China’s Soft Power Foray into Nepal
In a development that is bound to worry India, China looks set to open a cultural centre in Nepal. According to Chinese official news agency Xinhua, Beijing believes that the …
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China gets real, engages India to counter US
The Chinese, as Henry Kissinger pointed out in 1971, are eminently pragmatic people. They became communists when they felt that it would help to accelerate their development. They gave up …
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India honours 1962 China war martyrs
Fifty years after China defeated India in a brief but brutal war, the Indian defence establishment has finally woken up to the rites of remembrance. For the first time since …
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From RK to SRK, Bollywood forever in China
There are hardly any Indians in Haikou, the booming capital of the southern Chinese island province of Hainan, known for its sandy beaches, exotic sea food and spanking new high-rises. …
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Don’t fight, see 3 Idiots!
Singing and dancing versus kung fu and martial arts? India and China may have been projected as rivals, but where diplomacy stutters, popular culture scores. Iconic Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, …
Read MoreThe Tata factor
China has lauded Indian industrialist Ratan Tata for playing a “positive” in transforming relations between two Asian giants. “Not long ago, Ratan Tata, the chief of India’s largest private sector …
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Trade blooms, but China threat strong
Fifty years after the 1962 war, India has fashioned a pragmatic model of cooperation with China, placing economics above politics, but it has to bolster its diplomatic game and military …
Read MoreOnly 25 Per Cent Chinese Like India: Survey
In a globally connected world, perceptions of each matter, specially when it comes to more than two billion people of the two rising Asian powers who are often touted as …
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Why the China threat story sells in India
It’s the season of China-bashing in India. In bad old socialist days, the ruling party in India was quick to conjure up the “foreign hand” to distract public attention from …
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