Beijing seems as normal as ever. Widespread rumours disseminated by Chinese microblogs about a tussle for power and even an attempted...

The 5th Session of China’s 11th National People’s Congress (NPC), known as the country’s parliament, had much to reveal on the sidelines...

The state-owned Xinhua News Agency of China announced on March 15,2012, shortly after the end of the annual session of the National...

(Prepared for writer’s intervention during the session on “Strategy & Security Imperatives” at the seminar on “India & China: The Way...

The unrest in the minority-inhabited areas of the Tibetan belt and the Xinjiang province of China continues unabated. 2. While the...

According to Radio Free Asia, funded by the US State Department, Zhu Mingguo,deputy leader of the Guangdong provincial Government in...

Last month, Chinese Academy of Social Science published a survey which can be openly accessed; proclaiming that more than 40% of Chinese...

One need not be surprised by the regional and global nervousness over the death of Kim Jong-Il, the ruler of North Korea,  following a...

The famous Austrian aphorist, satirist and scholar, Karl Kraus wrote several decades ago, “Corruption is worse than prostitution. The...

The Chinese leadership has been unnerved by the persisting and spreading protest of the people of Wukan, a fishing village ( population...

July 19, 2005: Kai-Fu Lee, a well-known Chinese computer expert working for Microsoft in the US, crossed over into Google to help it...

On December 9, 2011, Radio Free Asia, funded by the US State Department, disseminated a report attributed to the Agence France Presse...

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently announced their creation of a new department called the “Strategic Planning  Department”...

The People’s Republic of China has always been cautious about aggressively engaging an adversary militarily. It is not to say that they...

The 6th plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee (CC) of the Chine Communist Party (CCP) (Beijing, October 15-17) revealed its...

I. What explains China’s hypnotic spell? There is an unceasing flood of academic and journalist writings, as also seminars and workshops,...

The growing concerns of the Communist Party of China (CPC) over the destabilising potential of social media networks were reflected...

Forty years back Henry Kissinger  the intellectual Secy.of State under Nixon was sent by the latter  to explore the possibility of...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) and its leaders headed by President Hu Jintao are less nervous about the likely impact of memories of...

The politburo of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held a meeting in Beijing on September 25 on cultural reforms, presided over by Party...