The 13th round of the talks between the Special Representatives of India and China on the long-pending border dispute was held at New...

These are the comments made by me in response to an E-mailed query from a South-East Asian journalist on the next round of border talks...

The recent arrest of four employees of the Shanghai office of the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, has raised concerns among...

Containing, encircling and destabilizing India by a variety of alliances is not new. The United States was in it till at least the end of...

There has been an uneasy calm in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Province of China, after nearly 36 hours of bloody rioting by over...

Unfortunately, the Chinese authorities have made it a habit to shout about their hurt and righteousness, whenever their business entities...

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

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

(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...

It is not surprising that the open call given by a top Chinese military leader (‘Qiu Shi’, the theoretical organ of the Chinese...

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...

Sharing a 4000 kilometre-long disputed border with China and having suffered a military attack from China in 1962, India cannot but be...

On the current situation in Nepal, centering on the events in the Pashupatinath Temple, the following general/basic precepts should...

Three ships of the Chinese Navy—— the missile-armed destroyers “DDG-171 Haikou” and “DDG-169 Wuhan” and the supply ship “Weishanhu”— are...

While the leadership in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been very prompt in conveying (27 November 2008) its condolences to...

( This is the text of a presentation made by me at a seminar on China at New Delhi on November 27,2008. This incorporates and updates...

The recently concluded third plenary session of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (October 9-12) ended on a...

A debate is now in progress among major Asia-Pacific nations on what should be the ultimate regional security architecture; this is...