate entire generations with sanitised versions of events authorised by those in pow....

April 29, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Article , Xi Jinping , CCP , Cultural Revolution , Deng Xiaoping , Mao Zedong , Great Leap Forward , Tiananmen Square

Chinese Intelligence : From a Party Outfit to Cyber Warriors

Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

Whatever yardstick we choose to apply – size of the economy and its rate of growth, military hardware and pace of modernisation, stability of the polity and the government; size, population and geo-political setting – China qualifies for a major....

July 03, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Chinese Intelligence , Cyber Warriors , Cultural Revolution