Interview: New Delhi’s Tibet Dilemma
Xi Jinping most awaited India visit is due next week. Chennai is ready to host Chinese president, who’ll be meeting Indian Prime Minister Modi in the second informal meet, after the first one in...
Category: China
Taiwan condemns China’s ‘dictatorship’ on 70th anniversary of communist rule
Taiwan’s government condemned China’s “dictatorship” on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic, saying the country was a threat to peace and trying to find excuses for its military expansion. Defeated...
China has quietly doubled troop levels in Hong Kong
China has quietly more than doubled its deployment of mainland security forces in Hong Kong, according to foreign envoys and security analysts, in the most dramatic move yet by Beijing to prepare for a...
India & Mongolia: Across the Chinese dragon
The year 2019 marked the 64th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between India and Mongolia. [i] President Khaltmaagiin Battulga of Mongolia began his five-day State visit on 19th September, the first in...
China, a low productivity superpower?
In the space of just a few decades, China has risen to become a world and certainly an Asian regional power. And now China and the US have locked horns in a great power...
As the Sino-Bangladesh ties deepen, is India out of the game?
News clippings from Dhaka-based Benar News BenarNews (16/05/2019): “China No. 1 Foreign Investor in Bangladesh, New Official Figures Show.” [1] BenarNews (11/09/2019): “ A Chinese-built solar power plant started supplying electricity to Bangladesh’s...
Indonesia prefers Japan over China on its second rail mega-project
Indonesia intends to pick Japan as its partner in a multibillion-dollar rail link connecting Jakarta to Surabaya – crushing China’s bid to secure its second major infrastructure project on Java, Indonesia’s most populous island....
Dragon on Doorstep: Chinese Assistance in Bangladeshi Submarine Base
China will help Bangladesh construct its first submarine base, but Chinese subs will not use the facility, a leading member of parliamentary committees on foreign policy and defence told BenarNews on Thursday. The future base will...
Dragon on the Doorstep: Growing Chinese Footprints in Israel
Days ago, Israel’s Ambassador to India in a discussion held in New Delhi said, “Tel Aviv’s ties with China is moreover, economic in nature, since, China is a big market where Israeli businesses could flex...
Tale of Secret Ties: Israel & China
The secret, circuitous journey began late one night in February 1979 when an unmarked Boeing 707 took off from Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. Roughly 15 hours later, after a stop in...
