The “Global Times” is a a tabloid brought out by the “People’s Daily” group, which is controlled by the Communist Party of China.It...

(To be read with Chennai Centre for China Studies, www.c3sindia.org paper No.285 dated 11 June 2009) Beijing’s official response to the...

The foundation for the construction of a modern port with Chinese assistance at Hambantota in southern Sri Lanka was formally laid in...

There is a need to draw up new assessments because the international environment will undergo major changes in the near term Though the...

Latest state-controlled media articles in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) indicate a hardening of Beijing’s position on the...

It is said that India and China are ‘cultural twins’ from the same cradle- the cradle of trans-Himalayan region; Ramipithecus, the ape...

During the US Presidential primaries last year, I had expressed my misgivings that Barack Obama might turn out to be another Jimmy...

There has been a lot of discussion going on for the last 12 hours or more in the pro-Hindutva web sites in India and abroad about the...

While the official results in the elections to the Lok Sabha, the lower House of the Indian Parliament, are yet to be announced, it is...

Till the successful conclusion of the Beijing Olympics in August,2008, China projected to the international community its benign face as...

Pakistan has always been an issue between China and the USA. During the cold war all the three formed a tri-lateral alliance to counter...

For most of the nine months of the coalition government in Nepal, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the dominant component, single...

(Comments contributed by me to a futuristic study being made by a US think-tank ) (1). Both India and China started in the 1950s as...

China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee is currently deliberating a new law on “National Defence Mobilization”. The...

In a televised address to the nation on the afternoon of May 4,2009, the Maoist Prime Minister of Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, popularly...

The civil disobedience movement launched by the Tibetans living in the Kardze area of the Sichuan province continues. Local Tibetan...

To understand the role of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in South Asia, a study of its overall strategic vision at each historical...

(To be read with C3S Paper No.256 dated 12 March 2009) Undeniably, there are growing signs of a thaw in the Mainland China – Taiwan...

Two important and emotional ( for the Tibetans) anniversaries have passed off without any reports of violent incidents in the...

“There is a common interest in the US as well as in China in maintaining and strengthening the present economic linkages without letting...